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, Executive Director of the Graduate School, at t.plantan@miami.edu or (305) 284-4154.
Proposers develop and submit a proposal through the University's Curriculum Information Management System (CIM). Click here to develop and submit a proposal through CIM. Before beginning your proposal, you may want to connect with Dr. Patty Murphy at pattymurphy@miami.edu in University Accreditation for guidance and CIM support.
The University Accreditation website has guidelines for proposers, flowcharts, and CIM liaisons listed by school/college.
Once submitted, the proposal will move through an online workflow of review and/or approval at various levels. 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.
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 2022 |
Materials Due By |
August 23 | August 15 |
September 20 | September 12 |
October 18 | October 10 |
November 15 | November 7 |
Spring 2023
Spring 2023 |
Materials Due By |
January 17 | January 9 |
February 21 | February 13 |
March 21 | March 13 |
April 18 | April 10 |
School/College |
Council Member |
Appointed until May 31 of year indicated below |
School of Architecture | Eric Firley Alternate: Frank Martinez |
2024 |
College of Arts and Sciences | Patricia Saunders Amie Nielsen Alternate: Olga Korotkova Alternate: Jamie Walls |
2023 |
Miami Herbert Business School |
Khrystyna Bochkay |
2025 |
School of Communication | Weiting Tao Alternate: Tyler Harrison | 2025 |
School of Education and Human Development | Kysha Harriell Alternate: None |
2024 |
College of Engineering | Abhishek Prasad Alternate: J.P. Bardet |
2024 |
Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science | Maria Josefina Olascoaga Alternate: Paul Sikkel |
2025 |
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 | Patricia Larrieu-Jimenez Alternate: Hudson Santos |
2024 |
Graduate Student Association | Joseph Bonner | 2023 |