The
University Senate of
PROPOSAL
06-05
(Voting
Units: Academic
Units)
External
Member on Plan C Masters Examination Committee
Background
Some
departments at MTU currently offer Masters degrees that require only course-work
and an oral examination. There is
no thesis, report or practicum.
This
proposal is to remove the requirement that one member of the course-work Masters
Degree examination committee be external to the
department.
The proposal was developed
by the Graduate Faculty Council and endorsed by the Dean of the
Proposal:
In those departments that
have programs requiring that the student complete an oral examination to earn
the course-work Masters degree, the department will develop policy concerning
whether there is an external member on examining committees. Three members of an examining committee
must be internal to the department. If there is an external member, he/she is a
fourth member. Departmental policy concerning membership on oral examination
committees must be applied consistently to every student in each program within
a department.
Proposal Defeated 27 October
2004