Graduate Council

Constitutional Purview

The Graduate Council is responsible for the total academic policy of the School of Graduate Studies, its programs, and its faculty, particularly in these areas:

1. Appointment to the graduate faculty.

2. Admission of students to the School of Graduate Studies.

3. Admission of candidates for graduate degrees.

4. Requirements for graduate degrees.

5. Approval of graduate curricula and courses.

6. Standards for graduate study.

7. Reviewing and passing on individual cases brought to the Graduate Council by the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies.

8. New graduate curricula and programs, and revisions sufficiently extensive that the curricula and programs are substantially new, must be examined by the Graduate Council. The Council will also properly concern itself Students with the educational philosophy of the University and with the relationship of existing and future graduate curricula and educational policies to that philosophy.

         Minutes                                     Annual Report                  Agendas

       2007-2008                                     2005-2006                        2007-2008

       2005-2006                                     2004-2005

                                                     2003-2004