The mission of the Graduate Council is to promote graduate education, scholarship, and research; to support individuals, departments, and programs in the pursuit of excellence; to foster innovative, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary activities; and to maintain high ethical and academic standards in graduate studies.
Click here to download the Bylaws of the Graduate School.
Changes to existing courses, curriculums, programs, departments, school/colleges, degrees, certificates, and policies, as well as newly proposed programs, departments, school/colleges, degrees, certificates, and policies, are required to follow the University's governance process of review and approval.
Click here for an overview of various types of proposals that must be submitted to the Graduate Council. Some items require a vote by the members of the Graduate Council, whereas other items are considered notification items only. This list is not all-inclusive. If you have questions about whether or not an item needs to be reviewed by the Graduate Council, contact Dr. Tiffany Plantan, Director of Education in the Graduate School, at t.plantan@miami.edu or (305) 284-4154.
Once a proposer develops a proposal, it must undergo a formal review and approval process at the University before the item being proposed is implemented. Proposers develop and submit a proposal through the University's Curriculum Information Management System (CIM). Click here to enter and submit a proposal through CIM (http://next-bulletin.miami.edu/programadmin). Once submitted, the proposal will move through an online workflow of review and/or approval at various levels.
For proposals related to graduate education at the University, the following are the minimum approvals that are required (some proposal require additional approvals):
*When the proposal is routed to the Graduate Council through the online workflow, the proposer will be contacted by the Graduate School to present the proposal at a Graduate Council meeting (schedule below). Following the Graduate Council meeting, the proposal will either be sent back in the workflow for edits, or moved forward in the workflow to the next step of the review/approval process.
Click here to download the Database of Graduate Council Proposals. This database is updated at the end of each academic year.
Fall 2020 |
Materials Due By |
August 18 | August 10 |
September 15 | September 7 |
October 20 | October 12 |
November 17 | November 9 |
Spring 2021
Spring 2021 |
Materials Due By |
January 19 | January 11 |
February 16 | February 8 |
March 16 | March 8 |
April 20 | April 12 |
School/College |
Council Member |
Appointed until May 31 of year indicated below |
School of Architecture | Frank Martinez Alternate: Sonia Chao |
2021 |
College of Arts and Sciences | Patricia Saunders Amie Nielsen Alternate: Olga Korotkova Alternate: Jamie Walls |
2023 |
Miami Herbert Business School |
Vidhi Chhaochharia Alternate: Sammi Tang |
2022 |
School of Communication | Nick Carcioppolo Alternate: Sunny Tsai | 2022 |
School of Education and Human Development | Mary Avalos Alternate: Kysha Harriell |
2021 |
College of Engineering | Charles Huang Alternate: Manohar Murthi |
2021 |
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science | Guoqing Lin Alternate: Maria Josefina Olascoaga |
2022 |
Miller School of Medicine | Fulvia Verde Alternate: Laura Bianchi |
2023 |
Frost School of Music | Lansing McLoskey Alternate: Ross Harbaugh |
2023 |
School of Nursing and Health Studies | Nichole Crenshaw Alternate: Brenda Owusu |
2021 |
Graduate Student Association | Jose Fernando-Calvo | 2021 |