Members Present: Ed Coffman (chair), George Canavos, Deborah Cowles, Tracy Green, Allen Lee, Carol Lehr, and Neil Murphy
Guests present: Rich Redmond

Meeting called to order: 1:05 pm

1. Minutes of the March 4, 2004 meeting were approved.

2. May 5, 2004 selected as the next meeting date for the Committee.

3. A student request was approved (approval of the dissertation committee and extension granted for the 5 year limit for the proposal defense).

4. Ed Coffman distributed the AACSB Learning Goals and Measures for the Ph.D. in Business.

5. A motion was approved to require all departments offering a Ph.D. minor to include a comprehensive exam as part of the minor requirements.

6. The Committee discussed and approved (with minor editorial changes) the new Procedures for Staffing 700-level Courses and Dissertation Committees.

7. The Committee voted to move the deadline for Ph.D. applications to February 15th.

8. Tracy Green submitted written guidelines that outline the policies and procedures for graduate student appeals. The Committee agreed the guidelines would prove helpful to both the students and to Director of Graduate Studies.

9. The Committee discussed the appropriate use of the “898 courses”. It was decided that the course title (but not number) should be modified to reflect its use for both pre-doctoral defense and post-doctoral defense research credit.

Meeting adjourned at 2:45 pm.