Administration of the College of Graduate and Professional Programs

The office of the dean of the College of Graduate and Professional Programs has academic responsibility for all issues of graduate education at JMU. In addition, the college oversees all continuing professional development programming.

Significant in the organization and administration of the College of Graduate and Professional Programs are the university’s Graduate Council and the graduate faculty body.

The Graduate Council

The Graduate Council is the chief policy-forming and advisory body for the College of Graduate and Professional Programs. Its duties are to formulate, review, and approve or recommend for approval polices and other items concerning the conduct of graduate study at James Madison University and to provide leadership in advocating for graduate education and scholarship of the highest caliber. The Graduate Council actions are reported to the graduate faculty, to college deans and to appropriate administrators of the university.

Administration of the College of Graduate and Professional Programs

The Graduate Council

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