Graduate Council
Charge and Membership
The Graduate Council reviews, coordinates, and serves as an advocate for graduate education at Ohio University. The council has both advisory and policy-recommending responsibilities for graduate education. It initiates, reviews, and recommends University-wide policy and new directions for graduate education.
The Graduate Council recommends to the University Curriculum Council the elimination of graduate programs and degrees at Ohio University. (See Section II.D.4.c for procedures for the elimination of graduate programs.) Other recommendations by the Council go through the Provost to the President for final approval.
Four members (three faculty and one administrator) of the Curriculum Committee of the Graduate Council are cross-appointed to serve as voting members of the University Curriculum Council (UCC) and UCC’s Program Committee. The primary charge of these members will be to represent the concerns of the Graduate Council although they will be voting members of both Councils. Through the cross-appointed members of the Graduate Council and UCC, Graduate Council advises UCC on the approval and implementation of graduate programs.
This committee reports to the Provost and President.
Composition
1 Ex-officio - The dean (or designee) of the Graduate College will serve as a nonvoting member.
Committee Roster
Administrators
Patrick Barr
barr-mel@hzjly.net
Danielle Dani
dani@hzjly.net
Aimee Edmondson
edmondso@hzjly.net
Graduate Director, Scripps
Faculty Athletic Representative
Gabriel Giordano
giordano@hzjly.net
Janet Hulm
hulm@hzjly.net
Alden Library
Vladimir Marchenkov
marchenk@hzjly.net
Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts
Brian McCarthy
mccarthy@hzjly.net
Arts & Sciences
Patrick O'Connor
oconnorp@hzjly.net
Tomy Raimondi
raimondi@hzjly.net
Anirudh Ruhil
ruhil@hzjly.net
Eric Steinberg
steinber@hzjly.net
Ex-Officio
Debra M. Benton
bentond@hzjly.net
University Registrar
Eric Muth
vprca@hzjly.net
Vice President for Research and Creative Activity
Greg Newton
newtong@hzjly.net
Professor, Media Arts & Studies
Andy Ray
raya@hzjly.net
Director, International Student Services
Katherine Tadlock
tadlockk@hzjly.net
Assistant Dean
Graduate College
Faculty
Jonathan Agensky
agensky@hzjly.net
Melissa Bowlby
bowlby@hzjly.net
Program Director/Assistant Clinical Professor, Dublin
David Brown
brownd16@hzjly.net
Management
Leanne Christman-Khawam
chrismal@hzjly.net
Assistant Professor, Social Medicine
Ann Bainbridge Frymier, Ed.D.
frymier@hzjly.net
Director, Professor
Allyson Hallman-Thrasher
hallman@hzjly.net
Teacher Education
Mike Hess
hessm@hzjly.net
Educational Studies
Jennie Klein
kleinj1@hzjly.net
Professor, Art History
Neil Littell
littellw@hzjly.net
Kimberlee Orben
orben@hzjly.net
Associate Clinical Professor
Shawn Ostermann
osterman@hzjly.net
Russ College
Beth Quitslund
quitslun@hzjly.net
English
Dorothy Sack
sack@hzjly.net
Jeremy Webster
webstej1@hzjly.net
Graduate Students
Courtney Silver-Peavey
cs600418@hzjly.net
Amrit Thapa
at737719@hzjly.net
Graduate Student Senate President
All University committees follow the academic-year calendar.
All students serve one-year terms. Faculty, administrators, and staff generally serve three-year terms. Ex-Officio appointments have voting privileges unless otherwise noted.