Attendance: Abraham,Bisbee, LeFevre, Klatsky, King, Perdiguero, Silky, Smith, Vanouse

1. Minutes of February 3, 2006.  Abraham moved approval; Silky seconded.  The minutes were approved as written.
2. Graduate Dean’s Report. Dr. King reported on the following items:
   • On February 9, 2006, the Graduate Directors met with Cynthia Clabough and four of her students to begin the process of developing brochures for the individual graduate programs in each department.  Now smaller groups of individuals are meeting with these students to further this project.  Ben Patterson, a graduate intern has pulled together a large amount of detail that could be utilized in these brochures.
   • Update on Program Initiatives: CPS Community Counseling Licensure is being considered; the MAT Math is at the Provost level; the Psych/HCI is still in Albany awaiting approval; and CPS is looking a other possible options for programs.
   • The Graduate Studies Office and CPS are considering a graduate mentoring program designed to encourage undergraduates to apply to graduate schools.
   • Marketing of the graduate programs is still in the forefront with discussions with Continuing Education and design for improvements of the graduate websites.
   • Dean King posed the question: Can someone earn a BS degree and an MBA degree in different areas at the same time?  A brief discussion on this topic was held later in the meeting.  It seemed to be the consensus that as long as all degree requirements are met with this is possible.  SUNY appears to permit this. 
3. Chair’s Report. 
   • All of the CSC courses approved in November have been corrected and reported out at Faculty Assembly.
   • Mary Loe is concerned about the approval of graduate courses sometimes by-passing the library.  There seems to be no specific process for including the library as there is for the undergraduate courses going through UCC.  The question of whether or not Graduate Council should have an electronic process for submitting courses was asked.  The consensus seemed to be that this would be an appropriate goal to work toward for this semester, to begin submission in fall 2006.    Further discussion is needed so this topic should be an item on a future agenda.
   • D. Vanouse distributed a partial list of Graduate Scholarships that must be decided by members of Graduate Council.  Due to lack of applicants, the deadline date for submission of applications has been moved to March 1.
4. Old Business

• GRT 520 Social Gerontology – No one was in attendance to present the course.  It will be placed on a later agenda.

The following courses were presented by Bisbee.  The courses are being updated with new titles emphasizing engineering and digital photography as well as updated references, to meet the needs of new state certification requirements.

• TED 536 Introduction to Research for Technology Education – Bisbee presented the course.  After a short discussion concerning statements in the Evaluation section, Bisbee agreed to restate the section.  The course was approved.
• TED 581 Instructional Materials for Technology Education (Digital Library) – After a brief discussion about the evaluation section, the course was approved pending corrections to the evaluation statement.
• TED 582 Engineering Concepts in Technology Education - After a brief discussion about the evaluation section, the course was approved pending corrections to the evaluation statement.
• TED 583 Digital Multimedia for Technology Teachers - After a brief discussion about the evaluation section, the course was approved pending corrections to the evaluation statement.
• TED 584 3D Solid Modeling and Advanced CAD for Technology Education - After a brief discussion about the evaluation section, the course was approved pending corrections to the evaluation statement.
• TED 570 Darkroom and Digital Photography for Technology Education - After a brief discussion about the evaluation section, the course was approved pending corrections to the evaluation statement.
• TED 571 Instructional Technology for Technology Teachers - After a brief discussion about the evaluation section, the course was approved pending corrections to the evaluation statement.
• TED 572 Laboratory Development for Biological Science Content - After a brief discussion about the evaluation section, the course was approved pending corrections to the evaluation statement.

5. New Business

• Discussion on the Awarding of Two Graduate Degrees.  Dean King presented the SUNY policy that indicates that each institution should have a policy about this indicating such items as the number of overlap or double-dip hours permitted, admission requirements, etc.  Currently Oswego has no policy.  Smith indicated that this has happened in the Curriculum and Instruction Department.  This department has used the off-campus number of semester hours as a guide for number of coursed permitted to double-dip.  All agreed that this topic needs more discussion on a later agenda.  Meanwhile the Graduate Office will keep Graduate Coordinators informed it is occurring in their programs.
• Graduate Course Submission Process – Vanouse distributed a copy of UCC procedures.  P. Russo, Chair of UCC will be invited to the next meeting when this is on the agenda.

Next meeting is March 3, 2006

Meeting adjourned 9:20

Minutes Submitted by J. Smith