Consent Agenda

Guidelines

1. Items eligible to be posted to the Consent Agenda include:
   1. Time Extensions (as deemed straightforward by the Dean's office) 
   2. Appointments to Graduate Faculty 
   3. Minor Program Changes (e.g., language requirement changes; final examination format changes; course substitutions)
   4.  Course Changes
      1. Credit hours 
      2. Type of credit (e.g., from fixed credit to variable credit) 
      3. Number of times a course may be repeated 
      4. Course level/numbering 
      5. Course no longer being taught (dropped) 
      6. Reinstatement of courses
2. No items on the consent agenda will require assignment to an investigator.
3. No discussion of the consent agenda is required at the Graduate Council meeting.
4. The consent agenda will be posted to the Graduate Council Web site by noon on Wednesday one week prior to the Graduate Council meeting and will be password protected. 
5. If there is objection to an item on the consent agenda, the objection must be e-mailed to the Graduate Council coordinator by 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday before the council meeting so that the item can be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda (as required by the Open Records policy).