Present:	Allen Bell, Doug Cherkauer, David Heathcote, Connie Jo (staff support), Robert Jeske, Sunwoong Kim, Patrice Petro, Mark Schwartz, Gabrielle Verdier
Excused:	Chuck Schuster, William Wainwright

1. The Chair, Professor Doug Cherkauer, called the meeting to order at 8:33 a.m. in Holton 241.
   
   
2. Procedural Matters
   
   1. There is not a single time that every member can attend meetings. The Committee members agreed to alternate times on Tuesdays and Fridays. Connie Jo will set the schedule at open times that do not conflict with meetings of the APCC and distribute it to members.
   
   
3. Automatic Consent
   1. Minutes #4 (December 10, 1999) were approved as submitted.
   
   
4. Old Business
   1. It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept a change in the MPA proposal that the Committee passed at a previous meeting; the change is needed to clarify that students who are exempted from the Pol Sci 921 requirements take three fewer credits in earning the degree. The proposal is modified to distinguish between a 35 credit Track A for students with significant public or nonprofit sector work experience and a 38 credit Track B for those without such experience.
      
      
   2. Committee members discussed the Master's Program Surveys that had been received. The chair will contact those departments that have not submitted their surveys as yet. Committee members from those departments will follow up with the graduate coordinators to ensure the surveys are completed. Members discussed how to deal with the information. The Chair suggested that some of the data could be put into a tabulated form that would be easy to share with new committee members each year. It also was suggested that departments could update the data each time they submitted a program change. The Chair will draft a tabulation format for review at the next meeting. Members requested copies of the most recent UWM Fact Book. (Following the meeting, Professor Robert Jeske provided the web site address for this information.)
      
      Members also briefly discussed the status of PhD education at UWM. The Graduate School has released a draft report on this topic. Members requested copies; Connie will send those out.
      
   
   
5. New Business
   
   1. It was moved and seconded to recommend to the Dean approval of the proposal for a Center for Industrial Mathematics. Committee members expressed concern over the use of the title "Center" to describe various entities. They see a need to distinguish between Centers, Institutes, and Laboratories. Professor Patrice Petro indicated that she has seen legislation defining each of these. Most members agreed that the current proposal should not be delayed while the Committee looked further into these categories. The motion was approved with two abstentions.
      
      
   2. Committee members reviewed a Committee on Committees draft of an internal College approval matrix. They agreed to recommend the following changes to the CoC: for new graduate submajors, options, concentrations, tracks, etc., an informational copy should be sent to the Faculty; a change in degree requirements should not require Faculty approval; the Academic Planning Committee should be charged with the responsibility of reviewing proposals to rename or drop a department; to establish a new department; to establish, rename, or eliminate a school or college; and to establish, rename, or eliminate a center or institute.
      
   
   
6. Adjournment --The meeting was adjourned at 9:36 a.m.