The University bestows the designation "Graduate Faculty" upon faculty following review of their credentials and recommendation by their colleagues. The University maintains six levels of graduate faculty: (1) Full, (2) Associate, (3) Adjunct, (4) Adjunct Research Co-Mentor, (5) Affiliate, and (6) Adjunct Teaching.

Only Full graduate faculty members may chair doctoral committees. Adjunct Research Co-Mentor members may serve as co-chair of a master's or doctoral committee. Full or Associate graduate faculty may chair master's committees. Only one adjunct or affiliate graduate faculty member may serve as a voting member on any master's or doctoral committee.

Teaching adjunct members may not serve on graduate committees.

GLORIA D. BAXTER, Professor, MA (1965), Northwestern University [2012]

SUSAN C. CHRIETZBERG, Professor, MEd, (1968), Middle Tennessee State University [2010]

STEPHEN HANCOCK, Associate Professor, MFA (1984), The Pennsylvania State University [2013]

ROBERT A. HETHERINGTON, Professor, MA (1976), Northwestern University [2009]

JANICE BENNING LACEK, Assistant Professor, MFA (1993), University of California at San Diego [2013]

HOLLY C. LAU, Associate Professor, MFA (1991), The Ohio State University [2008]

ANITA JO LENHART, Associate Professor, MFA (1985), Florida State University [2010]

MOIRA J. LOGAN, Associate Professor, MFA, (1972), Sarah Lawrence College [2010]

JOHN J. McFADDEN, JR., Professor, MFA (1975), The Pennsylvania State University [2012]

MICHAEL S. O’NELE, Associate Professor, MFA, (1998), The University of Missouri-Kansas City [2010]

REGINALD C. BROWN, Assistant Professor, MFA (2005), Virginia Commonwealth University [2011]

DAVID A. NOFSINGER, Assistant Professor, MFA (2000), The University of Arizona [2010]

DOUGLAS J. KOERTGE, Professor Emeritus, PhD (1973), The University of Illinois [2010]

NOTE: Termination date of graduate faculty membership is indicated in brackets.
Last revised on: April 4, 2008.