Attendance: J. LeFevre, D. King, L. Qiu (guest), R. Scholnik, W. Silky, J. Smith, D. Vanouse

1.                  Approval of Agenda. Agenda was approved as written

2.                  Approval of Minutes – 2-2-07. The minutes were reviewed and approved as written.

3.                  Dean’s Report. – D. King noted the following:

• Another possible location was visited for the Syracuse Metro Center.  Plans are moving forward for a full opening in Spring 2008.  If open in Fall 2007 only short institutes, workshops, etc. will be offered at the location.
• The first draft of the Professional Science Masters proposal has been completed.  Now editing is being completed with the assistance of representatives from Sloan.  If approved, this project will last until 2010.

4.                  Chair’s Report.  D. Vanouse asked if anyone knew of any submissions for

Festa Scholarships.  B. Silky, D. Vanouse, and R. Scholnik indicated that they each had a possible candidate.  However, the difficulty was in finding a sponsor in a leadership role to host the graduate student.

5.                  I. P. Grades.  This item was delayed until a future agenda. 

6.                  HCI 520 Graphical User Interfaces.  L. Qiu presented the revision of the course that is a requirement in the Human Computer Interaction MS and also taken as an elective by undergraduates from the Computer Science major.  Questions were asked about requirements for graduates vs. undergraduates, the number of students in a typical class, frequency of offering, and minor editing of the course outline.  After a brief discussion, the course was approved pending editorial revisions. 

7.                  EAD 660 Organizational  Change for Building and District Leaders. B. Silky presented the outline.  The course serves as an elective in the Ed. Ad. Program.  After brief discussion, the course was unanimously approved as written.

8.                  Policy on Graduate Student Registering for Classes Beyond Degree Requirements – D. King noted that there have been several recent instances of graduate students delaying completion of degrees in order to collect financial aid or use scholarship money.  He was concerned, as both these amounts of money are limited.  If someone who is really finished but delays graduation just to collect funds, then money is being taken away from someone else who may really need it to complete a program.  Currently these situations are being decided by the Graduate Dean on an individual basis.  After discussion of the Council members that suggested there could be satisfactory reasons for delaying graduation as well as inappropriate ones.  It was the consensus of the Council that these situations would continue to be handled by the Graduate Studies Office on an individual basis.

Meeting adjourned at 9:25.  Minutes reported by J. Smith