| 1.00 Graduate Council
The Graduate Council is the Graduate School's policy-making body.
It acts for the graduate faculty and is chaired by the Dean, School
of Graduate Studies. The Graduate Council receives its powers from
the Faculty Senate and has the primary responsibility for the establishment
of standards, procedures, and operations affecting all graduate students
enrolled at Wright State University. All matters concerning graduate
education are conducted in accordance with the Graduate Council and
conform to the policies of the Faculty Senate.
1.10 Duties and Responsibilities
The Graduate Council shall promote the advancement and improvement
of graduate study at Wright State University in all appropriate ways.
The Council shall:
1.11 Recommend to the President and Board of Trustees the approval
of new graduate degrees and programs.
1.12 Determine appropriate standards of graduate instruction, determine
standards for the selection of faculty to offer graduate instruction,
and insure uniform application of the standards.
1.13 Supervise the procedure for approval of courses recommended for
graduate credit.
1.14 Formulate scholastic regulations regarding graduate students,
with authority to dismiss from the School of Graduate Studies those
who fail to meet academic standards. Such regulations shall include:
- Standards, policies, and procedures for admission of students
to graduate study.
- Standards for continuance in the School of Graduate Studies.
- Minimum requirements for graduate degrees.
- Standards, policies, and procedures for graduate fellowships
and assistantships.
- Academic regulations governing graduate students.
1.15 Certify to the University faculty all candidates qualified to receive
graduate degrees.
1.16 Act upon petitions of graduate students.
1.17 Submit a monthly activities report to the Faculty Senate.
1.20 Composition of the Graduate Council
1.21 Membership in the Graduate Council shall be of two types:
regular members and alternates. Alternates may attend and discuss,
but may not vote, except in the absence of the regular members they
represent.
1.22 Membership shall consist of the following persons:
Regular members:
A. The Dean of the School of Graduate Studies
B. The Dean of each appropriate academic College or School
C. The Directors of approved Ph.D. Programs
D. Two members from the Graduate Faculty of each appropriate academic
college or school to be selected by a means determined by their college
E. The graduate student representative to the Student Government
Alternates
A. One Dean's alternate, appointed by each Dean
B. One faculty alternate from the Full Members of the Graduate Faculty
of each appropriate academic college or school, to be selected by
a means determined by that college or school.
1.30 Terms of Office of Selected Members
1.31 Such members of the Graduate Council serve two-year terms, with
one-half of the representatives from each college or school being
selected each year.
1.32 The term of office of such members begins September 1 following
their selection.
1.33 Such members who serve for more than one year (consecutively)
are ineligible to serve again for a period of one year after their
term expires.
1.40 Officers
1.41 The Dean of the School of Graduate Studies shall be the chair
of the Graduate Council and shall preside. The Dean shall also be
a voting member of the Council. At the Dean's discretion, another
member of the Graduate Council may preside as Chair pro tempore.
1.42 The Council may elect from its membership such officers as are
necessary for the proper operation of the Council. One such officer
shall be a Secretary.
A. The Secretary shall be elected at the first regular meeting of
the Council held after September 1 of each academic year.
B. The Secretary shall be responsible for recording and distributing
to Council members the minutes of each meeting of the Council. In
the absence of the Secretary, the chair is responsible for the recording
and distributing of the minutes.
C. The Secretary shall perform such other clerical functions as are
required by the Council. 1.50 Conduct
of Meetings
1.51 All meetings of the Graduate Council shall be conducted in accordance
with Robert's Rules of Order, Revised, in so far as it is consistent
with the Graduate Council .
1.52 The agenda for each meeting will be prepared by the chair of
the Graduate Council and distributed at least five days prior to the
meeting. The Council, by affirmative vote of the majority attending,
may decide to act on a matter not on the agenda.
1.53 A simple majority of the Graduate Council shall constitute a
quorum, except that a quorum for a meeting held between the last regularly
scheduled Spring Quarter meeting of one academic year and the first
regularly scheduled Fall Quarter meeting of the ensuing academic year
shall be one-third of the total membership of the Graduate Council.
1.54 All members of the Council may participate in Council deliberations.
All members may vote on Council decisions. An alternate representative
may vote only in the absence of a member or the Dean from his/her
College/School.
1.55 Any member of the University community may attend meetings of
the Graduate Council. The Council shall regulate the attendance of
other persons. Participation in the deliberation of the Council by
persons who are not members of the Council is allowed if approved
by a simple majority of the members present.
1.56 The Graduate Council shall hold regular meetings during the
Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters.
1.57 The chair of the Graduate Council is authorized to call special
meetings.
1.60 Committees
1.61 The Graduate Council may form such committees as it deems necessary
to carry out its duties. The authority of such committees may not
exceed the authority of the Council.
1.62 The chair of the Council shall designate the chair and the membership
of all committees of the Graduate Council subject to the following:
A. Membership of any committee may include persons from outside the
Graduate Council and the Graduate Faculty.
B. The chair of a Standing Committee must have full membership on
the Graduate Faculty.
C. The chair of the Graduate Council, or his or her designee, is an
ex officio member of every Committee.
1.63 The Standing Committees of the Graduate Council shall include:
A. A Membership Committee to approve graduate faculty memberships
and supervise graduate faculty status review.
B. A Policies Committee to review the policies and procedures of the
graduate faculty and Graduate Council and to propose modifications
in the above when deemed necessary.
C. A Student Affairs Committee which will be concerned with various
matters affecting graduate students. It shall act as an appellate
body on petitions of students for exceptions to University and School
of Graduate Studies regulations, hear appeals of admission petitions,
disburse scholarship funds, study recruitment of graduate students,
and other such matters as may be deemed necessary by the Graduate
Council or the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies.
1.64 Other committees may be established either on a permanent or
temporary basis. |
