Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, November 8, 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), N. Legate (PSYC), M. Vural (MMAE), S. Kleps (CAEE), V. Perez-Luna (CHBE), B. Glavic (CS), P. Dhar (BME), Y. Mansury (SSCI), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS), K. Leight (CHEM), E. Oruklu (ECE), Y. Lin (BIOL), I. Edirisinghe (FDSN).

Also Attending: J. Orgel (VPAA), G. Pulliam (CAC), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), 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), K. Hawkins (AMP), F. Suarez, K. Guyton-Hamlin, N. Menhart (CCAC). J. Johnson (UGAA), D. Bliss (UFC), M. Haynes (UGAA), J. Mohammadi (GSC).

Units with absent voting members: ROTC, 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 12:48 p.m. 

Adjourn at: 1:49 p.m.

1. Approval of minutes from 10/25/2022:  The minutes were approved by unanimous consent.

2. Biology department discontinuing 2 co-terminal programs: BS Biology/Master of Biology and BS Biochemistry/Master of Biology with Biochemistry specialization. (Y. Lin) UGSC gives unanimous consent for Biology department to proceed.

3. Periodic program review for BS in Communication, a program with four specializations: General, PTC, Science Journalism, and Technology & Business Journalism (G. Pulliam). UGSC accepts report by unanimous consent.

4. Return of the NA grade (J. Gorzkowski): amended proposal is approved 14-1 with stipulation that the final sentence be removed from the proposed Bulletin copy describing the NA grade.

5. Core Curriculum Assessment Committee reports on assessment of N (natural science/engineering) courses (K. Spink) and CS (computer science) courses (N. Menhart). The committee accepts by unanimous consent.

6. A heads-up from J. Orgel about an item coming soon to our committee.