Graduate Faculty Membership Information
All tenure-track and tenured faculty members are automatically members of the graduate faculty. To direct dissertations, faculty must have a departmental endorsement granted after one of the kinds of review specified in the policy. Departments should send a brief memo to the University Graduate School (111 Kirkwood Hall) recommending the appointment. At least half the members of each dissertation committee must have the endorsement to direct doctoral dissertations.
Current associate members of the graduate faculty will automatically become members of the graduate faculty; current full members will become members with the endorsement to direct doctoral dissertations.
Please contact Associate Dean David Daleke (daleke AT indiana.edu) or Administrative Assistant Yvonne Dwigans (ylivings AT indiana.edu; 5-8852) if you have any questions.
PROCEDURES FOR NOMINATING FACULTY TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE GRADUATE FACULTY
(approved by the Graduate Council, Oct. 4, 2004)All tenure-track faculty are granted graduate faculty status at the time of appointment. Non-tenure-track faculty or other appointees (such as research scientists) can also be appointed to graduate faculty status for a term not to exceed their employment contract; the nominating department should send a brief memo and a copy of the faculty member's vita.
An endorsement to chair doctoral dissertation committees is granted separately from graduate faculty status by a vote of a departmental advisory or steering committee, or by a majority vote of the departmental graduate faculty with the endorsement in a program or department authorized to offer the PhD, or by some other review process appropriate for the unit. Faculty who receive this endorsement must hold a regular faculty appointment at Indiana University, but do not necessarily have to hold that appointment within the unit conferring the endorsement. However, if the faculty member is appointed outside the unit conferring the endorsement, s/he must participate substantially in doctoral education within the department or program conferring the endorsement. The program director or chair shall notify the Dean of Graduate Studies of the election of the faculty to this status.
In addition, graduate faculty status with or without endorsement to chair PhD dissertation committees may be granted by the Dean of Graduate Studies upon successful petition by the head of the faculty member's unit. The head should send a brief memo explaining the request with a copy of the vita.
Current full members of the graduate faculty will become members of the graduate faculty with the endorsement to chair doctoral committees; current associate members will become members of the graduate faculty.
Graduate faculty status can be revoked for egregious behavior or scholarly or scientific misconduct by the Dean of Graduate Studies upon the recommendation of the Graduate School Council.
