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Each year, one third of the seats on the Graduate School Council are open for election.  Elections are conducted at the end of each Spring Quarter, with the new members beginning their three-year terms the following Autumn Quarter.  Faculty members with a Graduate Faculty appointment in a unit from the larger Group are eligible to vote for the subsection representative.  Graduate Faculty with affiliate or retired appointments are not voting members.

Spring 2008 Elections

Elections for open seats on the Graduate School Council will be conducted during Spring Quarter 2008. Positions will be filled for openings in Groups I (A), II (B), III (A), and IV (A). Nominations for candidates will be accepted until May 1 from: (1) a nominating committee, appointed by the Graduate School, of Graduate Faculty from the group; and (2) a petition carrying the signature of at least 10 Graduate Faculty from the group. Candidates must Graduate Faculty with a primary or joint faculty appointment in the appropriate section (A or B) of the group, while all eligible graduate faculty in the group are invited to vote in the election and nominate candidates.

The University of Washington's Graduate School Council includes twelve members of the Graduate Faculty and one graduate student representative. Ten of the faculty members come from the Seattle campus, representing seven different groups: Arts and Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Applied Sciences and Engineering, Health Sciences, UW Bothell, and UW Tacoma. To ensure broad representation on the Council, each group from UW Seattle is subdivided by discipline into two sections, with one representative per section. UW Bothell and UW Tacoma each elect one representative to the Council.

Primary Graduate School Council Member Responsibilities:

Each Council member (with the exception of the graduate student) serves for three years.  Assuming responsibility as a member requires attending Council meetings for the entire academic year.  Beyond attendance and meeting preparation, there is no additional service requirement.  Council meetings are generally conducted on the first and third Thursday of the month (except when the academic quarter begins during the first week of the month), from 2:30 to 4:30pm.