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In the early 1990s, the Educational Policy Committee was reestablished to review individual undergraduate programs in a regular cycle and to ensure sustained senior faculty involvement in setting broad policies for undergraduate concentrations. No comparable committee existed for the many FAS and interfaculty PhD programs that flourish under the stewardship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This situation was addressed by the establishment of a Graduate Policy Committee (GPC) to include faculty from Humanities, Social Science, and Natural Science PhD programs within FAS as well as faculty involved with PhD programs jointly managed by the FAS and other schools at Harvard. The major functions of the GPC are: - To advise the Dean of the Graduate School -- and through her or him the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and other appropriate authorities -- on major policies and resource allocations affecting all PhD programs. Consideration is supported by regularly collected data that allow comparisons across programs and inform members of the faculty about the competitive situations of Harvard programs, and about the issues raised by expansions of the Harvard faculty and support for new intellectual initiatives.
- To review graduate programs run by departments, interdisciplinary programs, and interfaculty committees, engaging leaders of each program in a discussion about admissions practices, advising systems, student life, curricular offerings and requirements, temporal guideposts and time to degree, and outplacement of degree holders. Reviews are scheduled in a regular cycle over the years.
- To coordinate with the FAS Faculty Council and the Committee on Graduate Education (a subcommittee of the Faculty Council) on policy discussions, mandated reviews of programs, and consideration of proposed new PhD programs. Where appropriate, the GPC also coordinates with relevant bodies at other Harvard schools involved in interfaculty PhD programs.
Membership - Co-chaired by the Dean of FAS and the Dean of GSAS.
- Two senior faculty apiece from FAS Humanities, Social Science, and Natural Science programs. Some should be faculty involved in interdisciplinary as well as disciplinary programs.
- Two or three senior faculty members who are key players in interfaculty graduate programs, with some rotation over the years, but always including one from a joint FAS/Medical School PhD program.
- One ex officio senior faculty member designated each year by the Committee on Graduate Education of the FAS Faculty Council. This helps to ensure cooperation and free flow of information between the GPC and the CGE.
- The following officials are regularly invited guests: the Dean of Harvard College; FAS Divisional Deans (who may especially want to attend when issues or programs in their jurisdictions are discussed); the Administrative Dean of the GSAS; the Registrar; and additional senior GSAS administrators when issues relevant to their expertise or responsibilities are on the agenda.
Graduate Policy Committee 2008-2009 Members Members
Michael D. Smith
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Allan Brandt
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine
Professor of the History of Science
Margot Gill
Administrative Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Evelynn Hammonds
Dean, Harvard College
Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies
Susan Carey
Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Psychology
Catherine Dulac
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Gerald Gabrielse
George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics Jerry Green
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
John Leverett Professor
Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows
Daniel Jacob
Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
David Knipe
Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics John Stauffer
Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Professor of African and African American Studies
Richard Tarrant, ex officio Faculty Council Representative
Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Xiao-Li Meng
Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Statistics
Timothy Colton (Tentative)
Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies Christopher Winship
Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology Irene Winter
William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts Regularly Invited Guests
Noel Bisson
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic Programs, Harvard College
Jeremy Bloxham
Dean, Physical Sciences
Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics and Professor of Computational Sciences
David Cardozo
Associate Dean, Division of Medical Sciences James Hogle
Edward S. Harkness Professor Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Master, Dudley House
Barry Kane
Registrar, FAS Stephen Kosslyn
Dean, Social Sciences FAS
John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James Logan McCarty
Assistant Dean, Harvard College Diana Sorensen
Dean, Humanities FAS
James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
Frans Spaepen
Interim Dean, SEAS
John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics
Nina Zipser
Dean for Faculty Affairs and Planning, FAS |
