Minutes of the Fifth Meeting of
The Graduate Council 2001-2002
Date and Time: Thursday, February
7, 2002, at 2:30 p.m.
Place: Provost's Conference Room, 104 Administration
Attendance: Anderson (presiding), Conrad, Deahl, Dennis, Dodd,
Hartmeister,
Herring, Hoo, Houck, Hunt, Maki, Peters, Stinespring
Ex-officio: Aycock, Ferguson, Hall, Imamura, Toyama
Guests: Pam Johnson
The Graduate Council Minutes are mailed and e-mailed to all Council members,
deans, chairs, and graduate advisors. The minutes will be posted to the
Graduate School website www.depts.ttu.edu/gradschool
1. Minutes of the fourth meeting, held on November 29, 2001, were approved
as distributed.
2. The following students were admitted to candidacy for the doctorate
on the recommendation of their departments.
Amanda Lee Banks
Counselor Education
Christopher P. Bloch
Biology
Eli Boroda
Agronomy
William Carl Brannon
English
Darin Scott Carroll
Biology
Samarn Chantaravarapan
Industrial Engineering
Suh-Jen Chen Lay
Higher Education
Mark Raymond Conder
Geoscience
Michael Noel Dean
Fine Arts - Music
Benjamin Coulter Dubberly
History
Gregory Gay Elkins
Higher Education
Daniel Wray Ferguson
English
Gary Lee Frye
Educational Leadership
Zhanyu Ge
Electrical Engineering
Maen Gharaibeh
Physics
Kathleen Therese Gillis
Technical Communication and Rhetoric
Michael William Gustafson
Higher Education
David John Hemmert
Electrical Engineering
Jamie D'Ann Hennigan
Higher Education
Robert Lynn Howell
Counselor Education
James Bennett Jasmin
English
Valerie Y'llise Job
Spanish
Mary Katherine Kallus
Curriculum and Instruction
Jin-Gi Kim
Electrical Engineering
Xiaobin Le
Mechanical Engineering
Dahui Li
Business Administration
Hector Cristian Maciel
Spanish
William Douglas Mills
History
Carolina Moctezuma
Spanish
Timothy Michael Powers
Educational Leadership
Ruben Rodriguez
Spanish
Wallis Remsen Sanborn
English
Vicki Todd
Higher Education
Candice Glouschutz Troke
Higher Education
Kenneth lee Untiedt
English
Ray Gene Whitfill
Instructional Technology
Harold Brian Yearwood
Educational Leadership
3. Academic Requests
a. Approved Course Additions, Changes, and Deletions
College of Architecture
ARCH 5326 History of American Architecture: Pre-Columbian-1900 (3:3:0)
(addition)
ARCH 5323 History and Theory of Historic Preservation and Policy (3:3:0)
(deletion)
ARCH 5324 Architectural Preservation and Conservation (3:3:0) (change
in title from Architectural Conservation and change in description)
ARCH 5501 Architecture Design Studio (5:3:9) (deletion)
College of Arts and Sciences
LING 5315 Pedagogical Grammar of Second/Foreign Languages and ESL
(3:3:0) (change in title from ESL/EFL Pedagogical Grammar
LING 5335 Introduction to Linguistics for Second and Foreign Language
Educators (3:3:0) (change in title from Linguistic Analysis for Bilingual
Education/ESL and change in description)
LING 5350 Second and Foreign Language Curriculum Design (3:3:0) (addition)
College of Engineering
ME 5372 Introduction to Microsystems (3:3:0) (deletion)
Interdisciplinary Programs
HMGT 5324 Heritage Resource Management (3:3:0) (change in title from
Cultural Resource Management and change in description)
HMGT 5323 Principles of Heritage Management (3:3:0) (addition)
b. Graduate Council approved a Joint Master of Business Administration
(MBA) and Master of Science in Family Financial Planning (MS/FFP) degree
proposal.
c. Graduate Council approved a Joint Master of Science with a Major in
Business Administration (Finance) and Master of Science with a Major in
Family Financial Planning degree proposal.
d. Rules and regulations for 150-hour dual bachelors and masters program
were discussed and approved as amended and will be forward to the Provost
for further consideration. A copy is attached.
