Jurisdiction over all courses open to undergraduates, whether carrying graduate credit or not, is vested in the appropriate faculty bodies in schools and colleges, and subject to review by the Academic Program and Curriculum Committee. The Council maintains a continuing review of existing graduate programs and periodically undertakes specific studies and makes recommendations concerning continuance, modification, or discontinuance of existing programs and other matters of concern. The Council periodically reviews work of each committee of the Graduate School. Faculty members are elected by the Faculty of each school or college that offers graduate programs, in accordance with nomination and election procedures determined by the faculty of each school or college. Every member of the Graduate School Faculty is eligible for election.
Faculty members serve staggered, three-year terms.
Student members must be currently enrolled graduate students, no more than one of whom shall be from the same school or college. The agenda and minutes of all meetings are made available to the Graduate School Faculty. If a faculty vacancy occurs in the Graduate Faculty Council, the vacancy will be filled by the available candidate from the appropriate school or college who had the next highest number of votes. The person designated shall serve until the first week of the next academic year. If the term of office extends beyond the current academic year, an election for the unexpired term is held at the next regular election.