GRADUATE FACULTY

All full-time and part-time faculty teaching graduate courses (other than Educational Professional Development, EDPD 525 courses) will (a) hold the terminal degree in their disciplines or in unusual cases have demonstrated exceptional scholarly or creative activity or professional experience and do not hold the terminal degree, (b) demonstrate scholarship appropriate for graduate instruction, and (c) show evidence of professional characteristics appropriate for graduate instruction. The graduate courses which they teach must be in the field of their respective expertise. Credentials of both annual and continuing graduate faculty are evaluated annually by their respective department chairs. Deans make appropriate recommendations regarding graduate faculty status to the Provost. Faculty teaching Education 525 courses, which are workshop courses designed to meet specific needs in a school system, do not necessarily require that the faculty member hold the terminal degree, depending on the nature and purpose of the specific 525 course.

Continuing Membership — The Graduate Continuing Faculty is comprised of the President, the Provost, the Deans of all Schools, the Chairpersons of all Academic Departments, and all who hold at the University the rank of Full Professor. It also is comprised of all with academic rank who both regularly teach courses carrying graduate credit and have been recommended by their respective Department Chairperson or School Dean and by the Graduate Advisory Committee to the Provost and approved by the President. Each Department or School has the right to establish additional membership criteria which, once approved by the President upon the recommendation of the Graduate Advisory Committee and the Provost, must be met by the Graduate Continuing Faculty in the respective Department or School.

Annual Memberships — Faculty members at any academic rank who have not been designated as continuing members of the Graduate Faculty are members of the Graduate Faculty during any academic year including the preceding summer session in which they teach at least one course numbered 500 or above. Such members may participate fully in Graduate Faculty meetings. The extent of their participation in Department/School graduate affairs is determined by the Department/School concerned.

Functions — Graduate Faculty meetings may be called at the recommendation of the Graduate Advisory Committee, or a Department/School, or the Provost, or of the President. The Provost shall serve as the regular presiding officer. The Graduate faculty reviews Graduate regulations and related academic matters brought to it.