Undergraduate Studies Committee
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
12:45 p.m. Online 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), E. Oruklu (ECE), K. Krishnamurthy (FDSN), R. Keating (PSYC), B. Glavic (CS), J. Thomas (SGA).
Also Attending: J. Orgel (VPAA), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), N. Novak (Libraries), D. Fifles (Accreditation), K. Hawkins (AMP), J. Johnson (UGAA), L. Wegman (SSB/CSL), R. Calia (SSB), C. Lee (Registrar), S. Okhai (LCSL), N. Menhart (CCAC), M.J. Sullivan (ELS), M. Jones (Armour Academy), A. McGrath (Enrollment Services), M. Lopez (UGAA), G. Papavasiliou (Armour), M. Shapiro (SSCI), T. McGee (ELS), G. Smith (UGAA), M. Haynes (UGAA), Z. Robinson (Academic Success), G. Martinez (Armour Academy), Warner Rodda (Kaplan).
Units with absent voting members: ROTC.
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 12:45 p.m.
Adjourn at: 2:03 p.m.
1. Minutes from 3/28/2023 meeting approved by unanimous consent.
2. Information item: Policy clarification on Undergraduate Classroom Assistants (Orgel)
· Undergraduate Classroom Assistants may not grade students if they have a student-facing role. They may take attendance and mark completion of work, if properly supervised and supported considering the potential peer and social conflicts that can arise when other undergraduate students can influence or be influenced by these types of interactions.
· Undergraduate Marker Assistants must not have any type of student-facing role, they are not to identify themselves to the student's work that they mark.
3. Second reading: New Degree Programs under Incubator Policy (Twombly)
● BS in Business and Information Technology
● BS in Economics and Cybersecurity
● BS in Business and Psychology
Approved 16-0.
4. Revision to BS in Business Administration (Twombly) Approved by unanimous consent.
5. Second reading: New Degree Program: Public Policy (Mansury) Approved 15-0.
6. Adding ITM 313 to list of computer science courses within the STEM module of the Core Curriculum (Trygstad) Continued until next (4/25) meeting.
7. Elimination of BAC-ARCT/MS-ARCT coterminal program (Nagle) Approved 12-0, contingent upon finding out which process the coterminal program was originally approved under.
8. Elimination of Psychology department's degree in Applied Analytics (Keating) Approved 16-0.
9. HUM 250 and Core HUM 200-level Course Requirement (Gorzkowski)
The UGSC needs to know the status of the course as Writing Instruction Intensive before it can approve HUM 250 for the standalone, writing instruction intensive HUM 20x core curriculum requirement.
10. Information item: Revision of MMAE 445 course description and prerequisites (Vural)
11. IPRO Learning Objectives (Menhart) The reps will take these back to their AUs for comment.
12. Comments from students on (Thomas)
● Ineffective Midterm Course Evaluation Survey
● Proposal of Test Lecture for Faculty Candidates
● Outdated Curriculum & Review Panel
● Honors Program for Lewis College
● ELM Program Purpose & Role
● Tuition Scholarship Summer Term
● Digital Literacy at IIT
Adjourn.