Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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), A. Sandhu (FDSN), E. Hazard (HUM), C. Wark (MMAE),  R. Klaszky (ROTC),  J. Twombly (SSB),  P. Ireland (SSCI), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS), R. Trygstad (ITM).

Also attending:    J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), G. Smith (UGAA), M. Bauer (CS), F. Estrada (Admissions), C. Himes (CSL), M. Jorgenson Sullivan (ELS), M. Lopez (Academic Affairs), A. Matari-Renno (Registrar's Office), N. Novak (Galvin), T. Riley (Admissions).

Departments with absent voting members: ARCH, PSYC, SGA

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

Meeting chaired by Greg Pulliam for Kathryn Spink.

Minutes recorded by Greg Pulliam

Quorum declared at: 12:50 pm

Adjourn at: 1:47 pm

1. Approval of the minutes for April 21, 2020.

         The minutes for April 14, 2020 were approved by unanimous consent.

2. G. Pulliam, speaking for K. Spink, informed the members that there would be a stricter adherence to CIM protocols beginning this academic year for items which will impact the Bulletin and Course Catalog:

· All academic units must input such items in CIM, and get approval in CIM from the unit chair (if there is one) and the college dean before they will be added to the UGSC agenda.

· After presentation to the UGSC and, if necessary, an affirmative vote, the UGSC chair will approve the item in CIM.

· UFC Chair then approves the item in CIM after presentation to and vote by UFC and, if necessary, approval of faculty according to appendix P.

3.  G. Pulliam, co-chair, presented the report from the Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI) Working Group which met over the summer.  The report includes two proposals for this committee—a policy on how the IAI's General Education/Core Curriculum (GECC) Module will be applied to IIT's Core Curriculum, and a change to IIT's Core Curriculum which will allow the policy to be implemented.

     The remainder of the meeting was devoted to discussion of these proposals. The discussion centered around the university's mission-specific "carve-outs" in the proposed policy—focusing mostly on those for the Humanities/Fine Arts and Social/Behavioral Sciences, and on the conflation of two 3-hour GECC courses into a single 3-hour IIT credit for HUM 20X. Admissions expressed concern that these carve-outs and the conflation will make IIT less attractive to community college transfer students than we would otherwise be, as these students would "lose" 9 hours of their community college course work. Faculty tended to express support for the carve-outs.