Undergraduate Studies Committee
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
12:45 p.m. On-line via Zoom Platform
Meeting Minutes
Attending Voting Members: D. Maslanka (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), V. Perez-Luna (CHBE), M. Vural (MMAE), Y. Mansury (SSCI), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS), B. Glavic (CS)
Also Attending: J. Orgel (VPAA), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), N. Novak (Libraries), G. Smith (UGAA), D. Fifles (Accreditation), K. Hawkins (AMP), J. Johnson (UGAA), M. Haynes (UGAA), L. Wegman (SSB/CSL), R. Calia (SSB), C. Lee (Registrar), S. Okhai (LCSL), J. Mohammadi (Graduate College), Z. Robinson (Academic Success), N. Menhart (CCAC), M.J. Sullivan (ELS), J. deWinter (LCSL), K. Roark (Digital Learning), K. Ong (AMAT), M. Jones (Armour Academy), G. Martinez (Armour Academy), N. Gallardo (Registrar).
Units with absent voting members: ECE, FDSN, PSYC, 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 12:46 p.m.
Adjourn at: 1:35 p.m.
1. Minutes from 2/21/2023 meeting approved by unanimous consent.
2. Continued discussion on certificates in (Twombly)
● Finance
Both approved 11-0.
3. Continued discussion on new program (Twombly):
● BS in Business and Engineering
Approved 13-0.
4. Revision to the BS in Financial Economics (Twombly) Non-significant revision.
5. Small revisions in (Kleps)
● BS-CE Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
● BS-ARCE Bachelor of Science in Architecture Engineering
Non-significant revisions.
6. Incubator Proposal (Orgel) Approved 11-0.
7. Common Core Assessment Subcommittee (Menhart)
● Report on town-hall meeting on N learning objectives and suggested revision.
● Revision to Math learning objectives
First readings of each. To be voted on at the next UGSC meeting.
Adjourn.