RUSH UNIVERSITY

Rush University is dedicated to educating students who will become tomorrow's leaders in advancing health care.

THE GRADUATE COLLEGE

The excitement of discovery and its communication to other scholars comprise the essence of graduate education at Rush.

Paul M. Carvey, Ph.D.
Dean, The Graduate College

Mission and Organization

Mission . The primary mission of The Graduate College of Rush University is to promote and assure excellence in educational programs in selected disciplines of the medical sciences. The Graduate College promotes cooperative efforts in achieving high quality educational and research programs to prepare students for successful careers and life-long professional development.

Organization . 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
• Biochemistry
• Immunology/Microbiology
• Medical Physics
• Pharmacology
• Neuroscience
• 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 two students elected by the students annually. Only the elected members and students are allowed to vote. The Dean serves as the chairman 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 hold ultimate responsibility for programs of The Graduate College, the divisions of graduate study retain significant authority in structuring and administering their programs. 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.