2014-2015 GAC meetings

3:30pm, Dec. 12, BA5256

• Minutes
• Reminder: New GAC discussion items can be raised by emailing Steve Cook (GAC Chair) or Allan Jepson (Assoc Chair).
• Using Grants to Fund Entrance Scholarships. The proposal is to allow a faculty member to fund a Departmental Entrance Scholarship, for a specific student, from his/her grant. The money would be committed to the entering student and would stay with that student, even if the student decided to switch to another research area and supervisor.

3:30pm, Nov. 28, BA5256

• Minutes
• Reminder: New GAC discussion items can be raised by emailing Steve Cook (GAC Chair) or Allan Jepson (Assoc Chair).
• Discussion (continued) on graduate course offerings. See issues to be discussed:
• High student workloads reported in some courses.
• Late grades, e.g., a planned extra term for projects.
• Grad teaching credits; cross-listed courses, min course size.
• Increase the flexibility of the breadth rules to allow for more non-CS courses.
• Other issues?
• New item (Salakhutdinov and Urtasun). The proposal is to allow a faculty member to fund a Departmental Entrance Scholarship, for a specific student, from his/her grant. The money would be committed to the entering student and would stay with that student, even if the student decided to switch to another research area and supervisor.

3:30pm, Oct. 31, BA5256

• Minutes
• Reminder: New GAC discussion items can be raised by emailing Steve Cook (GAC Chair) or Allan Jepson (Assoc Chair).
• Reminder: Scores for DCS awards are needed from the GAC faculty by next Friday, Nov. 7.
• Proposal: Increase the value of the max stipend used to compute top-up.
• Discussion on graduate course offerings:
• Better bookkeeping and reporting for both course content and when courses have been offered in the past.
• Student feedback on courses has not been provided to students.
• Reported lack of suitable introductory courses.
• Grad course scheduling. For example, do we wish to have scheduling oversight for some introductory courses?
• Minimum course size for graduate teaching credit.
• High student workloads reported in some courses.
• Late grades, e.g., a planned extra term for projects.
• Other issues?

3:30pm, Oct. 17, BA5256

• Minutes
• Oct. 17, 2014 Draft of PhD Committee Meetings
• Oct. 21, Slides for Faculty Meeting
• Status (Nov. 20): The new requirements for PhD supervisory committee meetings have been approved by the department and the Faculty's Graduate Cirricullum Committee. The Grad Office will set up for the implementation of this, with the goal of allowing students to opt into this checkpoint system in the winter term of 2015.

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