Academic Council Minutes, October 6, 2003
I. Minutes
II. General
Agenda
--Upgrades to the administrative system and greater
agreement on PeopleSoft issues were noted.
Also noted was that Liz Branch will be moving to Houston shortly
to assist the PeopleSoft effort from that end.
--Trudy Wortham announced
that there would be a change from the previously reported semester
enrollment data distributed by the Registrar’s office.
The online information would reflect semester credit hour
information rather than enrollment information.
--Staff have completed initial WebCT Vista
training in Houston. Chari
Norgard and UH representatives will be meeting with representatives from
Texas A&M, North Texas, and the two Harris County community
colleges, to share issues and expertise related to Vista.
--Joe Ferguson raised questions about how
best to provide training to faculty and staff located in Fort Bend and
discussed policy on the distribution of old computers to the public
schools.
- Fort
Bend Issues and Updates
--The provost indicated that two master’s
level engineering programs from UH had been approved for Sugar Land and
Cinco Ranch. He noted that
a small classroom was being reconfigured to double as a computer lab for
ongoing student projects related to the Information Systems program.
Dean Natividad asked whether the computers could be used for
testing. The answer is
uncertain at this point. She
will describe the need, and an inquiry will be made.
II. Specific
Agenda
--Approved the request of a student in
Criminal Justice to complete requirements under an earlier catalog. --Approved the request of a
student to waive the TOEFL requirement, on the basis of demonstrable
English proficiency.
--Approved the request of a
student to be readmitted to the MBA program under the requirements of the
old program in effect when he was first admitted in 1998.
·
Faculty Development Conference Presentation and Research
Requests/Reports
--Approved a
development grant for conference presentation ($775) to Dr. Chien-Ping
Chen for the 15th International Conference of Association for
Global Business, in Atlanta, GA, in November.
--Approved a
development grant for conference presentation ($1,000) to Dr. Estella De
Los Santos for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, in
Philadelphia, PA, in April.
--Approved a
development grant for conference presentation ($1,000) to Dr. Barba Patton
for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, in Philadelphia, PA,
in April.
--Approved a
development grant for conference presentation ($1,000) to Dr. Jifu Wang
for the 2003 Annual International Academy of Business and Economics
Conference, in Las Vegas, NV, in October.
--Accepted
grant-funded conference travel reports from Drs. Jane Fry, Donald Loffredo
(2), and Barba Patton (2).
--Accepted
grant-funded research reports from Drs. Donald Loffredo and Jifu Wang.
--The Council
discussed the process for completing articulation agreements with other
institutions. The process
should work as follows:
o
Any appropriate faculty or staff member may initiate a
tentative understanding about the articulation of courses and degree
programs.
o
A proposed agreement should then be provided to the
Registrar’s Office, which will ensure that it is in the standard format
and that the schools have had opportunity to review it.
o
The Registrar will submit the formal agreement for approval
by the Academic Council.
o
The Registrar will then send the agreement to the presidents
for signatures.
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