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University Council Minutes – November 2024 – APPROVED

Tuesday, November 12, 2024
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Zoom Meeting

Call to Order: 3:30 p.m.

MEMBERS PRESENT: Susan Weeks, Nichole Mancone Fisher, David E. Allen, Kathy Cavins-Tull, Jennifer Eaker, Kylo-Patrick Hart, Tracy Hull, Charity Ketu, Jo Anne Leuck, Laurel Lynch, Wendy Macias, Dominic Mendlik, Johnny Nhan, Ron Pitcock, Nelis Potgieter, Jan Quesada, David Sandell, Ashley Tull, Amy Tully, Sonja Watson, Christopher Watts, Xiaoyan Wen, Reginald Wilburn, Dan Williams, Floyd Wormley

Guest: Melissa Clayton, Cathan Coghlan, Lynn Flahive, Ross House, Gabe Huddleston, Michael Justiss, Suzy Lockwood, Kimberly Posey

Welcome and Introductions: Susan Weeks

Meeting minutes from October 15, 2024 – A request was made to discuss these minutes prior to voting.  The question was raised about the minutes, not including the specific comments made by committee members about each agenda item.  A discussion was held about recording discussion items, without specific comment attribution.  Decisions were made to:

  1. Place the prior meeting minutes on the Consent Agenda for each meeting to allow a request to be made to move them to the regular agenda, when desired.
  2. Defer voting on the October 15, 2024 minutes until the February 2025 meeting.
  3. Use a format of University Council meeting minutes indicating discussion items, without attribution of specific comments.

CONSENT AGENDA – APPROVED

Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences

NURS-MSN – Change in program requirements

REGULAR AGENDA – APPROVED

TCU Global Annual Updates – A request was made to move this proposal from Consent Agenda to Regular Agenda. A request was also made to include an average number of students for each program in the updates for future years.  Vice Provost Weeks agreed to share this request with Dr. AnneLiese Busch, Director of TCU Global.

New Programs

College of Education

Certificate in Health Professions Education (CHPE) – documents

Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences

Doctor of Occupational Therapy

Other Discussion

A question was raised about the use of Qualtrics for voting on agenda items. The decision was made to use Qualtrics for voting for this meeting, and to continue the discussion about voting methods during the next meeting. Vice Provost Weeks indicated her willingness to accept a proposal for discussion/decision making regarding voting during the February meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:54pm