What is the Graduate Council? 

The Graduate Council is a governing body that supervises all graduate studies at Southeast. Under the leadership of the Provost, the council has primary responsibility for initiating, reviewing, and coordinating policies which affect graduate education.  This council is composed of both faculty and student representatives.  While the council has a primary leadership function, the responsibility for the design and modification of graduate programs rests with the departments. 

Council Membership 

As representatives of the graduate faculty, members are expected to have sufficient knowledge of graduate studies to enable them to protect the autonomy of department offerings and provide responsible self-government within University-wide policies and procedures in graduate studies. Members must be regular appointees to the graduate faculty and be elected by the graduate faculty in their respective college/school to serve terms of three years. 

Membership on the council is composed as follows: 

  • Designated Liaison Officers 
  • The Provost and the chairperson of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate. 
  • Graduate Student Representatives 
  • Graduate students are eligible to serve as representatives within the Graduate Council and must be invited to serve from nominations by members of the Graduate Council.  
  • Faculty Representatives 
  • Two faculty members from each college/school are elected by the graduate faculties of the respective colleges for three-year terms within the council. 
  • Additionally, any college/school accounting for more than twenty-five percent of the total graduate credit hours produced during the preceding calendar year will be entitled to elect two additional representatives to the Graduate Council. 
  • The Graduate Council will be chaired by the Provost and will elect a vice chairperson annually.

Graduate Council Members

Name  Department  Term Expires  Email 
Doug Koch (Chair) Vice-Provost & Dean of Graduate Studies Non-rotating  dskoch@semo.edu 
Tim Schmidt  Chairperson of Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee  Non-rotating  tschmidt@semo.edu 
Barbara Glackin  Dean of Kent Library  Non-rotating  bglackin@semo.edu 
Sandy Hinkle  Registrar  Non-rotating  shinkle@semo.edu 
Alisa McFerron  Graduate Admissions  Non-rotating  amcferron@semo.edu 
Kevin Timlin  Executive Director of International Education & Services  Non-rotating  kjtimlin@semo.edu 
Faculty Members:          
Reshmi Mitra Harrison College of Business and Computing  2021-2024  rmitra@semo.edu 
Gillian Nicholls  Harrison College of Business and Computing  2020-2023  gnicholls@semo.edu 
Kyle Schneider College of Education, Health and Human Studies  2021-2024  kschneider@semo.edu 
Misty Tilmon College of Education, Health and Human Studies  2021-2024  mtilmon@semo.edu 
Sherry Copeland  College of Education, Health and Human Studies  2020-2023  slcopeland@semo.edu  
Scott Brandhorst College of Education, Health and Human Studies  2020-2023  sbrandhorst@semo.edu 
Slavica Kodish College of Humanities and Social Sciences  2020-2023  skodish@semo.edu  
Kristen Sobba  College of Humanities and Social Sciences  2021-2024  ksobba@semo.edu 
Christina Ragain  College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics  2021-2024  cragain@semo.edu 
Haohao Wang  College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics  2020-2023  hwang@semo.edu 
Pam Parry  Holland College of Arts and Media  2021-2024  pparry@semo.edu 
Fred Jones  Holland College of Arts and Media  2020-2023  fjones@semo.edu 
Student Representative:          
Ashlynn Wyman Student Representative   2021-2022  apwyman1s@semo.edu 

Graduate Council Reports 

The Graduate Council documents are broad reports of decisions made during Graduate Council meetings. This typically includes various proposals, motions passed/denied, and follow-up reports of previously discussed topics. 

Location
Office
Academic Hall 132
Mailing Address
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