Graduate Council
Meetings
Graduate Council meets every Wednesday in Eck Hall, Room 203 from 12:00pm - 12:50pm.
Responsibilities
- Promote, review, and evaluate graduate programs to ensure vitality, currency, and quality;
- Review and make recommendations on all requests for new programs, for deletions of programs, and for curriculum additions or changes by departments and schools;
- Consider suggested changes in Graduate School regulations;
- Consider issues raised by graduate students relating to regulations of specific graduate programs or their welfare;
- Initiate and supervise interdisciplinary graduate programs in response to national, regional, or state needs, or to the desires and needs of sufficient numbers of graduate students;
- Decide on substantive matters relating to graduate programs, curricula, general Graduate School regulations, awards and scholarships, etc., and forward decisions to the Graduate School, Faculty Senate, and the Provost and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs as appropriate.
- In concert with the Graduate School's Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, provide oversight of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Programs, including issues with admissions.
Resources
Curricular Forms
Graduate Advising Guidelines
Graduate Increment Guidelines
Co-convening Guidelines