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Oxford, Ohio 45056
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Petitions that will be reviewed by Graduate Council are due to the Petitions Committee 3 business days prior to a meeting. A fully submitted petition includes the form by the student and a response from the Graduate Director.
Graduate Student Petition Form
Date | Time | Meeting Type |
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Aug. 29 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Full Meeting |
Sept. 10 | 3:30-4 p.m. | Curriculum-Only Meeting |
Sept. 24 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Full Meeting |
Oct. 8 | 3:30-4 p.m. | Curriculum-Only Meeting |
Oct. 22 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Full Meeting |
Nov. 5 | 3:30-4 p.m. | Curriculum-Only Meeting |
Nov. 19 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Full Meeting |
Dec. 3 | 3:30-4 p.m. |
Curriculum-Only Meeting |
Jan. 30 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Full Meeting |
Feb. 11 | 3:30-4 p.m. | Curriculum-Only Meeting |
Feb. 25 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Full Meeting |
March 11 | 3:30-4 p.m. |
Curriculum-Only Meeting |
April 1 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Full Meeting |
April 15 | 3:30-4 p.m. | Curriculum-Only Meeting |
April 29 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Full Meeting |
Each of the colleges or schools offering graduate degree programs has at least one (1) elected faculty representative on the Graduate Council. The remaining faculty seats are apportioned among these academic divisions based on each unit’s full-time equivalent graduate faculty size determined by the number of Level A and B graduate faculty. Specifically, the method of major fractions is used to determine the faculty seats, taking into account the guaranteed seats. Three (3) graduate student representatives are also chosen by the Graduate Student Association to serve on the Graduate Council.
Faculty representatives to the Graduate Council must be faculty in the colleges and schools that offer graduate degree programs. To be eligible to vote in Graduate Council elections, faculty members must hold regular graduate faculty standing of Level A.
Each college or school selects several nominees; the number selected should equal twice the number of faculty representatives to be elected plus one, and cannot be fewer than three (i.e. if only one seat is to be filled). The names of these nominees will appear on the general election ballot.
The three-year terms of faculty representatives are staggered so that one-third of the representatives are chosen at each annual election, both for the Graduate Council as a whole and in the separate academic divisions that hold two (2) or more seats. The Dean of the Graduate School serves as chair of the Graduate Council, while the Associate Dean serves as acting chair in the absence of the Dean. The Administrative Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School serves as secretary. The three (3) graduate student representatives to the Graduate Council serve for one-year terms, with no limit on eligibility to serve successive terms. They are chosen according to procedures established by the Graduate Student Association. However, no more than two (2) graduate student representatives can serve from the same school or college.
Two (2) graduate student alternates who represent two (2) different colleges or schools will be chosen by the GSA. Faculty alternates to the Graduate Council are chosen within each division. After determining the elected faculty representatives, each division re-processes the ballots to determine the alternate. Divisions with three (3) or fewer representatives have one alternate, while those with four (4) or more seats have two alternates.
Michael Crowder, Dean of the Graduate School
Meggan Davison, Assistant to the Dean and Manager of Graduate Student Services
Elise Radina, Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Jason Abbitt, Acting Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Carol Jones, Office of the Registrar
Brian Danoff, Department of Political Science
Erin Edwards, Department of English
Tereza Jezkova, Department of Biology
Elizabeth Kiel Luebbe, Department of Psychology
Aaron Luebbe, Department of Psychology
Elizabeth Wardle, Department of English
Paul Branscum, Department of Kinesiology, Nutrition, and Health
Sarah Watt, Department of Educational Psychology
Michele Frank, Farmer School of Business (Accounting)
Maciel Rysz, Farmer School of Business (Information Systems and Analytics)
Dennis Cheatham, Department of Art
Justin Saul, Department of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering
Matthew Saxton, Department of Biological Sciences
TBD
College of Arts and Science
TBD
Farmer School of Business
Jay Shan, Department of Information Systems and Analytics
College of Education, Health, and Society
Kyle Timmerman, Department of Kinesiology, Nutrition, and Health
College of Engineering and Computing
Andrew Sommers, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
College of Creative Arts
Ricardo Averbach, Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts and Applied Science
TBD
Graduate Students
TBD
The Graduate Council meets at regular intervals or at the request of the Dean of the Graduate School. The following are the duties and responsibilities of the Graduate Council:
The Student Petitions Committee has five faculty members. It meets regularly to consider petitions and to make recommendations to the Graduate Council, which has the responsibility for final action. The following petitions are handled at the divisional level and reported to Graduate Council at the end of each semester:
All petitions not mentioned above should be sent to the Student Petitions Committee of the Graduate Council. Examples of petitions that will be handled by the Subcommittee are the following:
The Graduate School is committed to advocating and supporting graduate programs dedicated to the pursuit of new knowledge and best teaching practices that promote diverse, globally aware graduate students and faculty.
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Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056
GradSchool@MiamiOH.edu
513-529-3734
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