November 10, 2025 – Graduate Program Review Committee – Minutes

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Time: Monday at 1:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Location: Microsoft Teams

Meeting was held online only via Teams

Joshua Mersky, 2025-2026 GPRC Chair

Members Present: Alexa Anderson, Woonsup Choi, Itziar Lazkano, Joshua Mersky, Mark Netzloff, Krishna Pillai, Christopher Quinn, Erin Parcell, Ora John Reuter, Lorena Terando, Kay Wells

Absent: Anne Pycha, Riley Harrison (Policies and Appeals Coordinator, Graduate School)

Guests: Tiffany Nation, Graduate Programs Coordinator; Victoria Moerchen (Ex-Officio, Graduate School); Bryan Porter (Graduate School Dean)

  1. Call to Order
    1:00 p.m.
  2. Announcements
    There were no announcements
  3. Automatic Consent
    The following meeting minutes were approved.
    1. Approval of meeting minutes from October 13, 2025
  4. Revisions to Faculty Doc. No. 3197R1 Graduate Program Reviews (Procedures for Qualitative Reviews of Graduate Programs)

    Moerchen informed the committee that she posted an updated version of the policy with edits per the October 13th discussion which focused on whether internal reviewers would be involved in the hybrid graduate program review accreditation process.  Per the prior discussion, it seemed that for the most part the committee wasn’t going to require internal reviewers but would strongly recommend their participation.  Moerchen shared the policy edits with the committee for discussion and suggestions.

    Discussion took place.

    Due to the sufficient amount of concern of the recent policy edits, Mersky informed the committee that they would not be voting to approve the policy edits today.  Discussions will continue at the December 8th meeting.
  5. Updated 2025 – 2026 Virtual Graduate Program Review Site Visit Committee Member Assignments

    Mersky informed the committee that there have been updates to the assignments.  Lazkano and Parcell are assigned to Engineering, MS/PhD which has been postponed from Fall 2026 to Spring 2026.  Choi and Quinn have been assigned to Exceptional Education, MS and Pillai and Wells have been assigned to Geography, MA, MS, PhD as internal reviewers.  Nation informed the committee that the programs listed under hybrid program reviews have been granted extension per the pending revisions to the hybrid accreditation and program review process in policy Faculty Doc. No. 3197R1.
  6. Other Business
    There was no other business.
  7. Adjourn
    2:13 p.m.