Council on Graduate Education Minutes for Meeting 9:00 to 10:45 a.m., HMB 415

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1 1 Council on Graduate Education Minutes for Meeting 9:00 to 10:45 a.m., HMB 415 Members: Dirksen Bauman, Department of ASL and Deaf Studies; Lawrence Pick, Department of Psychology; Carol Cohen, Department of Social Work; Amy Wilson, Department of Educational Foundations & Research; Steve Ackley, Department of Hearing, Speech, & Language Sciences; Linda Lytle, Department of Counseling; Department of Physical Education and Recreation; Gaurav Mathur, Department of Linguistics; Valerie Dively, Department of Interpretation; Amy Hile, Department of Education; Frank Duffy, Department of Administration and Supervision; Shane Dundas, GSA representative. Ex-Officio: Nancy Carroll, Assistant Dean, GSPP Also Present: Randy Prezioso, Beth Benedict, Matt Bakkee, Carol LaSasso, Carol Erting Absent: Nancy Carroll Meeting began at 9:07 Mathur proposed to accept the minutes from with corrections and Hile seconded. Dean s Report Bauman: There is no Dean s report. Chair s Report Bauman: I want to remind you that the exception to march form for students who will not have all their graduation requirements met but still want to march is due April 1 st. I will send it to you, please tell your program coordinators. At the Senate meeting last night all of the CGE curriculum actions were approved, nothing was sent back. The Senate also proposed adding another additional meeting. They have already added March 28, and are considering adding April 25. That would allow us another day to discuss curriculum actions before May 2. They also proposed suspending house rule #11, which would allow us to discuss the MA in Public Administration in May, and they accepted that. If it passes CGE and then the Senate it can go to the Board in October. Another part of the meeting discussed the online policy issue. There are questions of who is running online programs and there are inconsistencies. The Senate suggested that CUE and CGE create a joint workgroup on online policy and possibly involve some administrators. The policy committee will need to identify how many people, as well as who, can be in that group. It may be focused more on undergraduate degrees, but needs to identify important issues related to online.

2 2 They are also restructuring the Academic Affairs Committee; we need to watch that process and how it will impact graduate programs. There may be accreditation issues as well. That will be coming in May Dundas: Is there a student representative on that committee? Bauman: I do not remember any student names. GSA can look into whether they should have a student representative. Policy Committee Pick: The CUE and CGE policy committees both support the credit hour policy. I want to discuss it and then we can vote. Bauman: So we are trying to define what a credit hour equals? In class is 50 minutes plus two hours of time outside of the classroom per credit. So a three credit class requires six hours out of class. Is that what the government is looking for? Pick: This is taken from their language. Their minimum standard is 50 minutes, we are just documenting it. Bauman: We cannot confirm how much time students can commit outside of class. We will have a policy but it is impossible to enforce. Pick: It is not about enforcing, but defining. Mathur: Number one says that a semester equals 15 weeks, but have we decided if the semester is 14 or 15 weeks? Prezioso: Finals week is included, so it is 14 weeks plus finals week, so 15. Bauman: Has Pat Hulsebosch looked at this? Pick: They have all been included. Their feedback was that CUE and CGE must decide and then administration will get involved. For online programs contact should be the work equivalent of number one. Dively called for a vote on the credit hour policy. Passed, unanimously Pick: The Social Work department wants to share some information from their accreditation body regarding transfer credit. Cohen: Wanted to tell you about structure of our program. BSW and MSW standards say that the senior year of a BSW program should be equivalent to the first year of a MSW program. Standard M 3.23 says BSW students entering MSW programs are not permitted to repeat what has been mastered in their BSW programs. In actuality if we do not get an exception to the

