Committee Nomination Forms

Departmental and Graduate Division Responsibilities

Department Chairs must sign the committee nomination forms for Master’s thesis and Doctoral students.

• Chairs are signing to approve and confirm that

  • The committee is valid (consists of 3 Academic Senate faculty, with a tenure-track faculty member from the student’s major (home) department serving as chair or co-chair. At least two members of every doctoral and master’s thesis committee must be tenure-track faculty, and the third could be an SOE.

• When an exception is needed

  • If the committee is not valid, but department supports an exception, department can request an exception from Graduate Council. For instructions see: https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/academic-services/committees#Exception-Requests

The Graduate Division Academic Services Unit is responsible for:

• Checking against the Academic Senate Membership List to ensure that the committee is valid per the Senate Regulation

• Entering the committee into our database

• Routing exception requests to the Academic Senate

Full Policy and Procedure on Master’s and Doctoral Committees:

Policy: Forms & Petitions | Graduate Division

Procedure: https://ucsb-atlas.atlassian.net/l/c/GUKcyaBm