Graduate Council

Members 

2025-2026

Chair: Kathleen Montgomery

• Mark Abel — Education
• Sheila Barnhart — Social Work
• Rusty Barrett — Arts and Sciences
• Tyrone Borders — Nursing
• Amada Ellis — Public Health
• Greg Erhardt — Engineering
• Fatima Espinoza-Vasquez — Communication and Information
• Neal Hutchens — Education
• Dave Jensen — Arts and Sciences
• Kyle Kosik — Health Sciences
• Priscilla McCutcheon — Arts and Sciences
• Pavel Ortinski — Medicine
• Kelly Pennell — Engineering
• Julie Riesenweber — Design
• Howard Roberts — Dentistry
• Michael Sama — Agriculture, Food and Environment
• Jessica Santollo — Arts and Sciences
• Jill Schinberg — Fine Arts
• Doug Slaymaker — Arts and Sciences
• Haoying Sun — Business and Economics
• Jason Swanson — Agriculture, Food and Environment
• Jill Turner — Pharmacy

Meetings & Minutes

• Consent Agenda Guidelines:

1. Items eligible to be posted to the Consent Agenda include:
   1. Time Extensions (as deemed straightforward by the Dean's office)
   2. Appointments to Graduate Faculty
   3. Minor Program Changes (e.g., language requirement changes; final examination format changes; course substitutions)
   4. Course Changes
      1. Credit hours
      2. Type of credit (e.g., from fixed credit to variable credit)
      3. Number of times a course may be repeated
      4. Course level/numbering
      5. Course no longer being taught (dropped)
      6. Reinstatement of courses
2. No items on the consent agenda will require assignment to an investigator.
3. No discussion of the consent agenda is required at the Graduate Council meeting.
4. The consent agenda will be posted to the Graduate Council Web site by noon on Wednesday one week prior to the Graduate Council meeting and will be password protected.

5. If there is objection to an item on the consent agenda, the objection must be e-mailed to the Graduate Council coordinator by 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday before the council meeting so that the item can be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda (as required by the Open Records policy).

    

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Archive

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