Minutes of the Undergraduate Studies Committee - 3/12/2013
Attending Voting Members: J. Twombly (SSB), G. Fasshauer (AMAT), S. Ahua
(SGA), E-J Lee (PSYC), S. Sennott (ARCH), M. Safar (INTM), S. Tin (MMAE), P.
Troyk (BME), B. Koehr (ROTC), J. Budiman (CAEE), K. Spink (BIOL), Y. Torun
(PHYS), M. Tanner (CHEM), M. Beckman (CS), J. Saniie (ECE)
Also attending: G. Welter (UGAA), M. Lopez (One Stop), G. Smith (UGAA), J.
Dorr (Galvin).
Absent departments: HUMA, SSCI, CHBE, ITM, MSED
The meeting is chaired by Matt Bauer.
Documents pertaining to this meeting are here:
http://www.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/
Adjourn: 1:42 p.m. Minutes recorded by Bauer.
Chair notes there is a quorum at 12:47 p.m.
Minutes of 2/26/2013 meeting are approved unanimously.
Old business
1) Co-Terminal Degree UGSC Approval Process - Moved and seconded: That new
co-terminal degree programs become informational items to the UGSC, if the
relevant individual academic units have approved the programs.
Much discussion on pros and cons of UGSC reviewing or not reviewing.
Possible change in federal government aid for students in coterminal
programs, more info being gathered.
MOTION FAILED 2 for, 13 against
New Business
2) (Bauer) - BS in CS and MS in IPMM co terminal, BS in CS and MS in AMAT co
terminal
http://www.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/BS_CS_MS_AMAT.doc
http://www.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/BS_CS_%20MS_IPMM.doc
Both discussed and will be brought back in the future with corrections.
3) TABLED (Pulliam) CS Communications coterminal MS InfoArch
http://www.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/DHBSMSIArch_Revision5.docx
4) TABLED Discontinuation of "Social Sciences" major (Information Item) - On
February 20, 2013, the Department of Social Sciences faculty voted at its
monthly meeting to discontinue offering the interdisciplinary major known as
"Social Sciences", effective immediately.
Social Science dept and Human Sciences college should reference appendix P
in the faculty handbook on the process
http://www.iit.edu/general_counsel/policies/faculty_handbook/pdfs/appendix_p
6) TABLED (Pulliam) Interdisciplinary degrees - how to create and administer
7) INFO ITEM (Orze) Minimum requirements for admission into the co-terminal
degree program and triple counting courses.
1. In order to be considered for admission into a co-terminal degree
program, students must have earned a minimum of 36 semester hours including
at least 12 semester hours earned in residence at IIT with a minimum
cumulative GPA of 3.25.
2. Students may not use courses completed and applied to dual
undergraduate degree programs to fulfill co-terminal degree requirements.
Issues was raised with joint program students, it seems currently they are
not allowed to do coterminal as each joint degree needs legal agreement
between universities.
8) TABLED (Bauer) General Education assessment plan for accreditation
More research needed on NCA requirements
Adjourn.