Graduate Policy Committee

The Graduate Policy Committee considers University-wide policies relating to graduate education. Members of this Committee shall be appointed by the Steering Committee, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for staggered three-year terms. Each college or school shall have one representative; the Colleges of Education, Business, and Social Sciences shall have one additional representative; and the College of Arts and Sciences shall have four additional representatives. The Vice President for Academic Affairs, or his or her designee, and the Dean of Graduate Studies, or his or her designee, shall be ex-officio members; and membership shall include two graduate student representatives from different colleges or schools appointed for a one-year term by the President of Student Government.

The Committee annually elects its chairperson from the faculty representatives. The Committee makes its recommendations to the Steering Committee, which will transmit the recommendations to the Senate for action.

Online Degree Proposal (Existing to Fully Online)

• Graduate

2008-2011
Sudhir Aggarwal, Arts and Sciences
Gary Burnett, Communication and Information
Tomi Gomory, Social Work
Stanley Gontarski, Arts and Sciences
Ithel Jones, Education
Jamila Horabin, Medicine
Dianne Speake, Nursing

2009-2012
Patty Born, Business
Eric Chicken, Arts and Sciences
Ike Eberstein, Social Sciences and Public Policy
William Fredrickson, Music
Brian Gaber, Film/Music
Mark Gertz, Criminology and Criminal Justice
Robert Pekurny, Communication and Information
Rodney Roberts, Engineering

2010-2013
Ron Doel, Arts and Sciences
Rick Feiock, Social Sciences and Public Policy
David Johnson, Arts and Sciences, chair
Yun-Sook Kim, Education
Bong-Soo Lee, Business
TBA, Law
TBA, Human Sciences
TBA, Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance