{"id":23,"date":"2012-11-12T09:11:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T14:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:03:40","slug":"membership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Graduate Faculty Status BOG UPAA-13 Graduate Faculty Membership<\/h3>\n<p>The Marshall University Board of Governors approved changes to UPAA-13\u00a0Graduate Faculty Membership at the April 2023 BOG meeting. The policy update in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/policies\/files\/2023\/12\/UPAA-13-Graduate-Faculty-Membership-2023-5-26.pdf\">UPAA-13<\/a> will results in meaningful changes for Graduate Faculty and College Administrators. Implementation of the changes will occur over the Summer 2023 semester. The changes will occur as faculty apply or renew their graduate faculty status.\u00a0 New application forms are being developed to facilitate a smooth transition. We hope to have the new forms available on the GC website by June 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary of Major Revisions to UPAA-13<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added information related to <strong>\u201cethical research practices\u201d<\/strong> in 2.1.2.\n<ul>\n<li>Added conditions for removal or change for <strong>breach of ethical practices<\/strong> in 2.9.<\/li>\n<li>Added <strong>IRB completion<\/strong> as a requirement for Graduate Chair Faculty in 5.1.2.8.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Changed the <strong>number of levels<\/strong> of graduate faculty status from four to three.\n<ul>\n<li>5.1 Graduate Chair Faculty (for thesis and dissertation chairs)<\/li>\n<li>5.2 Graduate Faculty<\/li>\n<li>5.3 Associate Graduate Faculty (combined elements from Associate and Instructor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added <strong>\u201cdegree applicable\u201d<\/strong> in 2.6.<\/li>\n<li>Added a consistent <strong>timeline for terms<\/strong> to end each semester in 2.10.<\/li>\n<li>Added a provision for <strong>Emeritus<\/strong> faculty in 6.2.<\/li>\n<li>Related to the lowest level of status\n<ul>\n<li>Removed stipulation that only the dean and not GC approves this level of status<\/li>\n<li>Removed indication that this level does not appear in the database<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Updated the <strong>conditions for appeal <\/strong>under 7.2\n<ul>\n<li>Added a timeframe to appeal a GC decision in 7.3.2.1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Faculty Status BOG UPAA-13 Graduate Faculty Membership The Marshall University Board of Governors approved changes to UPAA-13\u00a0Graduate Faculty Membership at the April 2023 BOG meeting. The policy update in UPAA-13 will results in meaningful changes for Graduate Faculty and College Administrators. Implementation of the changes will occur over the Summer 2023 semester. The changes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}