October 22, 2021- Agenda & Minutes

Time:  10:00am
Location: Zoom invite sent to committee members. If anyone else would like to attend, please email Jen for details.
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 10/8/2021

When available, the meeting minutes will be indicated within bold brackets [ ] and are in draft form until they are approved by the committee.

Relevant Links: Undergraduate Council Meeting Minutes/ Graduate Council Meeting Minutes

I. Call to Order [10:03 AM]

II. Approval of the September 24, 2021 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

IV. Old Business

• College Requirements for the BA  [Tabled, some departments need more time for review.]
  • Impacted programs:
    • Biology, BA
    • Chemistry, BA
    • Geography, BA
    • Geology, BA
    • Mathematics, BA
• New Courses
  • EVPP 530: Evidence-Based Environmental Policymaking [Approved pending a syllabus update on the grading scale and information on where the readings will be housed.]

V. New Business – Undergraduate

Modified Programs

• Environmental Science, BS [Approved]

VI. New Business – Graduate

Modified Programs

• Bachelor’s Degree (selected)/Environmental Science and Policy Accelerated Master’s [Approved]
• Chemistry, BS/Chemistry, Accelerated MS [Approved]
• Computational and Data Sciences, BS/ Computational Science, Accelerated MS [Approved]
• Environmental Science and Policy, MS [Approved]
• Geographic and Cartographic Sciences, MS [Approved]
• Geoinformatics and Geospatial Intelligence, MS [Approved]
• Geospatial Intelligence Graduate Certificate [Tabled to reconsider TOEFL statement. Friendly comment to correct “letters or recommendation”.]

New Program

• Atmospheric Sciences, BS/Climate Science, Accelerated MS [Tabled]

VII. Adjournment [10:38 am]