Graduate Standards and Retention Committee

Committee Membership

• Seven-member Committee: two administrative non-voting representatives designated by the AVP, one faculty member selected by the MFA from among its members, and four elected representatives of the McNichols faculty. All five of the MFA and McNichols faculty representatives must be from departments with graduate programs.

Members

5 faculty representatives

Barry Dauphin, Psychology, College of Liberal Arts & Education (term expires 3/2012)

Jennifer Ruel, Chairperson, Nursing, College of Health Professions (term expires 3/2012)

Sheri Pickover, Counseling & Addiction Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Education (term expires 3/2013)

Suzanne York, Physician Assistant, College of Health Professions (term expires 3/2013)

Victoria Mantzopoulos, Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Education (term expires 3/2012) (MFA)

2 non-voting administrative representatives

Diane M. Praet, Associate Vice President and Registrar (term expires 8/2012)

TBA (term expires 8/2013)

2011-12 Charge

• Develop a list of recommendations to enhance student life, student-faculty interaction and additional strategies or initiatives to support graduate students on the McNichols campus.

Ongoing Charge

• Make determinations regarding minimum cross-cutting admissions-related standards, graduate grading policy, minimum graduation requirements, and standards that apply for the transfer of credits.

• Keep the university community informed of committee activities by providing summary minutes of meetings and reports to (sharedgovernance(at)udmercy.edu).  Information will be posted to the shared governance website (udmercy.edu/governance).   The secretary of the committee is responsible for these postings and for informing Campus Connections of new postings. If there is no secretary identified for the committee, a member should be selected who is responsible for this task.

Initial Organizational Structure and Tasks