Texas A&M University Graduate Catalog

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Office of Graduate Studies

Graduate Faculty

Members

Eligibility

Tenure track and tenured faculty members of Texas A&M University are eligible to participate as Members of the Graduate Faculty under criteria and guidelines as established by each college, school or department on the College Station campus. Appointment of an individual as a Member is accomplished by submission of the Graduate Faculty Personal Record Form from the head of an academic department or, Chair of the Interdisciplinary Faculty, on the College Station campus to the Dean of Graduate Studies. In some cases, additional approval is required by the Dean or the Graduate Instruction Committee of the individual’s college or school.

A non-tenure-track individual employed by Texas A&M University, TAES, TAEX, TEES, TEEX or TTI with professorial rank is eligible to participate as a Member of the Graduate Faculty. A person holding the title of Lecturer or Senior Lecturer may not normally be considered for Member status on the Graduate Faculty. Exceptions to this will be acceptable only if the person concerned has an unusual or unique contribution to make to the graduate program of Texas A&M University and approval is granted by the department, or Chair of the Interdisciplinary Faculty, college, school and Office of Graduate Studies. A non-tenure-track individual is nominated by the head of the appropriate academic department 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, school or Council of Participating Deans to the Dean of Graduate Studies.

Privileges

A Member of the Graduate Faculty, located at College Station, may teach graduate courses and serve as member, co-chair or chair of a graduate student’s Advisory Committee. Members located at the Texas A&M University Galveston Campus, the TAMU Temple Campus or TAMU’s Institute of Biosciences and Technology-Houston may teach graduate courses and serve as a member, co-chair or chair of a graduate student’s Advisory Committee.

Other Members of the Graduate Faculty located off-campus may teach graduate courses and serve as a member or co-chair (but not chair), with a Member as the other co-chair, of a graduate student’s Advisory Committee.