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APPENDIX M
GUIDELINES FOR SERVICE ON GRADUATE DEGREE COMMITTEES
updated 9-19-2022
Service on graduate degree committees is directly related to academic credentials and experience in research and graduate student mentoring. Graduate Faculty members at Purdue University are divided into three major classifications, “Regular” and “Special” and “RS”. To be appointed as a “Regular”, the individual must be a tenure track, clinical/professional, emeritus or research faculty member with a departmental affiliation. A “Special” appointment may be approved for an individual who does not meet the conditions required for “Regular” appointment, yet who can contribute special expertise to the work of graduate students. “RS” is intended for faculty holding regular status at the time of retirement who will not hold the status of emeritus after retirement. RS allows those faculty to continue working with their graduate students to completion.
A primary guiding principle for all requests is that they originate in the department with the Graduate School providing the highest classification requested by the department within the governing classification structure. The latter precept ensures that departments maintain control over faculty status assignments because they know who is best qualified to serve on graduate committees. It should be emphasized that the Graduate Status Policy provides the highest levels possible for a faculty member who meets the criteria. However, graduate status is not an entitlement or guarantee that the faculty will receive the level or status for which they might qualify; the decision of appropriate level of status for any faculty resides with the department and its governing faculty.
LIST OF CLASSIFICATIONS OF GRADUATE FACULTY SERVING ON GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES
GRADUATE FACULTY: REGULAR APPOINTMENT
R.1 Tenure-track, clinical/professional (e.g., clinical faculty, professor of practice, or teaching faculty), emeritus faculty, or research faculty with a departmental affiliation that hold a doctoral degree with a dissertation.
R.2 Tenure-track, clinical/professional (e.g., clinical faculty, professor of practice, or teaching faculty), emeritus faculty, or research faculty with a departmental affiliation that hold a doctoral degree without a dissertation.
R.3 Tenure-track, clinical/professional (e.g., clinical faculty, professor of practice, or teaching faculty), emeritus faculty, or research faculty with a departmental affiliation that hold a master’s degree with a thesis.
R.4 Tenure-track, clinical/professional (e.g., clinical faculty, professor of practice, or teaching faculty), emeritus faculty, or research faculty with a departmental affiliation that hold a master’s degree without a thesis.
GRADUATE FACULTY: RS
RS.1 Tenure-track, clinical/professional (e.g., clinical faculty, professor of practice, or teaching faculty), or research faculty retirees with a departmental affiliation that hold a doctoral degree with a dissertation.
RS.2 Tenure-track, clinical/professional (e.g., clinical faculty, professor of practice, or teaching faculty), or research faculty retirees with a departmental affiliation that hold a doctoral degree without a dissertation.
RS.3 Tenure-track, clinical/professional (e.g., clinical faculty, professor of practice, or teaching faculty), or research faculty retirees with a departmental affiliation that hold a master’s degree with a thesis.
RS.4 Tenure-track, clinical/professional (e.g., clinical faculty, professor of practice, or teaching faculty), or research faculty reitrees with a departmental affiliation that hold a master’s degree without a thesis.
GRADUATE FACULTY: SPECIAL APPOINTMENT
S.1 University faculty members who were “Regular” members of the Graduate Faculty at Purdue University and served but who are no longer at Purdue. This status has a default term of 1-year but is renewable.
With the approval of the academic college/school dean, a department head may request approval for a former regular Graduate Faculty at Purdue University to continue to serve on graduate student committees. Approval for S1 status is typically granted for one-year, beginning with the faculty member’s date of departure. S1 status can be renewed until the faculty’s students have completed their degrees but it is assumed that the faculty are not taking on or being assigned new students.
Note that faculty who are retiring but will not hold emeritus status may serve in the RS classification above to complete their students.
S.2 Research faculty without departmental affiliation, Purdue employees (including LTL, lecturer, senior lecturer, adjunct, visiting, post-doctoral and other non-faculty staff) and non-Purdue employees that hold a doctoral degree with a dissertation.
S.3 Research faculty without departmental affiliation, Purdue employees (including LTL, lecturer, senior lecturer, adjunct, visiting, post-doctoral and other non-faculty staff) and non-Purdue employees that hold a doctoral degree without a dissertation.
S.4 Research faculty without departmental affiliation, Purdue employees (including LTL, lecturer, senior lecturer, adjunct, visiting, post-doctoral and other non-faculty staff) non-Purdue employees that hold a master’s degree with a thesis.
S.5 Research faculty without departmental affiliation, Purdue employees (including LTL, lecturer, senior lecturer, adjunct, visiting, post-doctoral and other non-faculty staff) and non-Purdue employees that hold a master’s degree without a thesis.
Service on Doctoral Committees with a Dissertation Completion Requirement
1. Required classification to be a member of a doctoral committee
R.1, R.2, R.3, RS.1, RS.2, RS.3, S.1, S.2, S.3, S.4
2. Required classification to be a doctoral committee co-chair
R.1, RS.1, S.1, S.2
3. Required classification to be a doctoral committee chair
R.1, RS.1, S.1
Service on Doctoral Committees without a Dissertation Completion Requirement
1. Required classification to be a member of a doctoral committee
R.1, R.2, R.3, RS.1, RS.2, RS.3, S.1, S.2, S.3, S.4
2. Required classification to be a doctoral committee co-chair
R.1, R.2, RS.1, RS.2, S.1, S.2, S.3
3. Required classification to be a doctoral committee chair
R.1, R.2, RS.1, RS.2, S.1
Service on Master’s Committees with a Thesis Completion Requirement
1. Required classification to be a member of a master’s committee
All certification levels may serve
2. Required classification to be a master’s committee co-chair
R.1, R.2, R.3, RS.1, RS.2, RS.3, S.1, S.2, S.3, S.4
3. Required classification to be a master’s committee chair
R.1, R.2, R.3, RS.1, RS.2, RS.3, S.1
Service on Master’s Committees without a Thesis Completion Requirement
1. Required classification to be a member of a master’s committee
All certification levels may serve
2. Required classification to be a master’s committee co-chair
All certification levels may serve
3. Required classification to be a master’s committee chair
R.1, R.2, R.3, R.4, RS.1, RS.2, RS.3, RS.4, S.1
***Guidelines for Former Purdue Graduate Faculty to Serve as Chair of Graduate Degree Committees***
With the approval of the academic college/school dean, a department head may request approval for a former regular Graduate Faculty at Purdue University to continue to serve on graduate student committees. Approval for S1 status is typically granted for one-year, beginning with the faculty member’s date of departure. S1 status can be renewed until the faculty’s students have completed their degrees but it is assumed that the faculty are not taking on or being assigned new students.
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