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

    Foundations of Economics

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.