Rackham Executive Board
The Rackham Graduate School has an Executive Board of fourteen faculty members who meet semimonthly during the academic year. Twelve are elected for three-year terms by faculty of the Ann Arbor campus, representing each of the four divisions of the Graduate School: Biomedical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Education, and Humanities and the Arts. In addition, the Board includes one faculty representative from the Flint campus and one from the Dearborn campus, each of which has Rackham programs. The Rackham Dean serves as chair and is also a member of the Board. In addition to providing advice to the Dean regarding the operations of the Graduate School, the Rackham Executive Board oversees and approves academic policy, proposals for new degree and certificate programs, and decisions of Rackham faculty panels for student fellowships and awards.
Members of the 2011 - 2012 Rackham Executive Board
- Todd Austin (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2012)
- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
- Nura Calvet (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014)
- Professor of Astronomy, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Margaret Dewar (July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2013)
- Professor of Urban Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Frieda Ekotto (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012)
- Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Marion Guck (July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2013)
- Professor of Music (Music Theory), School of Music, Theatre and Dance
- Martin Hershock (Standing)
- Associate Provost, Office of the Provost and Associate Professor of History, Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts, Sciences and Letters, The University of Michigan-Dearborn
- James House (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2012)
- Angus Campbell Distinguished University Professor of Sociology, Survey Research and Public Policy, Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
- J. Wayne Jones (July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2013)
- Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
- James M. Joyce (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014)
- Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Matthew D. Lassiter (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014)
- Associate Professor of History, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Rita Loch-Caruso (July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2013)
- Professor of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health; Professor of Environment, Program in the Environment, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Research Associate Professor, Reproductive Sciences Program
- Vahid Lotfi (Standing)
- Associate Provost, Acting Dean and Professor of Management Sciences, School of Management, The University of Michigan, Flint
- Laura Olsen (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2012)
- Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Michele S. Swanson (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014)
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School
- Janet Weiss (Chair)
- Dean and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Rackham Graduate School
- Michael Benson
- Rackham Student Government (RSG)
- Tamarie Macon
- Students of Color of Rackham (SCOR)
Other Participants
- Sara Blair
- Associate Dean
- David Engelke
- Associate Dean
- June Howard
- Associate Dean
- Nancy Love
- Associate Dean
- Abigail J. Stewart
- Associate Dean
- John Godfrey
- Assistant Dean
- Shelly Conner
- Assistant Dean