ATTENDANCE: Carolyn Cardenas, Catherine Axinn, Josephine Bloomfield, Duncan Brown, Scott Carson, Lee Cibrowski, Brooke Dagnan, David Drabold, Judith Edinger, Peter Johnson,

David Juedes, Liz Miller, Bill Rhinehart (for Julie Zimmerman), Josep Rota, Susan Sarnoff, Ginger Weade, Maureen Weissenrieder, Christine Mattley

 ABSENCE:   Patricia Beamish, John Day, Natalia Matukhno, Chuck McWeeny, Jerrel Mitchell, David Mould, Averell Overby.

 EXCUSED:   Dina Lopez, Robert Roe, Usha Matta

 GUEST:   none.

 CONVENED:   2:11 P.M.

Packets with agenda were distributed, and the sign-in sheet was passed around.

Anne Walker, due to Usha Matta being in India, did the minutes.

CHAIR’S REPORT: DUNCAN BROWN A vote was taken to approve the January minutes. (See handout) They were approved with an agreement regarding a revision that was suggested on Page 3 regarding Carolyn Cardena’s statement. The minutes will be updated to reflect those changes and forwarded to graduate council members.

Duncan said we hope to eventually post the graduate council minutes on a website that is our own or on the Faculty Senate website, along with what each committee does.

Duncan sent a thank you to President McDavis for attending the Graduate Council meeting in January with mention that it would be nice for a visit from him to become an annual event in the fall of each year. President McDavis was very open to this suggestion and said he would be happy to come anytime.

Duncan passed around a hard copy of an article that was in The Chronicle: (See handout), regarding American Universities stepping up recruitment in order to hunt more aggressively for International students. It was also agreed in council that many of us travel and could be combining our efforts. There was more discussion regarding President McDavis’s remarks at the last council meeting. There are many ideas regarding better visibility concerning graduate level academics and how to promote those ideas.

MICHAEL MUMPER/ASSOCIATE PROVOST REPORT: Domestic applications are up by 450 compared to February 10, 2004. International applications remain down in numbers. This is the first time in 15 years that there are more US applications than International. We continue to address this issue in terms of recruitment methods. Usha is in India and due to return the first week of March. Beth Clodfelter is in the Middle East and Karla Schneider is in Malaysia. We will be receiving input from them upon their return.

The Grant Competition is going well. Sixty people applied for the lottery.

The Strategic Planning Process - the capacity of graduate programs to increase enrollment. Perhaps a small investment could help regarding recruitment. A large majority of units want to expand but do not have enough funds or manpower. Want to submit survey results to academic deans for meetings of the National Prominent Subcommittee. Work is being done and hopefully a survey will help give guidance. The Provost asked regarding programs that rated high. Please submit this information to Michael as soon as possible and he will pass it on to the Provost. At this point it is not important who is doing the rankings.

KATIE TADLOCK/DIRECTOR GRADUATE STUDENT SERVICES: The Fellowship brochures should be out next week. They will be sent out to all Grad Chairs and will also be available at OGS for students to pick up. Five fellowships are funded through the Office of the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies each year. Each of the five provides a service-free stipend and tuition scholarship, which are awarded through Graduate Council on a competitive nomination basis. The five fellowships are:

The John Cady Graduate Fellowship

The Donald Clippinger Graduate Fellowship

The Claude Kantner Graduate Fellowship

The Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellowship, and

The Graduate Fellowship

The Graduate Student Affairs and Fellowships Awards Committee “mission statement” draft was presented. (See handout) This draft was to address the functions of this committee, such as formulating guidelines, reviewing applications and recommending awards for the five annual Graduate Student Fellowships provided through OGS.

ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS COMMITTEE/JOSIE BLOOMFIELD:

Shauna Switzer, Ph.D., Instructional Technology (Education) Approved

Matthew Hyclak, Ph.D., Instructional Technology (Education) Approved

Gerard Akindes, Ph.D., I.I.P. (T Comm/Comm, Educ, Rec & Sports Sciences/HHS)

Holding for more review.

James McKean, Ph.D., Higher Education (Education)

Not enough information. Voted to hold for more review.

Shelley Ruff, MBA (Business)

Approved

A handout was given regarding Admission Committee responsibilities. (See handout)

The review of responsibilities seemed to suggest there were some other areas in which the committee could be involved as well as a possible name change.

Discussion of International enrollment and recruitment:

Graduate Council urges President McDavis and interim Provost Krendl to provide continuing base funding for the recruitment of funds provided to OGS for recruitment of international students.

Again there was much discussion regarding International enrollment and recruiting efforts. Michael Mumper mentioned that one half of the students in our country who are undergraduates go on to graduate school. We might make recruitment pitches to them, to those who will not have visa problems. Recruit students who are at other colleges as well who again, do not have visa problems. Duncan mentioned that we need to reach out to communities such as Columbus.

International Student Enrollment Issues/JOE ROTA presentation: (see handout for Power Point presentation) This presentation was regarding current enrollment, trends, challenges and benefits concerning International students. A final note on this presentation addressed Graduate Council and the University International Council’s responsibility for policy making. The two Councils collaborate in a number of important areas.

No new business.

Meeting adjourned: 4:00 pm.

Next meeting: March 11, 2005, 2 —4 pm

Governance Room, Walter Hall