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5. Report of the Curriculum Committee – Ken Andries
Chair Andries shared that there was no information yet on the items from Math that were tabled at the last Senate meeting. The Nursing courses being considered had been vetted by the Graduate Council. Dr. Obielodan concurred. These were courses that the program intended to create as a second effort, and so these courses would complete the program's offerings. They will be mostly taught by adjunct faculty who are already teaching in the program. All will be offered online. Chair Glass asked about the academic qualifications of these adjunct faculty since these are doctoral-level courses. Chair Andries replied that the faculty he had reviewed have doctorates.
CC 16-17.23 New Nursing Courses
NUR 800 Advanced Adult / Gerontological Primary Care I NUR 801 Advanced Adult / Gerontological Primary Care I Practicum NUR 804 Advanced Adult / Gerontological Primary Care II NUR 805 Advanced Adult / Gerontological Primary Care II Practicum NUR 806 Advanced Adult / Gerontological Primary Care III NUR 807 Advanced Adult / Gerontological Primary Care III Practicum NUR 808 Research Design and Methodologies NUR 900 Advanced Practice Leadership and Management NUR 901 Advanced Practice Leadership and Management Practicum NUR 902 Clinical Residency NUR 903 Health Care Policy NUR 905 Clinical Residency II NUR 906 DNP Project Focused Course NUR 907 DNP Project
The item passed unanimously.
6. Report of the Academic Policies Committee – Ashok Kumar
APC 16-17.04 Updates to Graduate Catalogue and Policies
Chair Moffett indicated that since he was at the SACSCOC conference during APC’s last meeting, Vice-Chair Kumar ran the meeting. Dr. Kumar explained that by recommendation of the Graduate Council, Dr. Obielodan presented some changes of policy for the graduate program, as well as a draft of a freestanding graduate catalogue. These changes include lowering the admissions GPA to 2.5 in order to put KSU in line with other public universities in the state. Dr. Obielodan completed a comparison study of public universities in Kentucky and found that KSU was asking more of its applicants and therefore was losing students to other schools. The catalogue eliminates references to deans; application fees and admissions tests were also reconsidered.
President Sipes clarified that the new graduate catalogue will contain three parts: policies, procedures, and course descriptions. President Sipes asked if anyone had written a separate proposal to remove the graduate materials from the current university catalogue. Dr. Obielodan