The Professional and Graduate Student Coordinating Committee (ProGradS) is a standing committee of the University that considers issues affecting graduate and professional students in general (i.e., issues that are not specific to a given school, degree, or discipline).

Roles:

  • Serves as a forum for discussion of graduate and professional student needs, including student health insurance and health care, off-campus university housing, transportation, international student issues, childcare
  • Encourages interdisciplinary opportunities and interaction, such as joint degrees, access to courses outside home department and school, identification of barriers between schools
  • Registers new university-wide graduate student groups and provides oversight and support
  • Facilitates the annual selection of the two graduate student representatives to the WashU Board of Trustees in the spring semester

Committee Membership:

  • Two representatives from each of the schools with graduate programs
    • One faculty/administrator to represent the school
    • One graduate/professional student named by the Graduate Professional Student Council in cooperation with the graduate student association of each school.

Ex Officio Members Include:

  • Two graduate student representatives to the WashU Board of Trustees
  • Graduate Professional Student Council