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:

Reviewing committee exception requests to ensure they are ready/appropriate for Grad Council review
Validating nominations of UC faculty members from another UC Campus