3 3 transfer credit policy we are in violation of our accreditation standards, we are a unique program. Nine credit hours will not meet our program s needs. We have two policies that have already been approved by CGE. One is advanced standing which allows BSW students who apply with the right criteria to transfer up to 15 credits. Most schools allow one year of advanced standing, but we only allow one semester. If a student has mastered a specific BSW course we may accept that. That is the reason why we are asking for an exception. Our advanced standing policy has already been approved. Pick: Is you accreditation body national? Cohen: Yes, it is Council of Social Work Education Duffy: I would like to propose that the three of us meet to analyze this for clarification. Cohen: That will be fine. Bauman: I agree. The issue can be resolved in the policy committee and brought back in two weeks. Curriculum Committee Mathur: There are several proposals today. We will start with the Infants, Toddlers and Families certificate, Beth Benedict is here to explain it. Benedict: The challenge with this program is that it involves online and is also interdisciplinary. Early intervention involves linguistics, audiology, etc. It will have six courses and be a hybrid program. During the first summer they will come to Gallaudet for four full days and then finish the course online. They will also have a capstone project. With the fifth course it will start online, and then they will meet. Prezioso: Will the courses be a full semester or eight weeks? Benedict: We struggled with that, but decided on one semester. For now they will be 14 weeks but that may change later. Wilson: If students want to take just one course can they do that? Benedict: Yes they can, but they will not get the certificate. Some of the departments want these courses, so it is a win-win situation. Prezioso: What are the requirements? Benedict: They must have a Bachelor s degree. Bauman: I have some suggestions, editorial changes about what the catalog will say. I suggest removing the footnote related to diversity, and also switching two of the paragraphs.

4 4 Cohen: The first few syllabi relate to development, but then a later course includes cultural strategies. I think students cannot develop cultural strategies unless they understand the cultural influences that impact development. Therefore, culture or diversity should be included in the assessment component of development. Benedict: We meant to add culture there. Will you send me that in an ? Mathur: Are you talking about the SLO s? Cohen: Yes. Dively: How do you measure culture, diversity, and language? What is the assessment for the SLO s? Benedict: We need to include diversity, deaf, hearing, families of color, and sensitivity training. Bauman: The last sentence of the program description says, Online course utilizes the best practices for online teaching and learning and provides access to all information through American Sign Language and English. How do you do that? Benedict: We will do it through a discussion board and reading, as well as use Echo 360. Bauman: I am wondering about announcing the phrase best practices in the catalog. I will you about that. Number 5 says the program will start in the summer, is it ready? Benedict: Yes, we are ready and have people contacting us. Pick: I have a question about the number of students. You expect 12 students; is that a maximum? Benedict: From our experience we will start with 15 but not everyone will stay to finish the program. That is what has happened in the last three years, online is not for everyone. Erting: The President s office asked me about caps on the number of students, and we only have three programs that have them. With your programs please do not tell anyone you have a cap unless you have discussed it with me first. Bauman: Most of my suggestions are editorial changes. For example deleting key and switching candidates to students. Also, regarding ASL proficiency it says that no ASL proficiency will be required because you do not want to limit people, but that seems to conflict with the program description that discusses the bilingual principles of ASL and English. How will you solve that conflict? Benedict: This has been an issue we have discussed for a long time. Many in the field think if they come here they need to know ASL, but we want those people to come, but they will not if

5 5 we say we require ASL. We want them to come and allow the course to change their attitudes, and that has worked. Bauman: I understand the rationale, but how will you provide learning opportunities? Will there be captions? Benedict: We will have interpreters for on campus classes, I think we built that into the budget. Bauman: It seems like you will need interpreters for all the courses. Benedict: Yes, we planned for the face-to-face classes but forgot about the online courses. We will need to budget money for that. Dundas: Are the interpreters under your budget or the university s? Benedict: This program does not have a home; it is under the Dean s office. Bauman: While we are discussing budget issues, I noticed release time for one semester for the two coordinators. I am wondering if this relates to the university standards for release time. The coordinator has a ten month contract; release time is not consistent with what other programs receive. Benedict: I think it is because we teach and coordinate the program. Erting: It is talking about the summer time. Benedict: In spring we will work out everything and then teach during the summer. Bauman: Does the ten month pay cover your teaching or is that added? Benedict: Right now it is not added. We will be coordinating plus teaching Bauman: That is seen across programs. Erting: We are working on that. With CLAST and GSPP generally there is summer pay for summer work, not for work during the year. For many years the CLAST concept was one year of pay and then additional pay for what is done as chair during the year. We have started communicating clearly about that, that it is for summer pay during the summer. The Faculty compensation committee is reviewing different proposals for summer pay but I have not heard anything. Bauman: With this that will not be a problem, they will teach during the summer. My question relates to release time. My program does not get release time. Erting: Course release is for coordinating, directing- some is negotiable.

