IU graduate faculty members receive representation from elected faculty councils at all organizational levels, including graduate faculty, IU Bloomington faculty, and system-wide faculty. These bodies represent faculty interests to ensure academic excellence for the programs they oversee.
Learn more about IU’s faculty councils
Graduate Faculty Council
The Graduate Faculty Council (GFC) represents all IU graduate faculty, serving as an advisory and legislative board on matters of graduate education.
This body provides instruction and guidance on matters of the graduate curriculum, admission standards, and degree conferral, and provides general oversight of the academic quality and integrity of graduate programs. The Graduate Faculty Council also advises the dean with respect to the standards of graduate work at IU and in awarding IU Graduate School fellowships and grants-in-aid.
Council members are elected once a year on a staggered basis.
To learn more about the nomination and election process, contact gfc@indiana.edu.
Bloomington Faculty Council
The Bloomington Faculty Council (BFC) represents all IU Bloomington faculty, exercising faculty authority to carry out the campus’s academic mission.
University Faculty Council
The University Faculty Council (UFC) represents faculty across all IU campuses, providing governance on system-wide issues.