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)
The Graduate Coordinator Handbook is in Adobe PDF format.
The entire handbook, in PDF format (74 pages, 490K)
- Message from the Dean of Graduate Studies
- Section A: The Graduate Coordinator
-
Role — Resources — Support Personnel — Publications/Files —
Electronic Publications (e-Pubs) — Electronic Support
- Section B: Campus Resources
- Division of Graduate Studies — Ancillary Support Offices
- Section C: Terminology
- