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Membership:

• The GCAAC shall consist of members of the faculty with voting privileges, elected from the eligible electorate of graduate faculty.
  • Each college housing graduate programs enrolling 1-999 graduate students will have one faculty representative.
  • Each college housing graduate programs enrolling 1000 or more graduate students will have two faculty representatives.
  • Each college shall also elect an alternative.
  • Two additional members are elected at large from the non-tenure track faculty. One ex-officio member shall the Graduate Dean or their designee.
• Elected members will serve for 2 years.
• Faculty who are eligible for election to the GCAAC must meet the following requirements
  • Full graduate faculty status
  • Have taught a graduate course in the last two years and/or supervised a thesis/dissertation to completion during the last two years.
• Faculty with full graduate faculty status shall select the GCAAC by simple majority vote. Tenure-track faculty are only able to vote for candidates in the academic college they hold graduate faculty status. Non-tenure track faculty shall select the GCAAC non-tenure track faculty representative by simple majority vote.
• The chair of the GCAAC will be elected by the voting members at the beginning of the academic year. The chair will serve for one (1) year.
  • Responsibilities of the chair:
    • Prepare agendas
    • Set the schedule of meetings
    • Preside over meeting
    • Serve as a resource to assist in the development of curricular proposals
    • Review curricular proposals for technical accuracy
    • Sign off on the final recommendations before they are forwarded to the Dean and/or Educational Policy Committee (EPC)
    • Report to Faculty Senate on matters of the Council and items requiring a vote

Graduate College - Academic Advisory Council (GCAAC) Roster