PACM has a Graduate Student Committee that acts as a liaison between graduate students and faculty members.

If you have a comment or concern about PACM, you can bring it to the attention of the Committee by emailing a member.

Current Committee Members, listed by the year they started PACM:

    2007 Samuel Feng
    2006 Emanuel Lazar
    2005 Rachel Ward (Chair)
    2004 Filip Matejka
    2003 Katy Bold



A description of the Graduate Student Committee, taken from Rights, Rules, Responsibilities 2004:

Graduate Student Departmental Committees

The following are to be established policies in the making of decisions with regard to the graduate courses of study, and departmental chairs shall be responsible for so informing the graduate students of their departments at the beginning of each academic year. However, any of these policies may be modified by agreement of the faculty and graduate students of a department, these modifications to remain in effect until changed by similar procedure.

1. Each department shall establish a departmental committee of graduate students, to act as a liaison between the faculty and the graduate student body of the department. Each committee should normally meet with the committee of the departmental faculty concerned with graduate studies, if one exists. The committee of graduate students shall have the right to initiate discussion of any proposals relating to the departmental graduate program, shall encourage students to participate in departmental affairs of special interest and relevance to them, and shall have the following additional rights:
   • The right to attach comments to all proposals forwarded to the Committee on the Graduate School by departmental faculty.
   • The right, in certain circumstances, to secure a departmental faculty's reconsideration of action taken on proposals regarding the graduate curriculum. Departments should seriously consider a second vote on any measures regarding the department's graduate program when it is requested by the student committee. In any particular academic year departmental faculties should commit themselves to a second vote on such measures if a second vote is requested within one month by the student departmental committee in a petition endorsed by two thirds of the department's graduate students. If the action being reconsidered is on a proposal that the departmental faculty has rejected, a majority vote of the departmental faculty should reverse the previous decision. If the action being reconsidered is on a proposal that has been adopted by the departmental faculty, a two-thirds vote of the departmental faculty should be required to affirm the previous decision. Departmental faculties should not be bound to reconsider the same action more than once in the same academic year.
2. Student departmental committees shall be provided with a reasonable amount of secretarial assistance in preparing proposals, communicating with departmental students, and conducting elections.
3. Each departmental chair shall be responsible for:
   • Referring all proposals for major changes in the department's graduate program to the departmental graduate student committee before action on such proposals by the faculty of the department.
   • Inviting student committee members to discuss proposals for major changes in the graduate course of study with the faculty of the department at or before any meetings in which the departmental faculty proposes to take action on such proposals.
   • Scheduling at least two meetings each academic year with the graduate student committee of the department, one early in the fall term to work out plans for later consultation, and one in late spring to review the department's graduate offerings so that chairs may take student views into account in preparing requests for new staff.