Graduate Faculty Members and Fellows may teach graduate courses, supervise students enrolled in subdoctoral graduate programs, serve on final examining committees, and serve on supervisory committees of students working toward doctoral degrees. Graduate Faculty Fellows have the additional responsibility of supervising students working toward doctoral degrees and of voting on the nominations of Graduate Faculty Fellows in their department or interdepartmental area program. Upon the recommendation of the departmental or interdepartmental Graduate Committee retired Graduate Faculty Members or Fellows who have been appointed to emeritus status may retain the rights and privileges associated with their level of membership on the Graduate Faculty. These rights and privileges include permission to teach graduate courses, to serve as members of graduate programs, or to co-chair the supervisory committees of doctoral students with a resident Graduate Faculty member. Emeriti faculty can be reappointed annually by the departmental Graduate Committee, and approved by the departmental Chair or Head and by the respective campus Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska.
Any compensation continues to reside with the department.
C. Criteria for Membership Graduate Faculty Member. Graduate Faculty Fellow. In disciplines in which publication is the normal outlet for scholarly work or research, primary must include significant, refereed publications appearing under the imprint of recognized scholarly publishing houses or journals. These publications must have resulted from a judgement of quality by an editorial board. Publication based on the nominee's terminal degree alone is not sufficient, although publication of the dissertation or parts of it is significant if the published version represents a substantial amount of scholarly work in addition to that required for the dissertation.