Committee Nomination Workflow on Gradpoint

Departmental and Graduate Division Responsibilities

Department Chairs must approve the committee nomination workflows for Master’s thesis and Doctoral students.

Chairs are approving to 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
Find more detailed instructions about the workflow here.

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