At the beginning of each semester/session, Graduate Education will do the following:

1. Request a list of newly hired tenured/tenure-track faculty members from Human Resources.
2. Send a memo notifying the new qualified tenured/tenure-track faculty members, who have been hired at a position of assistant professor or higher, of their automatic full membership to the Graduate Faculty.
3. Update the Graduate Faculty Membership list that can be found at https://gradfac.mst.edu/graduate-faculty/members/.

Note: If a former ex officio member transfers from a position of administration to a title of assistant professor or higher, they will also receive notification of automatic full membership to the Graduate Faculty.

1. During the spring semester, members whose Graduate Faculty appointments will expire at the end of the current year will receive an invitation from Graduate Education to submit their application for reappointment.                               
2. Applicants must submit their reappointment application via email to mstgradfacpres@mst.edu.
   • Note: Reappointment applications are due no later than the first Monday in March during the spring semester or the first Monday in October for the fall semester.                                                            
3. After the application deadline has passed for each semester, the Graduate Faculty Membership Committee will meet to review the reappointment applications and will complete its review prior to each semester’s Graduate Faculty meeting. 
4. The list of applicants recommended by the Graduate Faculty Membership Committee will be presented at the Graduate Faculty meeting of each semester, where a vote will take place for final approval.
5. Graduate Education will send notification letters to each approved applicant during the first week of June for those approved at the spring meeting, and during the first week of January for those approved at the fall meeting. 
6. Graduate Education will update the Graduate Faculty Membership list which can be found at https://gradfac.mst.edu/graduate-faculty/members/. 

1. Applicants must submit their application via email to mstgradfacpres@mst.edu.
   
   • Note: Applications are due no later than the first Monday in March during the spring semester or the first Monday in October for the fall semester.
2. After the application deadline has passed for each semester, the Graduate Faculty Membership Committee will meet to review the applications and will complete its review prior to each semester’s Graduate Faculty meeting. 
3. The list of applicants recommended by the Graduate Faculty Membership Committee will be presented at the Graduate Faculty meeting of each semester, where a vote will take place for final approval.                
4. Graduate Education will send notification letters to each approved applicant during the first week of June for those approved at the spring meeting, and during the first week of January for those approved at the fall meeting. 
5. Graduate Education will update the Graduate Faculty Membership list which can be found at https://gradfac.mst.edu/graduate-faculty/members/.