GRADUATE STUDIES COLLEGE AND DEAN 1/15/71 President met with GC to discuss general guidelines with regards to the role, qualifications, personality traits, and challenges to be faced by a graduate dean. Approved formation of 6-member search committee (no more than 2 members from any one University sub-section) to be elected by the Graduate Faculty. 11/2/72 Discussed duties of the Dean's Office. Agreed on the need for a larger staff. 12/7/72 Agreed that the Dean should not examine the credentials of non-graduate faculty members up for promotion/tenure. GC undecided as to what extent the Dean should influence who becomes a graduate faculty member and the promotion/tenure of graduate faculty. 10/16/74 Discussed establishing a committee structure within Graduate Studies. Decided that committee should be 7 members. 10/23/74 Research & Creative Activities, Admissions & Standards, Petitions, and Education Committees membership selected. 1/29/75 Decided that the problem of foreign student financial solvency was an individual, not an institutional, problem and that its not Graduate Studies' function to individually notify foreign students that no support funds are available. 1/21/76 Approved including M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. graduates under the appropriate college at the June commencement. 11/17/76 Role and status document for graduate students discussed. 3/16/77 Recommendation concerning graduate programs informing the Graduate Office of a graduate student's significant achievement (i.e. admittance to candidacy, passing comprehensive examinations successful oral defense of thesis) approved. 10/12/77 Recruitment of graduate students discussed. 1/18/78 Recruitment of graduate students and financial aid discussed. 3/8/78 Discussed memo draft to graduate depts. on recruitment monies. 3/15/78 Guidelines on using money available to each graduate program to aid promotional efforts discussed. 2/14/79 Dean sought GC's advice of publication support for scholarly works not in the form of publication in a journal. 10/10/79 Drs. Clement & Messineo offered to assist the Dean in revising the the Graduate College mission statement. 10/17/79 Decided Mission Statement should concentrate on the Graduate College, emphsizing CSU's urban environment to allow flexibility to later address specifics of goals, particularly student recruitment. 11/14/79 Mission Statement adopted. 10/8/80 Discussed the advisability and obligation of CSU to inform prospective applicants of employment opportunity in the field in which they intend to study. 10/20/82 Discussed and acted on requests for recruitment/promotion support. 11/15/82 Continued discussion and actions on recruitment/promotion support requests. 12/15/82 Continued discussion and actions on recruitment/promotion support requests. 10/19/83 Discussed graduate student recruitment. 1/18/84 Approved promotion/recruitment funding proposals. 10/3/84 Discussed Graduate Studies providing international travel assistance. 10/17/84 Discussed draft guidelines for Graduate Studies providing international travel assistance. 10/16/86 UPC review of the Graduate Dean discussed. 1/20/87 Graduate recruitment matter discussed to generate suggestions 11/4/87 Decided that course offering advertisements should not be restricted in any way whatsoever except they should honestly reflect the graduate offering. 1/12/88 Current efforts at minority recruitment discussed. 1/26/88 Discussed the Civic Committee recommendations and Graduate College efforts at improving minority student recruitment. 2/9/88 Felt rather than the Graduate Dean's Office administering assistantship funding for minority graduate students, the responsibility should continue with the academic units. Felt that it would be an excellent incentive for departments to recruit minority graduate students should Graduate College provide support for any minority candidates selected. 4/5/88 Further discussion on response to the Civic Committee report. Approved the Underrepresented Minority Graduate Fellowship and the Underrepresented Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship programs. 4/19/88 Further discussion on responses to the Civic Committee report, including the Underrepresented Minority Summer Research Partctpation Program and the Underrepresented Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship program. Discussed recent graduate student recruitment initatives.