Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

12:45 p.m. On-line via Zoom Platform

Meeting Minutes

Attending Voting Members:  F. Weening (AMAT), J. Twombly (SSB), R. Trygstad (ITM), E. Kultermann (ARCH), B. Glavic (CS), E. Hazard (HUM), K. Krishnamurthy (FDSN), N. Legate (PSYC), E. Oruklu (ECE), M. Vural (MMAE), Y. Lin (BIOL), Y. Mansury (SSCI), D. Mogul (BME), S. Kleps (CAEE), V. Perez-Luma (CHBE), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS).

Also Attending: J. Orgel (AVP UGAA), G. Pulliam (CAC), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), C. Himes (Dean LCSL), M. Haynes (UGAA), K. Cassel (ACE), T. McGee (ELS), N. Menhart (VP Accreditation).

Departments with absent voting members: CHEM, ROTC, SGA.

Documents for this meeting are available at: <https://www5.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/2021-2022/>.

Meeting chaired by Kathryn Spink.

Minutes recorded by Greg Pulliam.

Quorum declared at 12:48 p.m. 

Adjourn at: 1:35 p.m.

1. Approval of minutes from 3/22/2022:  The minutes were approved by unanimous consent.

     2. Announcement: Last UGSC meeting is 4/26/2022.

     3. UGSC Leadership 2022-23 Update/nominations (Spink)

a.   Chair:  Fred Weening - Approved by UFC April 1

b.   Vice-Chair: Kathiravan Krishnamurthy volunteers to serve in this role.

c.    Secretary:  Greg Pulliam has agreed to continue as secretary - Approved by UGSC March 22

     4. New Program BS in Game and Interactive Media Design (Papademas): may vote on 4/26/2022.

5. Periodic Review Biology Department Programs  

a.   BS Biology

b.   BS Biochemistry

c.    BS Bioinformatics

d.   BS Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics

e.   Pre-Pharmacy

All reports were accepted by the UGSC by unanimous consent.

     6. Intensive Courses Continued Discussion (Menhart/Himes)

a.   Proposal for discussion

              Vote to be held 4/26/2022.

Adjourn.