The UA Little Rock Graduate Council is the faculty governing body for all UA Little Rock graduate programs. For details about the Graduate Council’s role in university governance and how the council’s membership is determined, see the Graduate Council charter as it appears in Article III of the UA Little Rock Constitution of the Faculty Assembly.
Members of the Graduate Council are charged with
- Reviewing curriculum proposals, including proposals for new programs and courses, changes to existing programs and courses, and suspensions or deletions of existing programs and courses. The Council makes recommendations to the UA Little Rock Faculty Senate regarding the approval of graduate curriculum proposals.
- Reviewing and approving applications for graduate faculty status that are forwarded from the colleges. Faculty members must be approved for graduate faculty status in order to teach graduate courses, serve on thesis and dissertation committees, or serve as a grad program coordinator.
- Recommending new graduate-level policies to the Faculty Senate, or recommending changes or deletions of current graduate-level policies.
The members of Grad Council serve as an advisory board to the Dean of the Graduate School, and they collaborate with the dean and the associate dean on all issues related to graduate students and graduate programs at UA Little Rock.
Meeting schedule for Spring 2026
- January 28, 3 pm — Zoom link and agenda
- February 11, 3 pm — Zoom link and agenda
- February 25, 3 pm — Zoom link
- March 11, 3 pm — Zoom link
- April 8, 3 pm
- April 22, 3 pm
Grad Council meetings are open to the public. Members of the university community interested in graduate education are welcome to attend. UA Little Rock faculty, staff, and students who are not elected representatives to the council are invited to present questions, ideas, and concerns to the council, although only elected council representatives can vote.
Graduate faculty members who would like to serve on Grad Council should nominate themselves for election at their College Assembly meeting. Grad Council members serve three-year terms, staggered so that 1/3 of the council members are up for re-election in any given year. For more details on the current faculty representatives to Grad Council and their terms, visit the Graduate Council section of the Faculty Senate website.
Student representatives to Grad Council are selected through the university’s Grad Student Association.
Contact the Graduate Council