2013-2014 GAC meetings

3:30pm-4:30pm, Apr. 11, BA5256

• Minutes
• Apr 7 draft for PhD checkpoints.

3:30pm-4:30pm, Mar. 28, BA5256

• Minutes
• Minimalist draft for PhD checkpoints.
• Mar 27 alternate draft for PhD checkpoints.

3:30pm-4:30pm, Mar. 14, BA5256

• Minutes
• Mar 14 draft for PhD checkpoints.

3:30pm-4:30pm, Feb. 28, PT266

• Minutes
• Steve E on our depth oral requirments.
• Reviewing faculty feedback on revising PhD supervisory committee meeting regulations

3:30pm-4:30pm, Feb. 14, BA5256

• Minutes
• On revising PhD supervisory committee meeting regulations:
  • Summary slides
  • Slides from faculty meeting, Jan 28, 2014.

1:10pm-3pm, Nov. 29, PT266

• Minutes
• Draft of grad supervision policies taken to the faculty (meetings on Nov 26 and Dec 10).
• Stop advertising Part-time MSc program?
• Graduate course registration limits.
• Graduate Review Panel (preliminary discussion)
• (Cont. from Oct 2) Revise PhD checkpoints to streamline process. Working paper:
  • Checkpoints, Oct 18, 2013

1:10pm-3pm, Nov. 15, PT266

• Minutes
• Clarifying DCS rules about graduate student supervision. Working paper:
  • Supervision, Nov 14 draft
• Departmental graduate student recruiting scholarships.
• Topics postponed for later meetings (see Nov. 1)

1:10pm-2pm, Nov. 1, PT266

• Minutes
• Clarifying DCS rules about graduate student supervision. Working paper:
  • Supervision, Oct 30 draft
• Topics postponed from later meetings:
  • An issue with limited grad course selection in the spring terms has been raised several times in the past. What is the problem, and what are some options here? Current grad course timetable
  • (Cont. from Oct 2) Revise PhD checkpoints to streamline process. Working paper:
    • Checkpoints, Oct 18, 2013
  • Stop advertising Part-time MSc program? (Part-time MSc an be arranged, but is exceptional. The department is not organized to provide night courses, etc., as might be expected for a part time program. Grad office gets many questions asking about it.)
  • Limit number of CS courses for non-degree students?
  • Graduate course registration limits. Limit number of courses an individual grad student can enroll in each term. (AJ's understanding is SGS does not provide us with that service.)
  • Graduate Review Panel: Hear cases and recommend appropriate actions in response to issues with supervisors, grad course instructors, grad students, or the grad office.

1:10pm-2pm, Oct. 18, PT266

• Minutes
• Thanks to all the faculty on the GAC for reading and scoring NSERC PGS D applications.
• Discuss:
  1. An issue with limited grad course selection in the spring terms has been raised several times in the past. What is the problem, and what are some options here? Current grad course timetable
  2. Clarifying DCS rules about graduate student supervision. Working papers:
     • Supervision, Oct 17 draft,
     • Supervision, Oct 22 draft
  3. (Cont. from Oct 2) Revise PhD checkpoints to streamline process. Working paper:
     • Checkpoints, Oct 18, 2013
• Topics postponed for later meetings:
  • Graduate Review Panel: Hear cases and recommend appropriate actions in response to issues with supervisors, grad course instructors, grad students, or the grad office.
  • Graduate course registration limits.

1pm-3pm, Oct. 2, PT266

• Minutes: Oct 2, 2013
• Bring any issues you want discussed at future GAC meetings to the attention of Steve Cook (sacook@cs) or Allan Jepson (gradchair@cs).
• Discuss:
  1. Previous course proposal revisited: Systems Thinking for Global Problems
  2. New course proposal: Topics in Storage Systems
  3. Special breadth rules for graduate applicants with non CS backgrounds (seeking proposals).
  4. PhD Checkpoints: remove MSc paper presentation, move qualifying oral earlier, and require PhD Research Proposal for candidacy.
     References on PhD candidacy:
     • SGS on PhD Candidacy
     • Memo: Sept 2013
     • Candidacy Extension Form
• Introduce topics for discussion in later meetings:
  • Graduate Review Panel: Hear cases and recommend appropriate actions in response to issues with supervisors, grad course instructors, grad students, or the grad office.
  • Graduate course registration limits.

Minutes GAC 2012-13