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 Washington University Board of Trustees in the spring semester
Committee Membership:
- Two representatives from each of the graduate schools
- One faculty/administrator to represent the school
- One graduate/professional student named by the Graduate Professional Council in cooperation with the graduate student association of each school.
Ex Officio Members Include:
- Two graduate student representatives to the Wash U Board of Trustees
- Graduate Professional Council