Review of a Proposal for a certificate in Clinical Cardiovascular Engineering
The proposal, submitted by Jerome Schultz, Director of the Graduate Program in Bioengineering, Harvey Borovetz, Director of the Cardiovascular Training Program, Gerald Holder, Dean of Engineering and George Michalopoulos, Dean of the School of Medicine, requires that students take a six credit ethics course and participate in clinical internships in addition to completing courses taken as part of a masters program in Bioengineering. Graduate students pursuing other masters programs can elect to enter the certificate program but would need to take additional courses, depending on the course work covered in their degree program. The addition of the clinical experience to the requeirements of the bioengineering graduate programs enables us to offer a distinct program in cardiovascular bioengineering. It is modeled on a certificate program approved two years ago in Rehabilitation Engineering. Drs. Schultz and Borovetz presented the proposal and were joined by Associate Dean Larry Shuman. Marilee Salmon asked for more information about the Medical Ethics course which should be of interest to the students pursuing the Medical Ethics track in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science. After the representatives for the program left the room, Council approved unanimously the new certificate program.

Review of the Annual Report of the John P. Murtha Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development
Council discussed the annual report of the Murtha Center. It noted that the enrollments were still low and that there is still a need to clarify the distribution of tuition income to various units participating in the programs.

Distance Education
Council discussed the recent report of the Distance Education Task Force. Council members remarked on the aggressive use of distance education by some other institutions, the difficulty of covering the cost when the enrollments are small, need for strategies to encourage faculty to invest their time in such course. They agreed that the report covered these concerns and agreed that they would continue to monitor what is happening in this area, rather than forming a special committee.

Issues for 1996-97
Ian Reynolds reported that graduate students are concerned about the uneven quality of mentoring by faculty. He asks if the evaluation of mentoring or the improvement of mentoring is an issue for UCGS to consider. Should guidelines be developed? UCGS discussed mentoring in various programs. Graduate students are asked for imput at the time of promotion of a faculty member. Some departments have a mentor for teaching as well as for scholarship and research. One way to evaluate mentoring is through the success of graduates.

Review of New Programs
The guidelines approved by UCGS in 1993 for evaluating new programs were discussed. These have never been used, and seem cumbersome and time consuming. UCGS was asked whether it encourages these being instituted or whether it would advise other procedures. After discussion UCGS recommended that an abbreviated review be carried out by which comparisons of basic data is compared with the projections in the proposal. It was recommended that this be done five years after approval of the program. If problems are seen, a more thorough review could be initiated. UCGS was reminded that all new programs are evaluated as part of the regular review process carried out by SEAP.

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