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Committee APPROVED Meeting Minutes, 17 September 2004 (9:00 a.m., Room 3104)
1. Committee members commended Ed Coffman for his leadership during the previous year as chairman of the PhD Program Committee, and then they unanimously elected him chairman of the committee for a consecutive term. 2. Meetings for the Fall Semester were set as 8 Oct (9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.); 4 Nov (1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.); and 3 Dec (9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.). The room for each meeting will be announced at a later date. 3. Ed Coffman distributed the minutes for the previous meeting, 5 May 2004, as well as the annual report he submitted for the 2003-2004 school year. The minutes were approved. 4. Gurpreet Dhillon will attend the University Graduate Studies Committee meeting on 28 Sep 04, with Jana McQuaid, when the committee will discuss and possibly vote on changes in the Business Foundation Course Requirements for the Ph.D. Program with a Concentration in Information Systems that was submitted by the Information Systems Department and subsequently approved by the Ph.D. Program Committee at its March 4, 2004 meeting. Dr. Dhillon will attempt to contact University committee members prior to 28 Sep 04 to determine if there are any unanswered questions or additional information the committee will need to facilitate their discussion and voting. (ACTION REQUIRED – Gurpreet Dhillon) 5. Carol Lehr reported that changes to the PhD Program Committee web-pages (at the School of Business website), discussed and approved at the 5 May 04 meeting (item 4 in the 5 May 04 meeting minutes), had been made during the summer. She also reported that the PhD Program Committee’s web pages are easier to locate, but that some “tweaking” of links will improve access further. (ACTION REQUIRED – Carol Lehr) 6. Allen Lee’s archived meeting minutes over the past several years will be used as the file source for scanning them into PDF format. Scanned documents will then be posted at the appropriate place in the PhD Program Committee’s web pages. The goal will then be to keep the posting of meeting minutes current, so that all faculty members have easy access to them. (ACTION REQUIRED – Allen Lee and Jana McQuaid) 7. Jana McQuaid will confirm that all approved changes to the Ph.D. Committee web pages, described in item 2 of the 5 May 04 meeting minutes, had been accomplished. She will contact PhD Program Committee members when she has confirmed that these changes were made. George Canavos will continue his role in terms of verifying consistency across all documents/media (e.g., Graduate Bulletin, website, PhD student handbook, brochures) (ACTION REQUIRED – George Canavos and Jana McQuaid). 8. After notification from Jana McQuaid (see item 7, above), committee members agreed to review all web pages of the PhD Program Committee at the School of Business website prior to the next committee meeting, so that recommendations could be made with regard to the need to update any other posted information. (ACTION REQUIRED – All committee members) 9. The agenda for the 8 Oct 04 PhD Program Committee meeting will include a discussion about the procedure by which a PhD student in Information Systems can have the requirement for MGMT 632 waived (see item 2a from 4 May 04 meeting). Gurpreet Dhillon agreed to draft language describing the proposed procedure. (ACTION REQUIRED: Gurpreet Dhillon) 10. The Department of Information Systems is to provide Graduate Studies in Business an updated description of its PhD Minor in Information Systems containing a discussion of the required comprehensive examination. (ACTION REQUIRED – Gurpreet Dhillon) 11. The agenda for the 8 Oct 04 PhD Program Committee meeting will include a discussion of PhD Dissertation Committee membership guidelines. Committee members asked that Jana McQuaid send each member a copy of the most current guidelines for PhD Dissertation Committee membership guidelines. (ACTION REQUIRED: Jana McQuaid) 12. The agenda for the 8 Oct 04 PhD Program Committee meeting will include a discussion about proposed changes in the Information Systems curriculum. Gurpreet Dhillon agreed to provide committee members a copy of proposed changes two weeks prior to the meeting. (ACTION REQUIRED: Gurpreet Dhillon)
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