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. They initiate, review, and recommend University-wide policy for graduate education.

The Graduate Council recommends to the University Curriculum Council the initiation, implementation, and elimination of graduate programs and degrees at Ohio University. Other recommendations by the Council go through the Provost to the President for final approval.

The composition of the Graduate Council represents both those departments granting Ph.D. degrees and those departments offering only Master's degrees.

Composition

Faculty
14 Voting; Minimum of 5 from Doctoral Programs and 5 from Master's-Only Programs
Students
4 Voting Graduate Students; 3 Voting including the President of Graduate Student Senate; 2 At Large, with a minimum of 1 student from a doctoral program and one from a master's-only program, and 1 Alternate
Administrative
Voting: Deans or Designees of the following colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business, Scripps, Patton, Russ, Fine Arts, Health Services and Professions, University Libraries, Heritage Osteopathic (HOM); and the directors and designees of the Center for International Studies and the Voinovich School Non-Voting: Graduate College Dean, Assistant Dean, Associate Dean, Director of International Student Services, and Director of Professional Development and Communications

Committee Roster

Faculty

Melissa Bowlby
bowlby@ohio.edu
Program Director/Assistant Clinical Professor, Dublin

Gordon Brooks
brooksg@ohio.edu
Education Studies, Graduate Program

David Brown
brownd16@ohio.edu
Management

Charlotte Elster
elster@ohio.edu
Physics/Astronomy

Ann Bainbridge Frymier, Ed.D.
frymier@ohio.edu
Director, Professor

Allyson Hallman-Thrasher
hallman@ohio.edu
Teacher Education

Lesli Johnson
johnsol2@ohio.edu
Voinovich School

Neil Littell
littellw@ohio.edu

Peter Mather
matherp@ohio.edu
Professor, Counseling and Higher Education

Kimberlee Orben
orben@ohio.edu
Associate Clinical Professor

Shawn Ostermann
osterman@ohio.edu
Russ College

Beth Quitslund
quitslun@ohio.edu
English

Kelley Walton
waltonk@ohio.edu
Sports Administration

Jeremy Webster
webstej1@ohio.edu

Administrators

Patrick Barr
barr-mel@ohio.edu

Aimee Edmondson
edmondso@ohio.edu
Graduate Director, Scripps
Faculty Athletic Representative

Gabriel Giordano
giordano@ohio.edu

Laura Harrison
harrisol@ohio.edu
Counseling and Higher Education

Janet Hulm
hulm@ohio.edu
Alden Library

David LaPalombara
lapalomb@ohio.edu

Brian McCarthy
mccarthy@ohio.edu
Arts & Sciences

Patrick O'Connor
oconnorp@ohio.edu

Tomy Raimondi
raimondi@ohio.edu

Anirudh Ruhil
ruhil@ohio.edu

Eric Steinberg
steinber@ohio.edu

Ex-Officio

Debra M. Benton
bentond@ohio.edu
University Registrar

David Koonce
koonce@ohio.edu
Interim Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and Interim Dean of the Graduate College

Greg Newton
newtong@ohio.edu

Andy Ray
raya@ohio.edu
Director, International Student Services

Katherine Tadlock
tadlockk@ohio.edu
Assistant Dean
Graduate College

Graduate Students

Jaxon Adams
ja129620@ohio.edu

Kubra Civan
kc581719@ohio.edu
Graduate Student Senate President

Courtney Silver-Peavey
cs600418@ohio.edu

Sam Smith
ss905715@ohio.edu

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.