Graduate Council

The role of the Graduate Council is to support high quality graduate education. The Council contains one voting member serving from each academic program that offers a graduate degree, as well as the Registrar, a representative from the School of Continuting and Professional Studies and a graduate student in good academic standing.

The Graduate Council's responsibilities are:

1. To advise the Dean of the Graduate School on matters of graduate education, including:
   1. Curriculum and policy requests at the graduate level;
   2. Proposals for new graduate degree programs;
   3. Appointments to or removal from graduate faculty membership, including temporary appointments to the graduate faculty, as requested by the Dean of the Graduate School;
   4. Committees to further graduate education;
   5. Proposed graduate degrees to be taken to the Deans Council.
2. Mentor faculty and departments who are developing new graduate degrees.
3. Undertake special assignments as directed by the Dean of the Graduate School or the Provost.

Graduate Council Members

• Bill Byrnes, Chair
• Randy Allen
• Jeff Barnes
• Matt Barton
• Rick Lambson
• David Lund
• James Marchant
• Tony Pellegrini
• Bart Reynolds
• Gerry Calvasina
• Ammon Jacobsmeyer (Student Representative)