Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

12:45 p.m.  On-line via Zoom Platform

Meeting Minutes

Attending Voting Members: F. Weening (AMAT), C. Wetzel (ARCH), E. Corradi (CAEE), S. Hong (CHBE), C. Hood (CS), E. Oruklu (ECE), K. Krishnamurthy (FDSN), C. Wark (MMAE), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS), R. Klaszky (ROTC), J. Twombly (SSB), P. Ireland (SSCI).

Also attending: J. Alexis (ID), G. Smith (UGAA), M. Lopez (Academic Affairs), A. Matari-Renno (Registrar's Office), N. Novak (Galvin), G. Pulliam (CAC), F. Estrada (Admissions), Toni Riley (Admissions), MJ Sullivan (ELS), B. Stephens (CAEE), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), M. Haynes (UGAA), P. Houser (INTM), A. Lagunas (Registrar).

Department with absent voting members: BIOL, BME, CHEM, HUM, PSYC, ITM, SGA.

Documents for this meeting are available at: <https://www5.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/2020-2021/>.

Meeting chaired by Kathryn Spink.

Minutes recorded by Greg Pulliam.

Quorum declared at: 12:47 p.m.

Adjourn at: 1:50 p.m.

1. Approval of the minutes for November 24, 2020.

         The minutes were approved by acclimation..

2.  Information item: ECE Curriculum Update (Oruklu).

3.  Information item: Curriculum Changes from CAEE (Corradi).

4.  Information item:INTM Curriculum update (Houser).

5. Design minor waiver (Alexis). Discussion of waiving the restriction on double-counting a course for both a major and a minor. Tentative language: "Students may count 3 credit hours of major requirements for the design minor."

Chair asks members to return to departments for discussion.

6. Add/Drop date discussion (Lagunas). No action is immiment due to COVID, but the possibility of decoupling the add deadline from the drop deadline came up. The Add deadline would be 1 week to ten days after the first class, while the drop deadline could be later.

7. Discussion: (Gorzkowski, Smith) Online-only course credit from American Council on Education (ACE) approved courses offered by Straighter Line, Study.com, Sophia.org and others--mostly lower-level core curriculum courses. Chair asks members to return to departments for discussion.

8.  Information item: New Undergraduate Business Specialization in Technological Entrepreneurship (Twombley).

9. Chair's CIM queue discussion--most of the principals had previously left the meeting.

Adjourn.