Reports through VP Academic Administration
Membership:
Graduate Dean, chair; deans of schools with graduate programs or his/her designee, director of Records and Advisement, director of Libraries, vice president for Enrollment, two graduate faculty representatives to one-year, non-renewable terms; vice president for Academic Administration, ex officio.
AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY:
Authority to Act:
- To serve as liaison between schools with graduate programs and the vice president for Academic Administration.
- To publish an annual catalog describing graduate programs, including financial information.
- To approve policies for graduate programs entrance, continuation, and graduation and when necessary interpret and resolve graduate policy issues.
- To develop and approve appropriate forms for record keeping for students in graduate programs.
- To act upon petitions and appeals which require responses exceeding the authority of a school dean or the vice president for Academic Administration.
- To serve as the university curriculum committee for graduate programs with the authority to recommend the following:
-
- Curriculum changes originated by the schools for specific degrees.
- Study tours.
- Proposals for specific study programs including workshops and continuing education.
- Continuing approval of lecture series and other special graduate-level study programs offered on a regularly recurring schedule.
- Specification program-by-program of requirements for student engagement in research and/or appropriate professional practice and training experiences.
- Expectations for knowledge of the literature in each discipline.
(The University Senate has the right of review of all actions pertaining to all curricular matters except for editorial and non-substantive changes.)
Recommendations to be made to the vice president for Academic Administration:
To recommend the addition of new graduate study programs and the termination of unneeded programs.