6 6 Benedict: Right now we are still developing this interdisciplinary program, we have to do the leg work. After a few years it may be reduced. Erting: When you review curriculum proposals, I never sign the resource line. I do not do it because I do not want to lose control of the resources, we have little flexibility. We do have interpreting money. Bauman: There are several issues; I recommend sending it back for clean up, budgeting for interpreters, etc. Erting: Also, we do not know what will be happening with CPSO. They manage interpreting, support, course development money, etc, so we will be considering those issues. Bauman: Please write a summary of what changes you make in the proposal. Bauman: Do we want to vote with the changes or wait and review it again? Duffy: I support that recommendation, voting now. Bauman: If you can make the changes and put them in a summary before I send it to the Senate then you start marketing the program for the summer. Dively proposed a vote on the ITF certificate program, with changes. Passed, unanimously. Mathur: I asked Carol LaSasso to come and explain the changes that were made to the HSLS proposal that was discussed at the last CGE meeting. Bauman: They added a new way that the program will address cultural sensitivity. They also changed some phrasing. Any comments? Hile called for a vote on the PhD program in HSLS and Dively seconded. Passed, unanimously. Mathur: Now for the proposal regarding the changes to the MA and PhD programs in Linguistics. We plan to make them more cohesive and have organized the curriculum around three tracks: phonology, cognitive linguistics and generative linguistics. We have a chart of the updated curriculum. This will allow more flexibility for students- they will have five electives and they can choose from a list of possible courses. Bauman: I have a question about the proposal. Both the MA and the PhD require electives, but many of the electives are 500 level; will PhD students be taking 500 level courses? Mathur: They are allowed to take those and consortium courses. We strongly encourage them to take consortium courses. Georgetown and the University of Maryland both have strong linguistics programs.

7 7 Bauman: Other comments? Sociolinguistics is moved, seems there is less emphasis on sociolinguistics. Mathur: The department decided to make it an elective for the Masters degree but it is required for the PhD. Bauman: I would suggest a new summary, it was a little confusing. Lytle proposed a vote on the MA and PhD Programs in Linguistics proposal and Pick seconded. Passed, unanimously. Mathur: There are three other proposals we are working on, one from Deaf Studies, and two from Education. Erting: I have a proposal that is coming too. Wilson: Thank you to the curriculum committee for all your work there have been many proposals. Student Concerns Committee Cohen: We have been looking through the minutes trying to find written information, we are at fault ourselves because when we meet we have not documented what has happened. We have not found anything about concerns related to the mental health center except in 2008 we found a statement that student interns are not permitted to receive counseling at the MHC. Wilson: We did find information about the tutoring center and graduate students in the minutes. Cohen: We will post what we do, we have been struggling to find the information we want. Bauman: It will be good to have documentation, the Curriculum and Policy Committee do. Lytle: I will give you the file I have from when I was in the committee. Cohen: I also got a list from Martha Sheridan, we will post that too. Bauman: If you could summarize your information and then post it, that would be great. New Business Bauman: Regarding the meeting schedule for the rest of the semester. The next meeting is the week after spring break, but the committees will not have met due to the break, so we may not have any work to discuss. It has been recommended that we change the schedule so the next meeting is March 29 th. One issue with that is that I am not here on April 12, you can go ahead without me but it is possible that the Deaf Studies curriculum proposal could come up that day.

8 8 Mathur: Is there someone else from your department that could discuss it? Will the new schedule align with the Senate meetings? Erting: Maybe you could only change one meeting. Bauman: The curriculum committee typically meets every other Tuesday, they need that week between. I can try and find someone to come on the 12 th. Mathur: Another solution would be for the curriculum committee to find another time to meet that week. Bauman: We could move March 22 to March 29 and then go back to the normal schedule, so we will have back to back meetings. Mathur: I think that will be fine. Bauman: So there will be no meeting on the 22 nd and March 29 th will be the next CGE meeting. Mathur: If curriculum actions are finished on 29 th can they go to the Senate on April 8 th? Bauman: No, the meeting is on April 4 th. What will need to go to the Senate? What passed today could go to the Senate on March 28, but the Senate should maybe cancel the 28 th meeting, it may not be needed. We will meet again on March 29 th. Meeting ending 10:49 Actions Passed -Credit Hour Policy -ITF Certificate, with changes -PhD in HSLS -MA and PhD in Linguistics Proposal