4. Graduate Faculty
a. Graduate Council considered and approved 15 applicants for Graduate
Faculty. New members are:
Veronica Acosta-Martinez (Plant & Soil Science) (ADJUNCT)
Donald H. Dyal (Library)
G. Douglas Inglis (History) (ADJUNCT)
Eric Koch (Marketing)
Vernon Lanceford (Ag and Applied Economics)
Steven A. Mauget (Plant & Soil Science) (ADJUNCT)
Teddy P. Oetama (Petroleum Engineering)
Paxton Payton (Plant & Soil Science) (ADJUNCT)
Gary W. Smith (Architecture)
James C. Wetherbe (ISQS)
Ronald J. Wilheim (Physics)
Aliza W. Wong (History)
Zhanguo Xin (Plant & Soil Science) (ADJUNCT)
Yu Zhuang (Computer Science)
Xin Zuo (English)
b. Graduate Faculty from Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work and
Chemical Engineering were considered for reappointment. Eighteen were
approved to six-year terms and one was approved to a three-year term.
5. The Graduate and Professional Student Government Association (GPSGA)
will be sponsoring a Brown Bag Seminar. Barbi Dickensheet, Thesis/Dissertation
Coordinator for the Graduate School, will discuss the steps in the thesis/dissertation
process and major formatting guidelines. The seminar will be Friday, February
15, 2002, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Agricultural Sciences Building
214 (Auditorium).
6. Announcements
a. Graduate School enrollment for Spring 2002 is 3,746. This is a 9.7%
increase over last year. Texas Tech's overall enrollment stands at 24,101.
b. Dean Allan Headley has accepted a position with the National Science
Foundation as Program Director for one year. He is tentatively scheduled
to begin his duties on March 11, 2002. During his time away from TTU,
Dean Wendell Aycock's half-time appointment with the Graduate School will
become full-time and he will cover the duties of both Associate Deans.
c. The deadline for Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship nominations is February
22. March 1 is the deadline for applications for the Cash Family Endowed
Fellowship, the James D. and Mary Hazlewood Memorial Fellowship, the Health
and Social Services Fellowship, the Helen DeVitt Jones Graduate Fellowship,
the McNair Graduate Fellowship, and the Arthur J. Waterman Scholarship.
The Graduate School Junction Summer Scholarship and the Summer Dissertation/Thesis
Research Award application deadline is March 8.
d. A Graduate Advisor's Round Table discussion, hosted by the Graduate
School, is scheduled for Tuesday, February 19, in the University Center
Lubbock Room from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Topics of discussion will include
admissions procedures.
e. A Graduate School application fee increase from $25 to $50 for domestic
applications and $50 to$60 for international applications has been recommended
to the Board of Regents. If this proposal is approved, the Graduate School
application fees will be the same as the recently raised undergraduate
application fees.
f. Graduate applications are up with 1,267 domestic applications and 1,157
international applications through January 2002. An attachment gives data
on graduate school applications for Fall 2001.
g. The TTU Testing Center will start making appointments with students
who wish to take the GRE after February 15, 2002.
h. The Graduate Council approved a motion to recommend that the student
union fee, athletic fee, and recreation sports fee be made optional for
students enrolled in three hours or less.
i. The Spring 2002 Graduate School Newsletter has gone to print. Targeted
distribution is the last week in February.
j. Results for Texas Tech University from the Institution Profile from
the Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2000, is available for viewing in the
Graduate School.
k. Lady Falls Brown informed the Graduate School that approximately seventy
students used the services of the University Writing Center during the
fall 2001 semester.
The sixth meeting of the 2001-2002 Graduate Council will be held at 2:30
p.m., Thursday, March 7, 2002, in the Provost Conference Room, 104 Administration.
The meeting adjourned at 3:47 p.m.
