Attending Voting Members: S. Hong (CHBE), F. Weening (AMAT), A. Moller (PSYC), E. Hazard (HUM), N. Menhart (BIO), J. Twombly (SSB), R. Trygstad (SAT), R. Guan (CHEM), G. Popovic (MSED), C. Adams (ROTC), S. Argamon (CS), D. Bliss (SSCI).

Also attending: G. Smith (UGAA), N. Novak (Galvin Library), S. O’Leary (UGAA), M. Lopez (Academic Affairs), R. Ellis (CoS), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), U. Segerstrale (SSCI), J. Rosenberg (SSCI).

Absent Departments::SGA, ECE, CAEE, BME, ARCH

Documents for this meeting are available at: http://www.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/2018-2019/
Meeting chaired by Greg Pulliam
Minutes recorded by Gorjana Popovic
Quorum declared at: 12:47 pm
Adjourn at: 1: 25 PM

1. Minutes of the 11/13/2018 meeting.

Approved unanimously with amendment (deletion of M. AWL (AFROTC) from attending members list.

New Business

2.  New BS in Science, Technology & Society (Rosenberg, Segerstrale, Bliss).

• Power point presentation
• Internship
  • Social Science 493 – internship and significant amount of academic work
  • It is not mandatory, but optional
• Provost asked faculty to reduce the number of programs and degrees offered
  • This program will replace some of the programs that are not popular any more
• Pre-med minor may be one of the minors added to the program
• The list of minors added were programs that can be completed within the duration of the program, and some other minors would require at least one more semester and thus were not considered
• Could research methods course be from the humanities? (Yes)
• The minor controlling authorities can make substitutions within the minor programs
• There are students who complete a substantial number of courses in certain area, but those courses do not add up to any existing minor. But perhaps new minor could be created to support student interest.
• Include rules within the proposal itself for what will be considered for STEM minor

3.  Other new business

• N course criteria proposed; there is E committee working on similar thing…
• It was brought up again that the people who are on the committees for each designation (C, H, S, N, E, and perhaps create designation M for math) are supposed to meet and develop criteria for each