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Graduate Faculty Status
- The Graduate Faculty includes all
tenure-track faculty holding professorial (full, associate, or assistant) rank in any department with graduate program authority, including those
faculty with zero-time appointments. Graduate faculty status includes the
right to serve as a major professor and to serve on doctoral and master's
examination committees.
- Tenure-track faculty members are automatically permitted to retain graduate faculty status for one year
after their retirement or resignation. Annual extensions of graduate faculty status for retired or resigned faculty can be recommended by the departmental executive committees for consideration and approval by the Graduate School Dean or designee.
- Tenure-track faculty members in departments without graduate program authority may be granted graduate faculty status by the Graduate School upon recommendation of the executive committee of a department with graduate program authority.
Membership on Graduate Examination Committees
- Without prior Graduate School approval, the executive committees of departments with graduate program authority may appoint either a tenure track faculty member from a department without graduate program authority or a visiting professor to serve as one of five faculty members on a doctoral committee, one of four faculty members on an M.F.A. examination committee, or the faculty member(s) on an M.A. and M.S. examination committee. However, no more than one member of a master's or doctoral committee may be a visiting professor, retired professor, or professor from a department without graduate program authority.
- The executive committee of a department may believe that an academic staff member other than a visiting or emeritus professor should be appointed to an examination committee. The executive committee can without approval of the Graduate School appoint such an academic staff member (e.g. scientist or CHS staff) to serve as a sixth member of a doctoral examination committee, the fifth member of an M.F.A. examination committee, or an additional member of an M.S. or M.A. examination committee. Such an appointed committee member has the right to vote and sign the warrant like other members of the committee.
- Department executive committees may consider academic staff for membership on an examination committee if the academic staff member has a Ph.D. or other terminal degree and has research or practical experience relevant to the degree candidate's thesis or dissertation.
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