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. It initiates, reviews, and recommends University-wide policy and new directions for graduate education.

The Graduate Council recommends to the University Curriculum Council the elimination of graduate programs and degrees at Ohio University. (See Section II.D.4.c for procedures for the elimination of graduate programs.) Other recommendations by the Council go through the Provost to the President for final approval.

Four members (three faculty and one administrator) of the Curriculum Committee of the Graduate Council are cross-appointed to serve as voting members of the University Curriculum Council (UCC) and UCC’s Program Committee. The primary charge of these members will be to represent the concerns of the Graduate Council although they will be voting members of both Councils. Through the cross-appointed members of the Graduate Council and UCC, Graduate Council advises UCC on the approval and implementation of graduate programs.

This committee reports to the Provost and President.

Composition

Faculty
14 Faculty - Fourteen members with faculty status (with a minimum of five from doctoral programs and five from master's-degree-only programs)
Students
4 Graduate Students - Four graduate students, including the President of the Graduate Student Senate (with a minimum of one student from a doctoral program and one from a master's-only program)
Administrative
11 Administrators - The deans or designees of the following Colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business, Scripps, Patton, Russ, Fine Arts, Health Sciences and Professions, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Voinovich School, and University Libraries; and the directors or designees of the Center for International Studies
1 Ex-officio - The dean (or designee) of the Graduate College will serve as a nonvoting member.

Committee Roster

Administrators

Danielle Dani
dani@ohio.edu

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

Gabriel Giordano
giordano@ohio.edu

Vladimir Marchenkov
marchenk@ohio.edu
Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts

Brian McCarthy
mccarthy@ohio.edu
Arts & Sciences

Miriam Nelson
nelsonm1@ohio.edu

Shigeru Okada
okada@ohio.edu

Deborah Pack
packs@ohio.edu

Anirudh Ruhil
ruhil@ohio.edu

Eric Steinberg
steinber@ohio.edu

Ex-Officio

Nathan Blackburn
blackburnn@ohio.edu
Director, Communications and Professional Development

Bob Bulow
bulow@ohio.edu
Assistant Vice President for Student Information Strategy and University Registrar

Allyson Hallman-Thrasher
hallman@ohio.edu
Teacher Education

David Koonce
koonce@ohio.edu
Dean, Graduate College

Greg Newton
newtong@ohio.edu
Professor, Media Arts & Studies

Tomy Raimondi
raimondi@ohio.edu

Andy Ray
raya@ohio.edu
Director, Graduate Admissions
Director, Individual Interdisciplinary Program

Katherine Tadlock
tadlockk@ohio.edu
Assistant Dean
Graduate College

Faculty

Jonathan Agensky
agensky@ohio.edu

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

Brian Bradshaw
bradshawb@ohio.edu

David Brown
brownd16@ohio.edu
Management

Leanne Chrisman-Khawam
chrismal@ohio.edu
Assistant Professor, Social Medicine

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

Mike Hess
hessm@ohio.edu
Educational Studies

Neil Littell
littellw@ohio.edu

Kimberlee Orben
orben@ohio.edu
Associate Clinical Professor

Cristina Popescu
cristinap@ohio.edu
Assistant Professor

Beth Quitslund
quitslun@ohio.edu
English

Hee-Jong Seo
seoh@ohio.edu

Julie Suhr
suhr@ohio.edu

Justin Wheeler
wheelel2@ohio.edu

Graduate Students

Nadiah Abidin
na247522@ohio.edu

Patterson Adjei
pa286322@ohio.edu

Justice Bentil
jb458321@ohio.edu

Srijana Katuwal
sk893521@ohio.edu

Lyzbeth King
lk045723@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.