An individual first appointed as a general member can subsequently receive endorsement to chair doctoral supervisory committees. Graduate faculty must hold the rank of assistant professor, associate professor, or professor. Instructors, lecturers and tho se in acting appointments are not eligible. Affiliate, research, clinical faculty and senior lecturers, deemed appropriate by the electing unit, may be elected for a five-year, renewable term. It is the responsibility of each department and degree-granting unit to articulate the criteria for graduate faculty membership and for endorsement to chair doctoral supervisory committees.
Minimum criteria follow.
All members of the graduate faculty within the graduate degree-granting unit vote on nominations of proposed members. For endorsement to chair doctoral supervisory committees , voting is restricted to graduate faculty members within the degree-granting unit holding the endorsement to chair doctoral supervisory committees. In addition to fulfilling the criteria for general graduate faculty membership, endorsement to chair doctoral supervisory committees or serve as the Graduate School Representative on doctoral committees also requires recent evidence of the qualities deemed necessary by the sponsoring unit to fulfill that role. Assistant Professors of promise who are early in their careers and who are deemed to be especially important to doctoral education in a particular program may be granted endorsement to chair doctoral committees. Such arrangements are welcome, not only for those being appointed at senior ranks, but also for assistant professors who have already established an appropriate record.