Curriculum Approval
Curriculum proposals are forwarded to the Chair of the Graduate Council (Chair) by the proposing unit for consideration.
For those requests that have a substantial impact or
involvement with another unit, documentation will accompany the proposal to
indicate relevant discussion and consensus between the units on the proposal or
progress toward resolution of any outstanding issues.
The Chair will present the proposal to the Council for
consideration. After appropriate consideration of the proposal, which may
involve requests for revision, the Council will approve or disapprove the
proposal.
Approved proposals are forwarded to the President for action in accordance with the Constitution, Article V Section 2.
Graduate Faculty
Status
MEMBERSHIP:
The President, the Provost & Academic Vice President,
the Dean of Graduate Studies; and the Deans of all Schools, shall be ex officio
members of the Graduate Faculty. All other faculty must be recommended for
membership by their Deans and approved for membership by the Council.
Members of the Graduate Faculty, other than ex officio members, must be full-time faculty; must be currently teaching a graduate course, supervising a thesis or graduate internship or within the previous three years, have taught a graduate course, supervised a thesis or graduate internship. Graduate Faculty ordinarily possess a doctoral degree in the field of assignment and/or, in certain fields, the appropriate professional degree or license.
RIGHTS:
Each member of the Graduate Faculty, excluding ex officio members, is entitled to vote in the election of their School’s representatives to the council; to vote concerning matters that come up for decision to the graduate Faculty as a whole; and to run for election to the Council.
NOMINATION TO THE
GRADUATE FACULTY:
Nomination to the Graduate Faculty shall be made in writing
to the respective School’s Dean by the Program Director of the candidate’s
academic unit or of the unit in which the faculty member primarily teaches
graduate courses. Nominations must include the candidate’s vita and a brief
letter from the Program Director or Department Chair supporting the nomination
of the candidate.
It is the Program Director’s or Department Chair’s
responsibility to petition the removal of faculty members whose graduate faculty
status no longer meets the requirements listed in the MEMBERSHIP section above.
At the beginning of each semester, the Deans will submit to the Dean of Graduate Studies a list of the new Graduate Faculty members and those who are no longer considered Graduate Faculty members by the definition presented earlier in these Bylaws for consideration at the first meeting of each academic semester (excluding summer sessions).
LIST OF GRADUATE
FACULTY:
A current list of Graduate Faculty will be maintained by the Dean of Graduate Studies. The list will be distributed to all graduate faculty by the first day of October and the first day of February of each academic year. The list will be constructed according to the guidelines mentioned in the previous sections of these Bylaws. It will list the Graduate Faculty member’s name, school and indicate if membership is ex officio.
ELECTION PROCESS FOR
FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES TO THE COUNCIL:
Graduate Faculty are eligible to be elected as Council members in accordance with Sections 2 of Article II of the Constitution and Article VIII. The length of term of an elected Council member is two years. Although newly elected Council members will be invited to attend the April meeting of the Council, terms do not begin until the day after Commencement of the Spring semester. Members’ terms expire on the day of Commencement of the Spring semester. Members may be elected for an indefinite number of terms.
ELECTION PROCESS FOR
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE COUNCIL:
The Dean of the School of graduate Studies will schedule a
meeting with all recipients of graduate assistantships at the beginning of each
academic year, in order to elect a student representative to serve on the
Council. The Dean of the