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2.00 The Graduate Faculty
2.10 Graduate Faculty Membership
The graduate faculty, the body primarily responsible for graduate
study, is comprised of faculty members whose experience and record
of scholarship qualify them to offer graduate-level instruction. The
graduate faculty's purpose is to encourage and contribute to the advancement
of knowledge and/or professional practice through instruction, supervision,
and research of the highest quality. Emphasis is placed on the totality
of a graduate faculty member's instructional, scholarly, advising,
and professional responsibilities.
2.20 Eligibility Criteria
2.21 Fully-affiliated Wright State University faculty may be appointed
as full members of the graduate faculty on a permanent basis if they
have achieved (a) the appropriate terminal degree for graduate instruction
in the field, (b) the rank of assistant professor or above, (c) scholarly
accomplishment through research, publications, professional activities,
and/or creative work, and (d) demonstrated involvement in graduate
instruction through teaching and, where applicable, graduate student
supervision, or, for newly appointed faculty, a statement with strong
supporting evidence from the dean, department chair, or program director
that the candidate is qualified to undertake graduate research supervision
and that this activity is central to the intended duties.
2.22 Other fully-affiliated Wright State University faculty may be
appointed as associate members of the graduate faculty for terms of
up to five years.
2.23 Individuals who have been appointed as adjunct faculty within
a department or program at the rank of adjunct assistant professor
or above or other individuals external to the university who are distinguished
within a discipline can be appointed as adjunct full members or adjunct
associate members of the graduate faculty for terms up to five years
and three years, respectively. At each level, scholarly qualifications
and accomplishments should parallel those required of fully-affiliated
faculty.
2.30 Functions of the Graduate Faculty
2.31 Full members of the graduate faculty have the privilege of (a)
instructing students at the graduate level, (b) serving as members
of a student's master's thesis or doctoral dissertation committee,
(c) serving as members of the Graduate Council, and (d) serving as
chairs of Graduate Council committees. Adjunct full members share
the first two of these privileges.
2.32 Full members of the graduate faculty also have the privilege
of directing a master's thesis and may have the privilege of directing
a doctoral dissertation. Adjunct full members of the graduate faculty
have the privilege of co-directing a master's thesis and may have
the privilege of co-directing a doctoral dissertation. In each case,
the other co-director must be a regular full member of the graduate
faculty.
2.33 The privilege of directing a Ph.D. dissertation will be reserved
to full members of the graduate faculty who are also members of a
Ph.D. program faculty and are dissertation- qualified. Adjunct full
members of the graduate faculty who are members of a Ph.D. program
faculty and are dissertation-qualified may be eligible to co-direct
a Ph.D. dissertation along with a regular dissertation-qualified full
member. Each Ph.D. program will establish a set of criteria and procedures
by which selected members of the program faculty will be dissertation-qualified.
These criteria must clearly exceed requirements for normal full membership.
Each Ph.D. program will maintain a list of dissertation-qualified
faculty and will
periodically review the criteria and list of faculty and forward these
to the Dean, School of Graduate Studies. In addition, the Dean may
request a copy of the current criteria and list of dissertation-qualified
faculty at any time.
2.34 Individuals appointed as associate or adjunct associate members
of the graduate faculty have the privilege of (a) instructing students
at the graduate level, (b) serving as members of a student's master's
thesis committee, and (c) co-directing a master's thesis, but do not
have the privilege of directing a master's thesis, serving on a doctoral
dissertation committee as a voting member, serving on the Graduate
Council, or serving as chairs of Graduate Council committees. Associate
or adjunct faculty may serve as non-voting members of a dissertation
or supervisory committee, but will not be considered as meeting the
minimum number of required members.
2.40 Procedure for Nomination to Graduate
Faculty Membership
2.41 Associate and Adjunct Associate Graduate Faculty Membership
A. The department chair, graduate committee chair, program director,
or college dean submits the Graduate Faculty Nomination Form to the
Dean, School of Graduate Studies.
B. The Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, acting for the Graduate
Membership Committee and Graduate Council, approves or denies the
nomination.
C. Written notification of the dean's decision is sent to the department
chair, program director, or the dean who submitted the request.
D. All documents pertaining to the nomination are kept on file in
the School of Graduate Studies.
2.42 Full and Adjunct Full Graduate Faculty Membership
A. The Department or Program Faculty Committee completes the Graduate
Faculty Nomination Form and forwards to college/school dean.
B. The College or School Graduate Studies Committee reviews the nomination
and forwards the form with the committee's recommendation, and statement
by the dean, department chair, or program director if appropriate,
to the School of Graduate Studies.
C. The Membership Committee will review the nomination in accordance
with the School of Graduate Studies policy. Nominations considered
favorably will be forwarded to the Graduate Council. If a nomination
is deferred, a letter of explanation will be sent to the nominator.
D. Graduate Council will take final action on the nominations recommended
by the Membership Committee.
E. Written notification of the Graduate Council's decision is sent
to the faculty member concerned. A copy of the notification will also
be sent to the department chair and the dean who submitted the request.
F. All documents pertaining to the nomination are kept on file in
the School of Graduate Studies.
G. At the request of the Dean, School of Graduate Studies, a graduate
faculty member can be required to submit a current vita or other updated
information, subsequent to his/her admission to the graduate faculty.
2.50 Review and Removal of Graduate
Faculty Status
2.51 Responsibility for Maintaining Quality of Graduate Faculty
A. It shall be the responsibility of each department/program and/or
each College/School Graduate Studies Committee to ensure that its
graduate faculty remain academically qualified for continued graduate
level responsibilities.
B. If the college recommends that an individual faculty member be
removed from graduate faculty membership or omits a previously qualified
faculty member from the dissertation qualified list, he/she may appeal
that decision to the Graduate Council Membership Committee which has
the authority to rule on retention. The faculty member may further
appeal to the Graduate Council which can overturn the Membership Committee's
decision.
2.52 Removal of Graduate Faculty Status for Misconduct
A faculty member can have graduate faculty status removed as a result
of academic or other misconduct. Upon presentation of evidence to
the Dean, School of Graduate Studies, sufficient to demonstrate probable
cause for removal of graduate faculty status, the Dean will recommend
that the Graduate Council Membership Committee hold a removal hearing.
The graduate faculty member may appeal the decision of the Membership
Committee to the Graduate Council.
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