Annual Report
2002-2003
The Committee met seven times
during the academic year (the December 2002 meeting was canceled because it
lacked a quorum). David Dubofsky (FIRE) was
elected chair during the October meeting.
Other committee members were
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson (Information Systems), Ed Coffman (Accounting), George
Gray (Management), Pam Kiecker (who resigned effective January 2003, as she
went on leave during the Spring semester; Marketing and Business Law), Carol
Lehr (Economics), and Carol Rasnic (beginning January 2003; Marketing and
Business Law). Allen Lee (Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies) and
Tracy Green (Director, Graduate Studies Program) served on the committee as
ex-officio members.
The committee approved the dissertation committees of
Flavia Cavazotte, W.L. (Lee) Grubb, Alexander Korzyk (committee change),
Arinola Adebayo, Joyce van der Laan Smith, and Boontaree Kositanurit. The
committee approved an extension, beyond the 7-year limit, for Carol Leary.
The committee approved the following applications to
teach 700-level courses and chair dissertations: Doug Davis (2006), George
Hoffer (2007), Ron Hymphrey (2005), Don Miller (2004), David Urban (2006), Rob
Wood (2006), Randy Barker (2007), Gurpreet Dhillon (2006), Bob Reilly (2006),
Carolyn Strand (2006), and Amita Chin (2004).
The committee approved the following clause concerning
the computation of the Author Affiliation Index (AAI), which is used to
determine whether a journal is considered to be of sufficient quality to be
acceptable for 700-level status:
“In
the case that the number of authors affiliated with US universities is fewer
than 50, the article may count under Option 1b if the affiliations of a
sufficient number of the foreign or non-university based authors are, in the
judgment of the committee, comparable in research quality to the university set
upon which the numerator of the AAI is based.
For example, non-university
The
committee voted 3-3 on two proposals submitted by the Management Department.
The first proposal (February 10th meeting) was to change the
Organizational Behavior major to a Management major, with a change of
curriculum. The second proposal (May 5 meeting) was to discontinue the
Organizational Behavior major program.
Changes
to the PhD Handbook were approved, as follows:
·
Regarding admission:
“Departmental admission committees may accept GRE scores as they deem
appropriate.”
·
Regarding Full-Time/Part-Time status:
“Departments offering major areas in the Ph.D. in Business determine
whether students must complete the program as part-time or full-time students…”
·
Regarding formation of dissertation committee: “After the student has successfully completed
major and minor area requirements, including comprehensive examinations where
applicable, the student may begin the formal process of selecting a
dissertation committee.
·
Regarding approved program forms:
The current two-page Approved Program Form will be separated into three
forms: foundation/prerequisite
requirements; research core and major area requirements; and minor area requirements.
The committee approved by a 3-2 vote, the Management
Department’s procedure for faculty to teach 700-level courses and chair
doctoral dissertations. The understanding was that both teaching and research effectiveness are needed to
receive 700-level designation. (Subsequently, a controversy arose concerning
whether a department’s procedure takes precedence over the PhD committee’s
procedure, or whether a department’s procedure only represents a method for
recommending how faculty who have not fulfilled the research requirement could apply for 700-level
designation.. For example, suppose a department’s procedure fails to specify
that newly minted PhD’s are automatically given 700-level status for two years,
while the School’s procedure does. Clarification of this potential problem will
be deferred, and may prove not to be an issue, should the ad hoc PPQ committee
(see below) changes the method by which faculty are approved to chair
dissertations and teach 700-level courses.)
Late in the academic year, an ad hoc committee (the
“PPQ Committee”) was formed by Associate Dean Allen Lee to study the procedure
by which faculty are approved to teach 700-level courses and chair PhD
dissertations. The committee decided to wait until the Fall to submit its
recommended change to all relevant parties. Committee members were Peter Aiken,
Ed Coffman, David Dubofsky, Carol Lehr, Rich Redmond, and David Urban.
Associate Dean Allen Lee attended most of the meetings.
Some discussion took place concerning the adoption of
a uniform policy concerning minor requirements, and concerning foundation
(500-level) courses. These issues remain to be considered by Doctoral Committee
of the next academic year.
Submitted by David Dubofsky,