2024-2025 Graduate Council Members
Student Affairs Committee
Chair: Bernadette Olson - Food, Nutrition, Dietetics, and Health
Co-chair: To be announced
- Cydney Alexis - English
- Erika Geisbrecht - Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Aditya Jha* - GSC President-elect
- Behrooz Mirafzal - Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Phillip Payne - Graduate School Associate Dean
- Teng Yang* - Applied and Interdisciplinary Studies
Committee on Planning
Chair: Jonathan Ulmer - Communications and Agricultural Education
Co-chair: Susan Yelich Biniecki - Educational Leadership
- Siny Joseph - Integrated Studies
- Jun Li* - Chemistry
- Phillip Payne - Graduate School Associate Dean
- Claudia Petrescu - Graduate School Dean
- Douglas Walker* - Marketing
Assessment and Review Committee
Chair: Adam Ahlers - Horticulture and Natural Resources
Co-chair: Umut Yucel* - Food Science Institute
- Paige Adams - Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology
- Christy Craft* - Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs
- Ursula Emery-McClure* - Architectural Engineering and Construction Science
- Judy Gordon - Architecture
- Shabina Kavimandan - Curriculum and Instruction
- Phillip Payne - Graduate School Associate Dean
- Charles “Chip” Pickens* - Psychological Sciences
- Aleksey Sheshukov - Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Academic Affairs Committee
Chair: Matthew Basel - Anatomy and Physiology
Co-chair: Hulya Dogan* - Grain Science and Industry
- Torben Amtoft* - Computer Science
- Marne Arthaud-Day - Management
- Valerie Padilla Carroll - Social Transformation Studies
- Mervi Pakaste - Art
- Phillip Payne - Graduate School Associate Dean
- Susmita Rishi* - Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning
- Joel Spencer - Geology
- Mingjun Wei* - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
- Zane Whitney - GSC President
- Heather Woods - Media and Communication
Academic Affairs and Innovation Representative
- Janice Nikkel
K-State Libraries Representative
- Laura Bonella
2025 Election Committee
- Paige Adams
- Matthew Basel
- Siny Joseph
- Bernadette Olson
- Valerie Padilla Carroll
- Joel Spencer
- Heather Woods
* Indicates new Council member for 2024-2025 academic year
Council Representatives by Academic Area
The Graduate Faculty is organized into Academic Areas for the purposes of electing representatives to the Graduate Council. These Academic Areas, which form constituencies for representation to Graduate Council, ensure that educational and scholarly diversity between disciplines is represented in all Graduate Council deliberations. The Graduate Faculty members also have membership in colleges.
