Gathegi led discussion of the Summers Award. The Summers Award subteam ranked the three applicants, but no decision can be made until the Faculty has an opportunity to rank the candidates. Genz will circulate the three essay submissions to the Faculty for ranking, with a deadline of 5 pm on October 28, 2002. Genz will tally the results, break the tie if there is one, and notify Latham of the winner.
The Orientation sub-team has met once and is working on the orientation information Web site. Orientation will be held two weeks before classes start in Fall, 2003, with the Web site made available in early July. The sub-team will meet again on October 31 at 11 a.m. The sub-team is also working on an orientation survey to be distributed soon to the M-S team for comments.
Minutes of the October 2, 2002 meeting were approved as distributed. Genz distributed a draft of the Knowledge Management concentration description and a template to assist others in developing their concentration descriptions. Descriptions should be approximately 2 pages long and are due on November 6, 2002. The concentrations and those responsible for their descriptions are as follows. Information Architecture: Keith Belton, Don Latham--Information Needs of Youth: Eliza Dresang, Tom Hart--Information Policy and Management: John Gathegi, Maria Chavez-Hernandez--Information Technology: Misook Heo--Knowledge Management: Jeff Shim, Marcella Genz. A discussion of graduate student advising focused on the purpose of graduate advising and the division of responsibilities between graduate advisors and faculty advisors. An online interactive advising form was previously recommended and is in process. Shim will draft a list of the division of advising tasks between graduate and faculty advisors. Latham will work with Information Architecture to continue to improve the advising section of the School's Web site. Recommendation to bring before the Faculty: faculty members will no longer perform graduation checks. Latham led a discussion of admission standards. Options for change include: using a sliding scale of GPA versus GRE score, with lower than the minimum expected GPA requiring higher than the minimum currently expected in the GRE and vice versa, to combine those admissions criteria (note there is currently no minimum GRE required if GPA is 3.0 for last 60 hours; without 3.0 GPA, 1000 is required on GRE); considering the writing portion of the GRE ("fading" it in over 5 years); not allowing provisional admissions for those without GRE scores; not using our "exceptions"; or holding exceptions until April and selecting a finite number (e.g. 5). An additional suggestion is that mentoring be provided for students admitted as exceptions.
Agenda Posted by Michelle Kazmer (kazmer@lis.fsu.edu) on 10/26/2002 at 14:02:01