GRADUATE STUDIES COLLEGE BYLAWS                                                 
                                                                                
                                                                      
11/20/70                                                                        
     Approved for presentation to Graduate Faculty for vote.                    
                                                                                
4/14/71                                                                         
     Reviewed report of the ad hoc committee appointed to study representation from the academic areas.                                
                                                                                
12/2/71                                                                         
     Expressed opinion that it was necessary to have certain criteria for graduate faculty in order to maintain quality control (in reaction to FC objections that the definition of graduate faculty penalized graduate faculty by subjecting them to two different sets of criteria.          
                                                                       
11/2/72                                                                         
     Approved second draft revisions of the Bylaws.                             
                                                                                
4/2/73                                                                          
     Approved revised Bylaws.                                                   
                                                                                
4/16/73                                                                         
     Completed work on the revised Bylaws.                                      
                                                                                
5/3/73                                                                          
     Made final changes in Bylaws.                                              
                                                                                
5/10/73                                                                         
     More revisions.                                                            
                                                                                
10/20/82                                                                        
     GC to draft Bylaws revisions.                                              
                                                                                
5/11/83                                                                         
     Approved distributing the Bylaw revisions to the faculty for their consideration before a graduate faculty meeting.                      
                                                                                
2/15/84                                                                         
     Open meeting to discuss the Bylaws revisions.                              
                                                                                
4/11/84                                                                         
     Discussed Bylaws revisions arising from February open meeting.             
                                                                                
4/18/84                                                                         
     Agreed to a 2-year phase-in period for the reconstitution of the graduate faculty following acceptance of the revised Bylaws.                
                                                                                
11/28/84                                                                        
     Discussion with Dr. Jane McIntyre, FAC Chair, concerning the FAC's recommendation to add a statement to Art. III, Sec. 1, the Powers section of the Proposed Bylaws approved by the Graduate Faculty, to provide a method whereby a graduate program could request an exception to the powers of graduate faculty members.                 
                                                                                
2/27/85                                                                         
     Approved FAC's recommendations:  delete from Art. II, Sec. 1.b, "...who have been nominated by the chairperson of their department...";         
     Added statement at the end of Art. II., Sec. 1.c, addressing the issue of petitioning for graduate faculty status; and deleting the statement at the end of Art. II, Sec. 2.b.                         
                                                                                
10/25/88                                                                        
     Revised By-Laws to permit Urban Affairs a faculty member representative. To be approved by Grad. Faculty vote.                          
                                                                                
3/13/90                                                                         
     Interpreted Section 8.4.3, Art. III. Power a)Sec. 1: "Only "Only members of the Graduate Faculty may: 4)serve as a Graduate Program Director or as a member of a program graduate studies committee." as: A faculty member may not serve as the director of a graduate program or as the chair of a department graduate committee unless he/she is a Graduate Faculty member, and that membership for other graduate committees should consist of a majority of Graduate Faculty members.

12/08/03
     GC determined that Dean Tumeo would ask the Provost to designate Nursing as an Education discipline and Psychology as a Science discipline. Dean to contact the C-M Dean and ask if the Law Graduate Faculty want GC representation.

4/28/04
     Approved the extension of Graduate Faculty status based on medical leave of absence.
     Approved addition of Law Faculty as having representation on GC.
     Determined that representation is by area, not be college and all reference to college be removed.
     Modified requirements for Graduate faculty status and removal of the two-track system.

5/12/04
     Added Sec. 8.4.7 Art.VII. Research Council formalizing Research Council membership, appointment process, and reporting procedures.
     Approved GC By-Law revisions; will be discussed again in the fall before going to the Graduate faculty for approval.

4/1/08
     Approved By-Law revisions regarding electronic ballots and addition of maternity leave.