Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

12:45 p.m.  On-line via Zoom Platform

Meeting Minutes

Attending Voting Members: F. Weening (AMAT), Y. Lin (BIOL), P. Troyk (BME), E. Corradi (CAEE), S. Hong (CHBE), R. Guan (CHEM), C. Hood (CS), E. Oruklu (ECE), K. Krishnamurthy (FDSN), E. Hazard (HUM), C. Wark (MMAE), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS), J. Miller (PSYC), J. Twombly (SSB), P. Ireland (SSCI).

Also attending: C. Emmons (Assessment), M. Haynes (UGAA), G. Smith (UGAA), M. Lopez (Academic Affairs), N. Novak (Galvin), G. Pulliam (CAC), T. McGee (ELS), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), A. Matari-Renno (Registrar), A. Patelidas (Registrar), C. Himes (LCSL Dean) , P. Houser (INTM).

 

Department with absent voting members: ARCH, ITM, ROTC, 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: 12:45 p.m.

Adjourn at: 1:49 p.m.

 

1. Approval of the minutes for February 23, 2020.  The minutes were approved by acclamation.

 

2.  Discussion: Change to policy on credit hours for minors (Spink). There appears to be a developing consensus for considering a change to our minimum requirement of 15 credit hours for a minor--perhaps lowering the number to 12 hours. Discussion to continue.

  

3.  Discussion: Uncoupling the Add and Drop deadlines in order to shorten the Add deadline. The registrar asked for anecdotal evidence from faculty about students who added late and may have struggled or excelled. Tabled.

 

4.  Discussion: Should we extend the waiver of advisor permission for online courses through the Fall 2021 term? Committee agrees to extend the waiver without objection.

 

5. Discussion: Accelerated 6-week (undergraduate humanities) courses running concurrent to regular semester schedule—UFC-established protocols for introducing new course formats have apparently been ignored. Additionally, the UGSC required advisor permission for winter break (so-called “J-Term”) courses, and discussed requiring that for other, non-traditional course formats as well.  To be continued.

 

6. The chair may have required jury duty when the March 23 UGSC meeting comes around. If so, Vice-chair Weening will serve as meeting chair.

 

Adjourn.