For Faculty:
PROCEDURES & GUIDELINES FOR THE GRADUATE COORDINATOR

(For students, please click here for the e-Pub
CHART YOUR COURSE - A Student Guide to Completing the Master's Degree)

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Message from the Dean of Graduate Studies

The Graduate Coordinator

Role — Resources — Support Personnel — Publications/Files — Electronic Publications (e-Pubs) — Electronic Support

Campus Resources

Division of Graduate Studies — Ancillary Support Offices

Terminology

Admissions — Progress to Degree

Recruitment and Retention

Recruitment — Retention

Financial Assistance

Main Types of Assistance — Assistantships and Associateships — Tuition Waivers (Domestic Students) — Tuition Waivers (International Students)

Admissions

The Admission Cycle — Cancellation of Admission

ADMISSIONS – Domestic

University Admission – Graduate/Postbacalaureate — Program Admission

ADMISSIONS—–International

ADMISSIONS —– General Information

Standardized Testing — Special Admission — Special Admission Follow-up — Break in Enrollment–Readmission of Returning Students — Change of Degree Objective — Certificate of Advanced Study Programs — Second Master's Degree — M.A. or M.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies

Enrollment/Registration

Catalog Year — Continuous Enrollment — Campus Definition of Full-Time Student Status — Full-time vs. Part-time Status — Requirement for Full-Time Enrollment International Students — Planned Educational Leave Requests — Time to Degree — Request for Record Adjustment — Tuition and Registration Fees

Advancement to Candidacy

Other Departmental Requirements — Program Adjustment Request

Appeals and Petitions

Academic Overload — Course Validation — Graduate Student Petitions (General)

Grading/Academic Credits

Administrative Academic Probation (AAP) — Academic Disqualification — Program Disqualification — Credit/No Credit Grading (CR/NC) — Continuing Education Enrollment (Extension) — Incompletes — Repetition of Courses/Grade Substitution — Required GPA — Retroactive Withdrawals — Summer Enrollment — Undergraduate Enrollment in 200-Level Courses

The Culminating Experience

The Comprehensive Examination — The Project — The Thesis

Graduation

Hooding Ceremony — Distinction — Proof of Degree Granted — Certification Letters — And Beyond

Curriculum Change

Writing Requirement

New Degree Programs

Teaching Associates/Graduate Assistants

Doctoral Degrees