Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

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

Special Meeting Minutes

Attending Voting Members:  G. Popovich (AMAT), J. Twombly (SSB), R. Trygstad (ITM), K. Nagle (ARCH), E. Hazard (HUM), S. Kleps (CAEE), P. Dhar (BME), K. Leight (CHEM), Y. Lin (BIOL), R. Klaszky (ROTC), V. Perez-Luna (CHBE), M. Vural (MMAE), E. Oruklu (ECE), Y. Mansury (SSCI), J. Thomas (SGA).

Also Attending: J. Orgel (VPAA), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), N. Novak (Libraries), G. Smith (UGAA), A. McGrath (Enrollment Services), D. Fifles (Accreditation), K. Hawkins (AMP),  J. Johnson (UGAA), M. Haynes (UGAA), G. Papavasiliou (ACE), L. Wegman (SSB/CSL), R. Calia (SSB), C. Lee (Registrar). S. Okhai (LCSL), J. Mohammadi (Graduate College), Z. Robinson (Academic Success).

Units with absent voting members: CS, FDSN, PHYS, PSYC.

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 12:45 p.m. 

Adjourn at: 1:15 p.m.

1. Minutes from 2/14/2023 meeting approved by unanimous consent.

2. New discussion on Certificates in          (Twombly)

● Finance

● Foundations of Economics

First reading. Vote to come in 2-28-2023 meeting.

3. New program:                                        (Twombly)

● BS in Business and Engineering

First reading. Vote to come in 2-28-2023 meeting.

4. Information item (Orgel): Administration policy is that changing a program's name/title or its C.I.P. code does not make it a new program that needs full re-processing (including C.I.M. processing).

Adjourn.