Note: All graduate committees should normally consist of tenured and tenure-track faculty. Other instructors at University of Memphis, untenured or non-tenure track instructors from other institutions, and unaffiliated scholars, with appropriate graduate faculty status may serve, but only with the approval of the committee chair and by a formal petition to the Graduate Studies Committee providing a full explanation of the reasons for the request.

Although the name is confusing, the form to use for all committee appointments is the one the Graduate School calls the “Thesis/Dissertation Faculty Committee” form, available at http://www.memphis.edu/gradschool/pdfs/committee_form.pdf (pdf).

Every time you change your committee, you must fill this out, get all committee signatures, and submit it to the office and Graduate Coordinator. The office will pass it on to the Graduate School when this is necessary.