Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

12:45 p.m. On-line via Zoom Platform

Meeting Minutes

Attending Voting Members:  D. Maslanka (AMAT), J. Twombly (SSB), R. Trygstad (ITM), E. Kultermann (ARCH), E. Hazard (HUM), A. Sandhu (FDSN), N. Legate (PSYC), M. Vural (MMAE), S. Kleps (CAEE), V. Perez-Luna (CHBE), R. Klasky (ROTC), B. Glavic (CS), P. Dhar (BME), Y. Mansury (SSCI), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS), K. Leight (CHEM).

Also Attending: J. Orgel (VPAA), G. Pulliam (CAC), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), G. Papavasiliou (ACE), M.J. Sullivan (ELS), N. Gallardo (Registrar), N. Novak (Galvin), Z. Robinson (Academic Success), G. Smith (UGAA), A. McGrath (Enrollment Services), K. Spink (CCAC), D. Fifles (Accreditation), M. Jones (Armour Academy), J. DeWinter (CSL), S. Okhai (CSL), C. Lee (Registrar), M. Lopez (AA), G. Martinez (Armour Academy), R. Calia (SSB), A. Qamer (Registrar), K. Hawkins (AMP), M. Sundharam (Enrollment & Student Affairs), L. Wagman (SSB).

Units with absent voting members: BIOL, ECE, SGA.

Documents for this and all 2021-22 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 12:46 p.m. 

Adjourn at: 1:43 p.m.

1.   Approval of minutes from 10/11/2022:  The minutes were approved by unanimous consent.

2. Three new Stuart School of Business degree programs and one revision (Twombly):

· Bachelor of Science in Finance

· Bachelor of Science in Financial Economics

· Bachelor of Science in Marketing Analytics

· Revision to the current Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

         All were approved by unanimous consent.

3.   Periodic Review for the Humanities and Digital Humanities degree programs (G. Pulliam). Accepted by the UGSC via unanimous consent.

4.   Proposal to bring back the NA grade as an option for final grades (J. Gorzkowski). Significant discussion and suggested amendments. This will come back to the UGSC for action at a subsequent meeting.     

5.   Information item (Weening): Pulliam will be stepping down as UGSC secretary at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. He’s willing to train his successor.  The chair calls for volunteer/s and notes that the UGSC secretary need not be a voting member of this committee.

6. Advisory question from E. Kulterman about D grades.

7. Significant discussion (advanced by D. Maslanka) about whether there should be more university guidance on the awarding of Incomplete grades. AA will get faculty and committee input and will consider making changes.

Adjourn.