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3.3 Graduate Faculty

Graduate education at UHV is designed to build upon the foundations provided in the baccalaureate degree. Programs at the graduate level provide students with opportunities to develop specialized knowledge and skills in their chosen fields. Graduate students are expected to demonstrate and increasingly develop independent and critical thinking and to progressively increase their ability to integrate theory, practice, and research in scholarly and professional pursuits.

The graduate faculty consists of full-time faculty members who meet the following criteria:

  1. Hold the terminal degree in the person's respective discipline(s) or, in some cases, have experience and/or scholarly or creative activity that can be reasonably substituted for such a degree;
  2. Demonstrate participation through presentations and committee work in the scholarly societies that lead their discipline; and
  3. Demonstrate a sustained commitment to scholarly activities through publication and participation through scholarly activities that lead their discipline.

Adjunct faculty members may be admitted to the status of associate graduate faculty provided that they meet the first and third condition above. A limited appointment for teaching a graduate course may be made on temporary basis, as recommended by the dean and approved by the provost, for persons with appropriate credentials for the course.

Membership on the graduate faculty shall be determined through the following process:

  1. The academic colleges shall nominate, as they deem appropriate, additional members to the graduate faculty.
  2. The nominations proceed from the colleges to the Graduate Studies Committee for consideration.
  3. The Graduate Studies Committee shall recommend those candidates determined to have met the criteria to the provost. The provost shall consider those nominees for final approval.