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Office of Graduate Studies

Graduate Faculty

Associate Members

Eligibility

Any faculty member (including Instructors and Lecturers, if permitted by the department or college’s policy) or professional staff employed by Texas A&M University, TAES, TAEX, TEES, TEEX or TTI who holds the highest earned degree common to that person’s discipline may be granted Associate Member status on the Graduate Faculty of Texas A&M University provided that the individual’s appointment as an Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty will be beneficial to the department’s graduate program. In addition, employees of federal and state agencies located in the College Station area are eligible for Associate Member status. It is expected that a nominee for Associate Member status has published a scholarly work as primary author (or, in the case of a professional discipline, has exhibited appropriate evidence of professional accomplishment). Recognized scholars and authorities whose merits are clearly established need not be measured by standard criteria.

Appointment to Associate Member status is accomplished by use of the Personal Record Form, initiated by the head of the academic department, or Chair of the Interdisciplinary Faculty, in College Station through the College Graduate Instruction Committee and the college, school or Council of Participating Deans to the Dean of Graduate Studies. A non-tenure-track individual is nominated by the head of the appropriate academic department, or Chair of the Interdisciplinary Faculty, in College Station who must present evidence that (a) the nominee (1) has taught a graduate class, or (2) has actively served on a graduate student’s advisory committee, or (3) has held a definite administrative assignment in the graduate program of a university; and that (b) the nominee has published a scholarly work as primary author (or, in the case of a professional discipline, has exhibited appropriate evidence of professional accomplishment). Recognized scholars and authorities whose merits are clearly established need not be measured by standard criteria. Appointment of these individuals is accomplished by use of the Personal Record Form, initiated by the head of the academic department, or Chair of the Interdisciplinary Faculty, in College Station through the College Graduate Instruction Committee and the college or school Dean to the Dean of Graduate Studies.

Privileges

An Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty of Texas A&M University may teach graduate courses and serve as member or co-chair (but not as chair) with a Member as the other co-chair of a graduate student’s Advisory Committee.