This OP will be reviewed again in 2002. The Graduate Council, assisted by the graduate faculty, is responsible for recommending policy regarding standards, criteria, regulations, and procedures for graduate education. These policies are administered by the Dean of the Graduate School. The Dean of the Graduate School is ex officio chairperson of the council, associate and assistant deans are ex officio and nonvoting members as is the Provost or a designated representative, the Dean of Libraries, and a representative from the Health Sciences Center. Elective members serve for a period of three years and are not eligible for immediate reelection unless they have been chosen to fill an unexpired term.
Appointive members serve for two years.
By a system of rotation, some new members join the council each year, replacing those whose terms of office have expired. One nonvoting graduate student member is chosen annually by the Dean of the Graduate School. The Graduate Council meets once during the summer. Three committees of the Graduate Council, each chaired by an associate dean or an assistant dean, make recommendations to the Council. Those committees are the Committee on Graduate Faculty, the Committee on Student Affairs, and the Committee on Academic Programs.