Membership

• Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, or designee
• Director of each graduate program, except the Law School, without vote
• Associate Dean for Admissions and Administration for the Law School, or designee, ex officio, without vote
• Director of Graduate Admissions, or designee, ex-officio, without vote
• Registrar, or designee, ex-officio, without vote
• Dean of the Carol Grotnes Belk Library, or designee, ex-officio, without vote
• Three elected teaching faculty members serving three-year terms, representing the College of Arts and Sciences, one each from the Fine Arts and Humanities, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. Must have achieved the rank of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, or Professor.
• Four elected teaching faculty members serving three-year terms, representing the following schools, one each from the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, the School of Communications, the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, and the School of Health Sciences. Must have achieved the rank of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, or Professor.
• Two at-large teaching faculty members serving three-year terms, elected by the teaching faculty members. At-large members must represent different divisions or schools and be elected in alternate years.
• Elections to the Graduate Council occur on a three-year cycle. In the first year of the cycle representatives from the College of Arts and Sciences will be elected. In the second year of the cycle, representatives from the schools will be elected. In the final year of the cycle, at-large representatives will be elected. At the May meeting, one of these elected representatives will be elected by the committee as Chair.