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To facilitate its educational mission, the College is organized into divisions; each division represents a separate discipline and each is related to its parent academic department. Currently, the College has the following divisions:
- Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Behavioral Sciences (Inactive)
- Biochemistry
- Immunology/Microbiology
- Medical Physics (Inactive)
- Pharmacology
- Neuroscience
- Nursing
- Molecular Biophysics and Physiology
The primary goal of each division is to provide excellent graduate education in the sciences basic to medicine. The divisions of the College are flexible and responsive to the changing needs and experiences in their disciplines. To that end, divisions are headed by directors who serve for definite terms of appointment and whose re-appointments are subject to periodic review. Each division reports through its director to the Dean of The Graduate College and is a member of The Graduate College Council. The Graduate College Council is the senior representative body of the college. Its membership includes all division directors, an elected faculty member from each division, and three students from different divisions elected by the students annually. Only the elected members and students are allowed to vote. The Dean serves as the chair of the council. The council is responsible for setting policies for the admission of students; the formulation and adoption of general operating policies, standards and procedures of the college; the appointment of Graduate College faculty and the approval of those recommended for degrees. Although the Dean and the Council maintain significant oversight of programs in The Graduate College, the divisions also establish policies and procedures for their students consistent with their goals. The Graduate College Council periodically reviews divisional policies and procedures. The faculty of The Graduate College is drawn from the faculty of the other colleges of Rush University. No faculty member has a primary appointment in The Graduate College. No ranks are associated with appointment to the faculty, and all faculty in The Graduate College are designated members.
Programs
In addition to divisions, The Graduate College oversees two additional programs. These programs are:
- Clinical Research
- Biotechnology
Neither of these programs resides in a division, both are administered out of the Dean's office, and both are overseen by the Graduate College Council. Faculty from several divisions participates in the education of students in these programs. |
