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smaller, more flexible core. He tallied 44 yes, 8 no, and 7 abstentions. The Graduate
Curriculum Committee (GCC) will start reconsidering the issues at its meeting tomorrow.
(6) In response to a comment from the floor, Dean Elliott concurred that the positive
vote shows that the faculty favor a smaller, more flexible core, not necessarily the
current proposed core. He noted that the proposal was too big a change with too
many unknowns, but generated lots of faculty input. In particular, he noted that
many faculty expressed concern with the proposed half-semester 1.5 credit courses.
(7) Dean Elliott noted that the absence of GCC Chairman Terrence Martell was due to a
business trip commitment of long-standing; he has not lost his appetite for further
discussion about the MBA core.
(b) Associate Dean Phyllis Zadra made the following announcements:
(1) We’re currently running two registrations. The Zicklin School is concerned first with
summer registration to accommodate students in Summer I & II.
(2) Please direct students to study for finals and put themselves on waitlists for Fall
2009. We can't do anything for the fall for another month, until we know what classrooms
we'll have. There are continuing room shortage issues. We'll run the appropriate
number of sections to take care of our students but there are no extra rooms.
(3) Thanks are due to everyone who has been working on assessment issues. Many departments
have been collecting assessment data for their undergraduate programs
this semester. We'll analyze the data over the summer and will report back in the
fall. Faculty and departments that have not done major assessments this spring will
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