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2012–2013 Graduate Council A4 ADAIR, Suzanne, Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Affairs, Senior Director of Graduate Educational Equity Programs, and Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs 814-865-2516, 114 Kern Building – Ex Officio (email: sca917@psu.edu) PRICE, Elizabeth, Executive Director of Graduate Education Administration and Special Assistant to the Dean 814-865-2516, 114 Kern Building – Ex Officio (email: erprice@psu.edu) ECKHARDT, Caroline, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, University Faculty Senate Liaison 814-863-0589, 311 Burrowes Building, (email: e82@psu.edu) SYLVIA, David, Director of Academic Affairs for Graduate Programs, World Campus 814-863-3248, 222 Outreach Building – Ex Officio (email: dms39@psu.edu) REILLY, Marie, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law 814-863-7033, Lewis Katz Building – Ex Officio (email: mtr12@psu.edu) *Newly elected **Re-elected 4

APPENDIX B, PAGE B1 Proposed Revision of Graduate Council Policy on Doctoral Committees Background and Justification The current policy on doctoral committees, which was revised most recently in May 2011, includes a requirement for an Outside Field Member to serve on each doctoral committee. The Outside Field Member is intended to represent another field (outside the student’s major field) to provide a broader range of disciplinary perspectives and expertise. This requirement can be met by any number of criteria, including membership in another graduate program; formal training/highest degree in another field; research expertise based upon record of scholarly work in another field; etc., and has no basis in budgetary relationship. After the revised policy was implemented, The Graduate School Dean’s Office and Graduate Enrollment Services fielded many queries from programs regarding the interpretation of “outside the student’s major field,” which eventually led to a request for a formal interpretation by the Committee on Academic Standards. The Committee did not intend to change the current policy, but simply wished to establish a standard method for interpreting and operationalizing the policy (with nearly 200 graduate programs, including an increasing proportion of multidisciplinary and intercollege programs, an effective policy that can be implemented is especially critical). However, the Committee noted that two different ideals consistently are advanced for doctoral committee membership: 1) The first is intellectual and served by the Outside Field Member, whereby a different, or “outside,” perspective from the student’s major field is brought to a student’s dissertation committee so as to enrich the student’s research and professional development. 2) The second is protective, intended to prevent/discourage potential conflicts of interest that may be based on any number of underlying factors ranging from power imbalances between an untenured, junior faculty member from the same administrative unit as a senior, tenured faculty member, to personal relationships between the student’s advisor and another member of the committee. This second role is not addressed by the Outside Field Member. In order to reasonably achieve these two different but equally important ideals, the Committee decided that designating two different positions for doctoral committees would be both fair and comprehensive: the Outside Field Member (as it exists in the current policy) and an Outside Unit Member, whose primary appointment would be from a different administrative unit than that in which the student’s dissertation advisor holds his/her primary appointment. With respect to these two committee positions: • The graduate program would have considerable latitude over the designation of the Outside Field Member. The member of the Graduate Faculty serving in this role, and the field that he/she would represent that is outside of the student’s major, would be listed on the committee appointment form, and could qualify as representing another field through any number of means (graduate degree in another field; research expertise demonstrated through scholarly record; membership in the graduate faculty of another doctoral program, different from the student’s major; etc.).

<strong>2012</strong>–2013 <strong>Graduate</strong> Council<br />

A4<br />

ADAIR, Suzanne, Assistant Dean for <strong>Graduate</strong> Student Affairs, Senior Director of <strong>Graduate</strong> Educational Equity<br />

Programs, and Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs<br />

814-865-2516, 114 <strong>Kern</strong> Building – Ex Officio (email: sca917@psu.edu)<br />

PRICE, Elizabeth, Executive Director of <strong>Graduate</strong> Education Administration and Special Assistant to the<br />

Dean<br />

814-865-2516, 114 <strong>Kern</strong> Building – Ex Officio (email: erprice@psu.edu)<br />

ECKHARDT, Caroline, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, University Faculty Senate Liaison<br />

814-863-0589, 311 Burrowes Building, (email: e82@psu.edu)<br />

SYLVIA, David, Director of Academic Affairs for <strong>Graduate</strong> Programs, World Campus<br />

814-863-3248, 222 Outreach Building – Ex Officio (email: dms39@psu.edu)<br />

REILLY, Marie, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law<br />

814-863-7033, Lewis Katz Building – Ex Officio (email: mtr12@psu.edu)<br />

*Newly elected<br />

**Re-elected<br />

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