Graduate Academic Committee
The Graduate academic committee shall be concerned with graduate admission requirements, degree requirements, academic standards, curriculum development, the establishment of new graduate courses and programs and the abolition of existing ones, and other matters relating to the graduate programs in the College of Humanities and Sciences.
It should establish regular communication with the university graduate council and will report in writing their activities to the president of the faculty council on a monthly basis.
The committee shall be composed of one member elected from each department, school and interdisciplinary program that has a graduate program, one graduate student in the College nominated by the student government association and alternate, and one chosen by the committee on administration. The dean or the dean’s designee shall serve as an ex officio member of this committee. The chairperson will be elected by the committee for a one-year term; nominees will include all tenured faculty on the committee.
- Derek Johnson (Biology – M.S.)
- Matthew Hartman (Chemical Biology – Ph.D.)
- Soma Dhakal (Chemistry – Ph.D., M.S.)
- Kathleen Graber (Creative Writing – M.F.A.)
- Thomas Didato (English – M.A.)
- Jenny Rhee (English – M.A.)
- Baneshwar Singh (Forensic Science – M.S.)
- Eli Coston (Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies – M.S.)
- Kathryn (KT) Shively (History – CPG, M.A.)
- Annette Loughran-Fjeldstad (Kinesiology and Health Sciences – Ph.D., M.S., CPG)
- Veronica Carabelli (Mass Communications – M.S.)
- Cheng Ly (Mathematical Sciences – M.S.)
- QiQi Lu (Mathematical Sciences, Statistics– M.S.)
- Mary Caton Lingold (Media, Art and Text – Ph.D.)
- Daeha Joung (Nanoscience and Nanotechnology – Ph.D.)
- Michael Reshchikov (Physics – M.S.)
- Terri Sullivan (Psychology – Ph.D.)
- Harold Ogrosky (Systems Modeling and Analysis – Ph.D.)
- Ying-Chao Koa (Sociology – M.S. , CPG)
Ad-hoc members:
- Aja Johnson (Dean’s Office)
- D'Arcy Mays (Dean's Office)
- Matthew Springer (Dean's Office)
Meetings are typically held on the third Friday of each month.