Undergraduate Studies Committee
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
12:45 p.m. On-line via Zoom Platform
Meeting Minutes
Attending Voting Members: D. Maslanka (AMAT), J. Twombly (SSB), R. Trygstad (ITM), K. Nagle (ARCH), E. Hazard (HUM), S. Kleps (CAEE), B. Glavic (CS), P. Dhar (BME), Y. Mansury (SSCI), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS), K. Leight (CHEM), Y. Lin (BIOL), R. Klaszky (ROTC), K. Krishnamurthy (FDSN), R. Keating (PSYC), V. Perez-Luna (CHBE), M. Vural (MMAE).
Also Attending: J. Orgel (VPAA), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), M.J. Sullivan (ELS), N. Novak (Libraries), G. Smith (UGAA), A. McGrath (Enrollment Services), D. Fifles (Accreditation), K. Hawkins (AMP), N. Menhart (CCAC). J. Johnson (UGAA), D. Bliss (UFC), M. Haynes (UGAA), G. Papavasiliou (ACE), M. Sundharam (Enrollment & Student Affairs), A. Qamer (Registrar), L. Wegman (SSB/CSL), K. Christensen VPAA/Interim Provost), E. Kultermann (ARCH), R. Calia (SSB).
Units with absent voting members: ECE, SGA.
Documents for this and all 2022-23 meetings are available at: <https://www5.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/2022-2023/>.
Meeting chaired by Fred Weening.
Minutes recorded by Greg Pulliam.
Quorum declared at 12:44 p.m.
Adjourn at: 1:43 p.m.
1. Minutes from 11/22/2022 and minutes from 1/17/2023 special meeting are both approved by unanimous consent.
2. Continuation of discussion regarding the proposed new BS in Cloud Computing and co-terminal pairing (Trygstad). UGSC votes to approve the program 15-0.
3. Changes to Bachelors of Architecture program (Kultermann). This item will be voted on at the next UGSC meeting.
4. New SSB Certificates in
● Quantitative Methods for Business
(Twombly). These items will be voted on at the next UGSC meeting.
5. Accelerated BS-Ph.D Chemistry proposal (Leight). There are issues--some administrative--which need to be worked out. K. Leight and J. Orgel will meet to work on these. Vote to come in a future UGSC meeting.
6. Posthumous Degree Policy (Gorzkowski). Information item--does not require a vote.
Adjourn.