Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

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

Meeting Minutes

Attending Voting Members: F. Weening (AMAT), J. Twombly (SSB), R. Trygstad (ITM), C. Wetzel (ARCH), B. Glavic (CS), E. Hazard (HUM), V. Perez-Luna (CHBE), K. Leight (CHEM), R. Klaszky (ROTC), K. Krishnamurthy (FDSN), N. Legate (PSYC), S. Kleps (CAEE), E. Oruklu (ECE).

Also Attending: S. Okhai (LCSL), N. Menhart (BIOL/VP Accreditation), G. Pulliam (CAC), K. Hawkins (AMP), Z. Robinson (Academic Success), P. Houser (INTM), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), C. Himes (LCSL), Melisa Lopez (AA), M. Haynes (UGAA), A. Patelidas (Registrar), T. McGee (ELS), J. Orgel (VP UGAA), G. Smith (UGAA), E. Kultermann (ARCH), K. Guyton-Hamlin (Registrar's Office).

Departments with absent voting members: BIOL, BME, MMAE, PHYS, SSCI, SGA. 

Documents for this meeting are available at: <https://www5.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/2021-2022/>.

Meeting chaired by Kathryn Spink.

Minutes recorded by Greg Pulliam.

Quorum declared at 12:47 p.m. 

Adjourn at: 1:43 p.m.

1. Approval of minutes from 2/8/2022:  The minutes were approved by unanimous consent.

     2. Dual Degree Proposal in Biochemistry/Medicinal Chemistry (Leight). Approved by unanimous consent.

     3. ARCH Program's math minimum requirement to be reduced from 6 to 5 hours, and overall ARCH bachelor's program minimum hours reduced from 169 to 168. (Wetzel, Kultermann). Approved by unanimous consent.

     4. Information item: INTM Curriculum Updates (Houser).  (Since last HLC visit in 2016, INTM have changed only 6 credit hours of core requirements; all other changes have been elective.)

5. Information item: CIP Code Change for Applied Analytics (Legate). CIP refers to US Education Department's Classification of Instructional Programs.

     6. Information item: ECE Curriculum Changes (Oruklu).

     7. Discussion item: Intensive Courses  (Himes) There is a preliminary sense that UG accelerated courses should require advisor permission. Voting reps to take back to AUs for further discussion.

     8. Discussion item: Permit requirement for UG into online sections (Spink) Voting reps to take back to AUs for further discussion.

     Adjourn.