{"id":8767,"date":"2019-03-26T12:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T16:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/?page_id=8767"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:52:33","slug":"graduate-council-committees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/graduate-council\/graduate-council-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Council Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Graduate Council<\/h1>\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"Graduate Council\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-graduate-council\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-17947\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-17947\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/graduate-council\/\">Graduate Council<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17938\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-17938\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/graduate-council\/graduate-council-meetings\/\">Council Meetings<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17937\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-17937\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/graduate-council\/graduate-council-members\/\">Council Members<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17939\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-17939\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/graduate-council\/graduate-council-committees\/\">Council Committees<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<h1>Graduate Council Committees<\/h1>\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-tabs-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-tabs  \"><section class=\"cl-tab \"><h1>Curriculum Committee<\/h1><\/p>\n<p>Reviews all new courses and course changes and recommends to the Graduate Council their readiness for approval.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Meenach &#8211; Chair, Graduate School Associate Dean<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jessica Alber, Biomedical &amp; Pharmaceutical Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Donohue, Oceanography<\/li>\n<li>Joanna Burkhardt, Library<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Labriola, Graduate Student<\/li>\n<li>Valerie Karno, English<\/li>\n<li>Ashlea Rundlett, Political Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/section><section class=\"cl-tab \"><h1>New Graduate Programs Committee<\/h1><\/p>\n<p>Reviews all new graduate programs and graduate program changes and recommends to the Graduate Council their readiness for approval.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Meenach &#8211; Chair, Graduate School Associate Dean &amp;<br \/>\nCorinne Kulesh &#8211; Director, Graduate School<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Araceli Bonifant, Mathematics<\/li>\n<li>Ami Vyas, Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Licht, Ocean Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Peter Adamy, Education&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Hans Saint-Eloi Cadely, Human Development and Family Science<\/li>\n<li>Dakota Hunter, Graduate Student<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/section><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\"><section class=\"cl-tab \"><h1>Combined Committee<\/h1><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Graduate School Academic Policies, Standards, and Appeals Committee<\/h2>\n<p>Reviews and recommends refinements to academic policy to the Graduate Council, which is documented in the Graduate School Manual. Reviews and recommends any other matters to be considered by the Graduate Council. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;font-size: 20px\">Samantha Meenach &#8211; Chair, Graduate School Associate Dean<br \/>\nEric Beretta &#8211; Enrollment Services Officer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hans Saint-Eloi Cadely, Human Development and Family Science<\/li>\n<li>Seray Ergene, Management<\/li>\n<li>Marta Gomez-Chiarri, Biological and<br \/>\nEnvironmental Sci Grad, Fisheries, Animal<br \/>\nand Vet Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Brett Still, Natural Resources Science<\/li>\n<li>Bailey Miller, Biomedical &amp; Pharmaceutical Sciences<\/li>\n<li>TBD, CHS representative<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/section><section class=\"cl-tab \"><h1>Awards Committee<\/h1><\/p>\n<p>All council members are part of this committee<br \/>\n<\/section><\/div><\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Council Graduate Council Committees &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":0,"parent":8680,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8767","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24757,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8767\/revisions\/24757"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}