1. Selection of UG Team Leader
a. Dr. G. Burnett selected
2. New Issues discussed
a. UG Representation
i. SOIS president + 1 another
ii. Representation of Adult/distance students and their disposition/viability to assist to UG Team meeting was discussed.
1. Suggestion was made to recommend the Distance learning Team to include undergraduate student representation on their team.
2. Suggestion: recommend SOIS to seek ways to include distance students /representation into their organization.
iii. Working students:
1. Suggestion: make arrangements to have one UG Team meeting in evening time to allow working student representation (to be scheduled around 2/3 of the semester)
b. Team meeting time
i. Everyone will email Dr. G. Burnett providing "time not available" on Tuesdays & Wednesdays to determine probable meeting time.
3. Curriculum
a. Description of the concentrations (short paragraph narratives)
Include:
i. Jobs students can get
ii. Faculty names - people who can tell me more about this concentration/ advice according to concentration
b. Is there a review of the UG curriculum?
c. Courses not offered: cannot been deleted because in the long term if needed, will not be authorized by FSU.
d. DIS. To what extent do we encourage students to DIS?
i. Offer massive # of DIS? OR
ii. Do we design a long-term plan to provide classes that will cover the subjects taken as DIS?
Recommendations
1. Include employer's recommendation on what courses they look for when hiring new employees.
4. Limited access was revisited: Negative impact on ethnic/gender aspects does not make it viable.
a. It was mentioned there is no difference between the results of our study to the results the same parameters if applied to FSU as a whole.
b. Dr. Burnett will mention this again to the administration.
5. Strategies needed:
a. # 1 item in the agenda for our next meeting:
i. What are the fundamental issues we are looking at?
ii. What kind of outcome would you like to have?
iii. What kind of proposal would we like to suggest?
iv. Why are we doing that/what kind of proposal would you like to present to the faculty?
v. How do we do that?
b. Other issues for next meeting(s):
i. Set strategies & goals
ii. Issues to discuss: concentration issues; DIS issues.
1. Are the core courses appropriate?
2. Do we need to change the class program?
iii. Scheduling of classes
iv. Schedule of the Undergraduate Team meetings
6. Other issues discussed:
a. Faculty advisor recruitment status: Resumes have arrived.
b. Faculty training session on student advisory (was originally scheduled for August!!!).
c. Responsibility assignment of advisors
d. Student registration issues were discussed.
e. Faculty should be upfront in advisory issues.
f. Advisory materials for Faculty (electronic preferred)
i. Access to class rosters/class material issues
ii. Problems with access [to database]
Agenda Posted by Howard Rodriguez (hrr4803@garnet.acns.fsu.edu) on 10/03/2000 at 01:32:01