Undergraduate Studies Committee
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
12:45 p.m. In-Person (PS 129) and On-line via Zoom Platform
Meeting Minutes
Voting Members Attending In-Person: R. Trygstad (ITM), J. Twombly (SSB), F. Weening (AMAT).
Voting Members Attending via Zoom: C. Wetzel (ARCH), Y. Lin (BIOL), B. Glavic (CS), E. Oruklu (ECE), M. Mural (MMAE), V. Perez-Luna (CHBE), N. Legate (PSYC), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS), K. Krishnamurthy (FSN), E. Hazard (HUM), G. Papivasiliou (BME), K. Leight (CHEM), S. Kleps (CAEE).
Also Attending In-Person: G. Smith (UGAA), C. Himes (LCSL), S. Okai (LCSL), N. Menhart (BIOL/VP Accreditation).
Also Attending via Zoom: M. Haynes (UGAA), K. Hawkins (AMP), Z. Robinson (Academic Success), K. Cassel (ACE), P. Houser (INTM), M. Gray (CDR), N. Novak (Libraries), M. Jorgensen Sulllivan (ELS).
Departments with absent voting members: ROTC, SSCI, SGA.
Documents for this meeting are available at: <https://ugsc.iit.edu/documents/2021-2022/>.
Meeting chaired by Kathryn Spink.
Minutes recorded by Greg Pulliam.
Quorum declared at 12:50 p.m.
Adjourn at: 1:48 p.m.
1. Approval of the minutes for September 14, 2021: The minutes were approved by unanimous consent.
2. Information item: The chair encourages all present to attnd October 20 12:30 p.m. full faculty meeting, either in MTCC auditorium or via Zoom. The meeting is regarding the status and voting rights of teaching faculty.
3. Information item: “P” designation awareness. The chair notes that this designation is for online courses that require students to be present for at least one in-person exam.
4. Dual Degree and Double-Major Policy Proposal (Menhart)
This proposal will supersede/sidestep the Faculty Handbook’s Appendix P, which requires dual-degree and double-major program to follow the standard faculty approval process for new programs. This proposal will be voted on at the next UGSC meeting.
5. Two CHEM programs are going to hiatus (Leight):
a. BS in Computational Chemisty and Biochemistry
b. BS in Bioanalytical Chemsity
Approved by unanimous consent.
6. BIO/FDSN sequence for the Core Curriculum science requirement (Spink/Twombly). Bulletin language:
Two sequential natural science or enginering courses in a single field.
i. CHEM 124 with MS 201 satisfies this requirement
ii. BIOL (N) with FDSN (N) satisfies this requirement.
Approved by unanimous consent.
7. Major/Minor Report Discussion Continued (Trygstad).
That report is here. The five-year rotation at the end of the document will be put into action this year unless academic units object. Reps should take this back to their units. Also, going forward, all degree program curriculum changes coming to the UGSC must show the currently proposed change/s plus any and all changes made in the preceding two academic years.
8. Information item: IAI status update will be delivered at the next UGSC meeting (Spink).
Adjourn