The Graduate Council provides guidance and direction for the university’s graduate programs.  The Council considers and recommends graduate curriculum changes and new programs; policies on graduate admission, academic standards, and graduation requirements; policies on graduate faculty status; policies regarding graduate assistants; and policies on graduate stipends and assistantships and their distribution to programs.  This council reports to the VCAAR through the Dean of the Graduate School.

Membership on the Graduate Council consists of one tenured graduate faculty member from each college with graduate programs.  Colleges with doctoral programs will have an additional faculty representative from the doctoral program(s).  Two graduate students appointed annually by the Graduate Student Council will serve on the committee.  The Graduate Dean and the Director of Assessment Services will serve on the Council as ex-officio, nonvoting members. The committee elects a chair at the beginning of each academic year.  Faculty will serve staggered three-year terms with no more than two consecutive terms served, beginning with the start of the academic year.

Paul Armah (Agriculture)                           Ellis Julien (Fine Arts)
(2nd Term, 2010)                                     (1st Term, 2009)
 
Russ Jones (Business)                                Erik Gilbert (Humanities and Social Sciences)    
(1st Term, 2009)                                       (2nd Term, 2009)

Osa Amienyi (Communications)                 Mike McDaniel (Nursing and HP)
(2nd Term, 2010)                                     (2nd Term, 2010)

Beverly Gilbert (Education)                        Jie Miao (Sciences/Math)
(1st Term, 2009)                                       (1st Term, 2009)

TBA (Graduate Student, 2009)                  TBA (Graduate Student, 2009)

Amany Saleh (Educational Leadership)       Deborah Chappel (Heritage Studies)
(2nd Term, 2009)                                      (1st Term, 2009)

Tom Risch (Environmental Sciences)           Roger Buchanan (Molecular Biosciences)
(1st Term, 2009)                                        (1st Term, 2009)

Andrew Sustich (Graduate Dean, Ex-Officio)

Barbara  Doyle (Director of Assessment Services, Ex-Officio)

Note:    Committee Members are appointed as follows:
            *  Appointed by the Faculty Senate
            #  Appointed by the Staff Senate
            +  Appointed by the Student Government Association
            @ Appointed by the Graduate Student Council
            % Ex-Officio - non-voting