Graduate Affairs Committee

This Committee shall consist of at least five graduate faculty members and one graduate student in pharmaceutical sciences; a majority of the members shall be faculty with authority to chair doctoral committees. The Committee will be chaired by a full member of the graduate faculty.

Annual Charges to the Committee:

1. Oversee the following aspects of the graduate programs in the College of Pharmacy:
   1. management of faculty membership
   2. recruitment of graduate students
   3. development of graduate program policies and procedures
   4. management of annual reviews or grievances for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows by responsible subcommittee per policy
   5. evaluation and response to external reviews of graduate programs
   6. management and coordination of post-doctoral fellows and their programs
2. Review the necessity of a graduate student handbook for all programs with additional sections of relevant information for individual programs
3. Review college strategic planning regarding graduate education, assessing progress towards stated goals and identifying areas of deficiency with plans for improving them.