Graduate Committee Membership
Membership for 2024-2025
Member (expiration) | Department | Constituency |
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Leslie Schuster (2025) Executive Committee | History | Faculty Arts and Sciences |
Anita Duneer (2024) | English | Faculty Arts and Sciences |
Leonardo Pinheiro (2024) | Math | Faculty Arts and Sciences |
Charlie Boisvert (2024 | Education | Feinstein School of Education and Human Development |
Natasha Feinberg (2024) | Elementary Education | Feinstein School of Education and Human Development |
Julie Horwitz (2024) Executive Committee | Educational Studies | Feinstein School of Education and Human Development |
Sean Cote (2025) Chair | Accounting | School of Business |
Joan Walsh (2024) | Graduate Nursing | School of Nursing |
Aswood Bousseau (2025) | Social Work | School of Social Work |
Lucia Perluck | Graduate Student | non-voting |
None | Dean of Graduate Studies | ex officio; non-voting |
Graduate Committee Make-Up
The Graduate Committee is comprised of these members, with elected members serving for staggered 2-year terms:
- 3 graduate program directors or graduate faculty members elected from among the graduate programs in the School of Education. (3)
- 3 graduate program directors or graduate faculty members elected from among the graduate programs in the School of Arts and Sciences. (3)
- 1 graduate program director or faculty member elected from the School of Business. (1)
- 1 graduate program director or graduate faculty member elected from the School of Nursing. (1)
- 1 graduate program director or graduate faculty member elected from the School of Social Work. (1)
- 1 graduate student accepted in a graduate program, appointed annually as directed by the Vice President for Academic Affairs. (1)
- Dean of Graduate Studies. (1; non-voting)
Graduate Executive Committee
The Executive Committee shall consist of the Chair of the Graduate Committee and two other elected members.

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Graduate Committee
The mission of the Graduate Committee is to oversee graduate curricula and programs, and to advance the interest of graduate programs and students at Rhode Island College.