Graduate Council
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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 that 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mel Odegard (Chair) | Interim Vice-Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies | Non-rotating | modegard@semo.edu |
| Hayley Love | Chairperson of Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee | Non-rotating | hlove@semo.edu |
| Paul Sharpe | Dean of Kent Library | Non-rotating | psharpe@semo.edu |
| Sandy Hinkle (Proxy) | Registrar | Non-rotating | shinkle@semo.edu |
| Alisa McFerron | Graduate Admissions | Non-rotating | amcferron@semo.edu |
| Kevin Timlin | Executive Director of International Education and Services | Non-rotating | kjtimlin@semo.edu |
| Chelsea McNeely | Director Online and Graduate Services | Non-rotating | ccaile@semo.edu |
| Faculty Members: | |||
| Reshmi Mitra | Harrison College of Business and Computing | 2024-2027 | rmitra@semo.edu |
| Gillian Nicholls | Harrison College of Business and Computing | 2023-2026 | gnicholls@semo.edu |
| Charlotte Cervantes | College of Education, Health and Human Studies | 2024-2027 | ccervantes@semo.edu |
| David Tomchuk | College of Education, Health and Human Studies | 2023-2026 | dtomchuk@semo.edu |
| Robin Smith | College of Education, Health and Human Studies | 2023-2026 | rsmith@semo.edu |
| Corrie Dudley | College of Education, Health and Human Studies | 2024-2027 | cdudley@semo.edu |
| James Newman | College of Humanities and Social Sciences | 2023-2026 | jnewman@semo.edu |
| Debrah Raschke | College of Humanities and Social Sciences | 2024-2027 | draschke@semo.edu |
| Indranil Roy | Harrison College of Business and Computing | 2024-2025 | iroy@semo.edu |
| Suhair Amer | Harrison College of Business and Computing | 2024-2026 | samer@semo.edu |
| Jack Winstead | Harrison College of Business and Computing | 2024-2025 | jwinstead@semo.edu |
| James Caldwell | Harrison College of Business and Computing | 2024-2027 | jcaldwell@semo.edu |
| Emmanuel Thompson | College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics | 2024-2027 | ethompson@semo.edu |
| Rob Ruggiero | College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics | 2023-2026 | rruggiero@semo.edu |
| Amber Cook | Holland College of Arts and Media | 2024-2027 | amcook@semo.edu |
| Nancy Palmeri | Holland College of Arts and Media | 2024-2027 | npalmeri@semo.edu |
| Student Representative: | |||
| Kristina Allen | Student Representative | 2024-2025 | kgallen1s@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.
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