Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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

Meeting Minutes

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

Also Attending: J. Orgel (VPAA), G. Pulliam (CAC), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), G. Papavasiliou (ACE), M.J. Sullivan (ELS), K. Hawkins (AMP), N. Gallardo (Registrar), Y. Han (Galvin), Z. Robinson (Academic Success), G. Smith (UGAA), A. McGrath (Enrollment Services), K. Spink (CCAC), J. Johnson (Pathway & Bridge), D. Fifles (Accreditation), K. Guyton-Hamlin (Registrar), F. Suarez (UG Admissions), M. Jones (Armour Academy), J. DeWinter (CSL), S. Okhai (CSL), A. Qamer (Registrar), C. Lee (Registrar), P. Houser (INTM).

Units with absent voting members: CHEM, SGA.

Documents for this and all 2021-22 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 12:48 p.m. 

Adjourn at: 1:15 p.m.

 

1.   Approval of minutes from 9/13/2022:  The minutes (with amendments) were approved by unanimous consent.

2.   Information item: changes to ITM curriculum (Ray Trygstad). Unanimous consent that changes are not significant. UGSC will pass on to UFC.

3.   Information item: increasing credits from 1 hour to 2 hours for BME 315 and 405 (Promila Dhar). Unanimous consent that changes are not significant. UGSC will pass on to UFC.

 

New Business

     4.  Katie Spink:  Core Curriculum Assessment Committee is short members—especially from Humanities and Social Sciences.

     5.  John Twombly: SSB is in the process of converting its UG specializations into full-blown majors. This will be coming to the agenda in future UGSC meetings.

 

     Adjourn.