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Rackham Executive Board

The Executive Board discusses, reviews, and revises Graduate School policies. The Board approves all new degree and certificate programs and assists the Dean in lobbying efforts for increased funding for graduate students. The Board also oversees the allocation of graduate fellowship funds, reviews and revises eligibility criteria for faculty fellowships and research grants and, with the Dean, explores a wide range of issues of fundamental importance to graduate education.

Members of the Rackham Executive Board

  • Diann Brei, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Zhan Chen, Associate Professor, Chemistry
  • Jennifer Crocker, Professor, Psychology
  • Robert Denver, Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology/Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Sharon Glotzer, Professor, Chemical Engineering
  • Sioban Harlow, Professor, Epidemiology
  • Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor, School of Information
  • Deborah Keller-Cohen, Professor, Linguistics/Women's Studies
  • Brad Maki, Director of Graduate Admissions, U-M Flint
  • Edward St. John, Professor, Higher & Postsecondary Education
  • Linda C. Samuelson, Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
  • Malayappan Shridhar, Associate Provost, U-M Dearborn
  • Mary Simoni, Professor, Music
  • Sidonie Smith, Professor, English Language & Literature
  • Janet Weiss, Chair, Rackham Graduate School, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs — Graduate Studies, and Dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies

Other Participants

  • Toni Antonucci, Associate Dean
  • David Engelke, Associate Dean
  • Alec Gallimore, Associate Dean
  • Peggy McCracken, Associate Dean
  • John Godfrey, Assistant Dean
  • Shelly Martinez, Assistant Dean
  • Marilyn Knepp, Policy Advisor to the Dean
  • Homer Rose, Assistant Dean
  • John Paul Stephens, Students of Color of Rackham (SCOR)
  • Tiffany Tsang, Rackham Student Government (RSG) Student Representative