Graduate Faculty Status

Graduate Faculty Status

(UNT policy 06.026) Graduate Faculty Membership | University Policy Office (unt.edu)

All faculty members who formally mentor graduate students in any capacity (including recital grading), are required to be members of the University Graduate Faculty. Tenure-track / tenured faculty are typically full members by default, which allows them to serve as a major professor and thus chair an advisory committee. Lecturers and adjuncts are eligible to be nominated for associate membership only, which allows them to serve as related-field professor or as a committee member. Division chairs (and the GPDC for performance division faculty) are responsible for nominating new faculty for full or associate membership. Nominations are reviewed by the College of Music Graduate Council and forwarded to the Toulouse Graduate School.  Nominations are considered by the GPDC and the College of Music Graduate Council during the first meeting of each long semester.