The Promotions Committee is responsible for recommending policies concerning requirements of promotion, probation, dismissal, and graduation to the Executive Council. They insure that the current accepted policies of promotion, probation, dismissal and graduation are specified in the Graduate School policy handbook and review grades upon written recommendation by the instructor and upon verification by the graduate program director acting for the program. This committee monitors the policy that all programs issue a course grade at the end of each term, regardless of overall course length and carry out policies concerning application of the grading system. They review the records of all students, evaluate course credits presented for transfer and make recommendations to the Dean regarding the continuation of tuition scholarships for students already matriculated. Decisions of the Promotions Committee are reported to the individual students, the program director, the chairperson of the student's advisory committee, the Dean and to the Executive Council.
Council members serve for one year with elections occurring in the fifth term of each year.
Meetings are held each month. The council is autonomous in the sense that it is elected by and responsible to only the graduate student body. The student council chair and vice-chair are voting members of the Executive Council and two council members also serve on the Curriculum and Promotions Committees. The Admissions Committee includes one student council member. The council serves as a forum for discussion of problems or ideas relating to life as a Baylor graduate student.