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Academic Oversight by the Graduate College 

In addition to providing academic oversight for all graduate programs on campus, the Graduate College oversees 10 interdisciplinary academic programs:

• School of Library and Information Science (SLIS)
• Urban and Regional Planning (URP)
• Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI)
• Genetics
• Neuroscience
• Molecular and Cellular Biology
• Immunology
• Applied Mathematical and Computational Science
• Second Language Acquisition
• Health Informatics

The Graduate College also oversees programs that support diversity initiatives:

• Office of Ethnic Inclusion (AGEP, IBA, SROP)