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Graduate
Council
Chair:
Members Roster
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Council Web Site
COMMITTEE CHARGE
AUSPICES:
The Graduate Council is a standing council
of the USF Faculty Senate and receives authority for its actions
through that body.
CHARGE:
The Graduate Council is responsible for
advising the Provost and the Dean of the Graduate School of
principles, policies, and procedures affecting graduate education
at the University of South Florida.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The council shall develop its own operating
procedures, subject to approval by the provost. Functions of the
council include:
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Provide for appropriate
liaison with other university councils and standing committees
with functions that may impact graduate education at the
University of South Florida.
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Review all proposed new
graduate programs, graduate certificates, curricula, and
courses, as well as modifications of existing ones and make
recommendations to the Dean of the Graduate School.
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Develop guidelines and
policies for graduate education that ensure the maintenance of
high academic standards and recommend those guidelines to the
Dean of the Graduate School.
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Facilitate selective
reviews at the request of the Dean of the Graduate School of
existing University of South Florida graduate programs and
make appropriate recommendations to the Dean.
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Provide input into the
development of the University of South Florida's "Master
List for Graduate Programs."
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Make recommendations
concerning graduate programs associated with academic centers,
institutes, and other entities.
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Periodically evaluate and
review graduate admission standards and make recommendations
to the Dean of the Graduate School.
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Review and recommend
policies and procedures pertaining to graduate financial aid,
review criteria and applications for University Council
Fellowships, recommend recipients for existing awards, and
recommend the establishment of support that recognizes
graduate student or graduate faculty achievement to the Dean
of the Graduate School.
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Encourage, foster, and
stimulate scholarly research and other creative activity
within graduate education.
MEMBERSHIP:
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Two graduate faculty members
from each college that offers graduate programs. There shall be
an additional representative from any of these colleges having
more than 250 full-time faculty members plus a fourth
representative from any colleges having more than 400 full-time
faculty members. Members of the Graduate Council should have
demonstrable, successful experience in the supervision of
graduate students and scholarly productivity in research or
other creative activity. These faculty members are to be
appointed for staggered three-year terms, with one-third
retiring each year. Retiring members may not be re-appointed
during the year following the last year of their terms unless
appointed to a vacancy on the council (voting).
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Three graduate students, to
be appointed for a one-year term; reappointment may be made for
a second one-year term. Students are full members of the council
with voting privileges (voting).
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The Dean, Associate and
Assistant Deans of the Graduate School (consulting, nonvoting).
If a member of the Graduate Council accumulates three unexcused
absences per year from regularly scheduled meetings, that person
shall automatically cease to be a member of the council and
shall be replaced promptly according to the standard procedures
for nomination and appointment. Excused absences may be granted
by the Chair or Vice Chair of the Graduate Council and shall not
exceed four in number per year.
STANDING SUBCOMMITTEES AND AD HOC
COMMITTEES:
There shall be three standing subcommittees
of the Graduate Council: Curriculum, Policy and Standards, and
Graduate Assistantship and Fellowship. All subcommittees and ad
hoc committees shall report to the full membership of the Graduate
Council and may only make recommendations to the council. Such
recommendations will be voted upon by the full membership of the
Graduate Council.
APPOINTMENT:
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Nominees must submit vitae
and nomination forms to the Committee on Committees of the
Faculty Senate which will review each nominee.
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The Dean of the Graduate
School will select three students from the lists submitted to
him or her by the deans of the colleges and send the names of
the students to the Provost.
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The voting members of this
council will be appointed by the Provost upon the recommendation
of the Faculty Senate.
CHAIR:
The Chair shall be a voting faculty member
elected by the council.
Date of
Adoption: 04/03/87
Date of last revision: 04/21/99
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