Graduate Council (GC) Agenda + Minutes 11/2019
UH Hilo Graduate Council
Minutes: Friday November 1, 2019
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Location: COBE 212
Attending:
Shelby Wong, Samantha DeVivo, Ghee Tan, Peter Mills, Cheri Keliʻi-Marumoto, Mary Louise Haraguchi, Joyce Norris-Taylor, Mike Shintaku, Tracy Wiegner, Scott Saft, Diane Barrett, Bryan Kim, Keani Santa-Isabel
1. Meeting called to order at 2:00 pm.
2. Approval of minutes from previous meeting on October 4, 2019
Vote: 6-0-0.
3. Chair Announcements:
None.
4. Agenda Items/Discussion:
- 4.A. Assessment Update- Quantitative Reasoning Assessment Due to Scott
- Scott received MAT, MED, DNP, HRMA and TCBES. He still needs KHUOK, COUNS PSYCH, and PHARM. Please send to him when finished.
- 4.B. WICHE Western Regional Graduate Program (WRGP) Update
- More discussion needed about tuition percentage. Ken will address at next Graduate Council meeting.
- 4.C. Online GRE Reports from ETS Portal- Approval to Use as Official
- Vote to use online GRE reports from ETS Portal as the official report for application purposes.
- Motion- Bryan, Peter 2nd
- Vote: 8-0-0
- 4.D. Unclassified Student Credit Cap
- Hawaiian Language teachers would like to enroll in KITE courses during Summer, but aren’t able to because of the 9 credit limit for unclassified students. Discussion of the group was to remove 9 credit rule. Shelby will revise form and policy and bring to the next meeting for approval.
- 4.E. Curriculum Committee Update
- Shelby, Bryan and Peter met and approved all Fall 2020 Graduate course proposals (total # of proposals- 11, 3-0-0).
- 4.F. Graduate Division Updates:
- Additional GRE Seats- Two in November and two in December.
- Application Numbers as of 11/1/19
Program Apps Received COUNS PSYCH 13 TCBES 13 MAT 4 MED 0 DNP 4 HAWL 2 KITE 1 ILCE 1 HILCR 2
5. Other Business
- 5.A. Fall Thesis Defenses
- Shelby will confirm with program chairs once all defenses are complete.
Meeting adjourned at 2:45 PM.
Respectfully submitted by C. Kelii-Marumoto.