Graduate Faculty
Graduate Faculty. The Graduate Faculty shall consist of all tenured and tenure-track faculty. Visiting and part-time faculty will not normally be members of the Graduate Faculty. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis per approval of the Graduate Council. Graduate Faculty may teach graduate level courses, serve on and/or chair master's thesis and doctoral committees.
All members of the Graduate Faculty may serve as members of comprehensive examination committees, exit project committees, and master's thesis committees. In general, only tenured or tenure- track members of the Graduate Faculty may chair doctoral dissertation committees. Upon recommendation of the unit and approval of the Graduate Dean, a non-regular Graduate Faculty member who brings a particular expertise to committees may chair doctoral dissertation committees.
Listing of Professional Special Appointment Faculty
Professional/Special Appointment Faculty. Upon recommendation by a college, qualified adjunct faculty may be approved by the Graduate Dean to teach graduate courses for a period of up to five years. Each year, the appropriate unit chair or director will submit the vitae of any faculty member assigned to teach a graduate level course who has not previously been approved by the graduate dean during the preceding 5 years. A rationale, including the faculty member's qualifications to teach at the graduate level, will be included.
Each unit with a doctoral program must include in its annual report a summary of its policies and practices regarding the methods of assuring the quality of the dissertations in that unit as well as the outcomes of its quality assessment of the dissertations. The Graduate Dean will review the annual reports and confer with the unit and its academic dean regarding the strengths or weaknesses noted.