FUNCTION: To advise the Faculty Council and the president on matters pertaining to the responsibilities, rights, and welfare of graduate student academic employees.
COMPOSITION: Five (5) voting members of the General Faculty for three (3) year staggered terms; one (1) staff graduate coordinator for a two (2) year term; and one (1) teaching assistant, one (1) assistant instructor, and one (1) graduate research assistant. Student members shall be appointed by the president from a panel of names submitted by the Graduate Student Assembly. In addition, every year the chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two (2) voting faculty members of the Faculty Council for one (1) year terms. Each fall, the committee shall elect a chair elect who shall be a voting faculty member of the committee, though, if that proves impossible, it shall elect a vice chair as an interim measure, while continuing to seek a chair elect. Each committee shall make an annual report on its work, in writing, to the General Faculty and Faculty Council. The chair of the Graduate Assembly shall appoint one (1) member of the Graduate Assembly for a one (1) year term as an ex officio voting member of the committee. One (1) representative from the Graduate School shall serve as an ex officio non-voting administrative advisor.
Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited)
Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited)
2019-2020 Membership
2019-2020 Chair
Kerry A. Kinney, Professor, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Email: kakinney@mail.utexas.edu
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
To be determined
Email
2017-2020
Sarfraz Khurshid, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mary Jo Worthy, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
2018-2021
Todd J. Arbogast, Professor, Mathematics
Steven Warach, Professor, Neurology, Dell Medical School
2019-2022
Kerry A. Kinney, Professor, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
2019-2020 Faculty Council Representatives
Germine H. Awad, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
Elissa C. Steglich, Clinical Professor, Law
Staff Members
2018-2020
Philip A. Guerrero, Graduate Program Administrator
Student Members
2019-2020
Megha Joshi , Graduate Student Assembly representative (RA)
Madeline Elaine Monk , Graduate Student Assembly representative (AI)
Paige Erin Wheeler , Graduate Student Assembly representative (TA)
Administrative Advisers
2019-2020
Catherine E. Weaver, Chair, Graduate Assembly (with vote)
Dean P. Neikirk, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies (without vote)