Members Present: David Dubofsky (chair), George Gray, Carol Scotese Lehr, Ed Coffman, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, and Allen Lee.

Meeting Called to Order: 11:20 a.m.

Business Items:

1. The minutes from the October 7th meeting were reviewed and approved.
2. The committee agreed that when an issue or item is discussed but cannot be voted on because a relatively minor bit of information is missing, that a vote via email is acceptable. This was the manner by which W.L. Grubb’s request for approval of his dissertation committee was handled. By a 5-0 e-mail vote (with one non-voter), his committee was approved.
3. The committee approved Alexander Korzyk’s change in his dissertation committee. Dr. Alexander Yap was a member of his committee, but has left VCU. However Mr. Korzyk’s committee still has five members.
4. The committee reviewed applications to teach 700-level courses and chair dissertation committees. The following applications were unanimously approved until December 31st of the year shown, which is five years after the year in which the individual’s earlier paper was published:
Doug Davis (ECON): 2006
George Hoffer (ECON): 2007
Ron Humphrey (MGMT): 2005
Don Miller (MGMT): 2004
David Urban (MRBL) 2006
Rob Wood (MGMT): 2006

5. The committee agreed to table the other three applications until the next meeting on December 2nd. At that time, committee member Carol Scotese Lehr will submit a suggested change concerning the number of authors needed to compute an Author Affiliation Index (AAI). Upon approval of that change, the committee will consider the other applications.

6. The agenda for the next meeting on December 2nd will include:
a. Larry Williams, and perhaps others, will speak to the committee about its recent vote on the management department 700-level policy. They will speak at the end of the next meeting at 12:15PM.
b. The committee will reconsider the tabled applications, as discussed in item #5 above.
c. Review, discuss, and vote upon suggested changes to the PhD handbook and the application for faculty to teach 700-level courses and chair dissertations.
d. Determine dates and times for committee meetings in the Spring 2003 semester.
e. Discuss agenda items for its January 2003 meeting, including creating uniform minor requirements for all Doctoral programs in the School of Business, and the research core courses that are required to be taken by all PhD students.

The meeting adjourned at 12:30PM.