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Graduate Council

The council shall review requests for curriculum changes in courses that may be taken for graduate credit, review and recommend approval of all proposals for new graduate programs and modifications to existing programs, review existing programs, recommend regulations and policies for the Graduate School, and assist the dean of the Graduate School in carrying out those regulations and policies.

Faculty:      
Twelve to fifteen faculty members, with at least one from each college with a graduate program

Continuing/Ex-officio:       
Dean of the Graduate School as Chair
Associate Dean of the Graduate School as non-voting Vice-chair
Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School as non-voting secretary

Graduate:       
One graduate student nominated by the Graduate Student Council.

Restrictions: Faculty members shall be appointed by the Dean of the Graduate School from a list of nominees provided by the Senate Rules Committee. The list of nominees shall, at a minimum, exceed the number of openings by two and shall contain at least two nominees from any college without a continuing representative. Faculty members must be Level 2 members of the Graduate Faculty.

Members

• Chair, George Flowers, Dean of the Graduate School – Continuing
• Vice Chair, Maria Witte, Assoc. Dean of the Graduate School – Continuing [non-voting]
• Secretary, Brandi Long, Exec. Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School – Continuing [non-voting]
  
  
• Rachael Sweeney, College of Nursing – 2025
• Jitka Hilliard, Harbert College of Business – 2025
• Forrest Smith, Harrison College of Pharmacy – 2025
• Matthew Hoch, College of Liberal Arts – 2026
• Bryan Beckingham, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering – 2026
• Brian Via, College of Forestry, Wildlife, and the Environment – 2026
• Nedret Billor, College of Sciences and Mathematics – 2026
• Stephen Erath, College of Human Sciences – 2026
• Ya-Xiong Tao, College of Vet. Medicine – 2027
  
• Valentina Hartarska, College of Agriculture – 2027
• Jeff Kim, College of Architecture, Design, and Construction – 2027
• Reginald Blockett, College of Education – 2027
• Kasia Leousis – Libraries – 2027


• Esther Akinrinde – graduate student representative – March 2025

Last Updated:Oct. 1, 2024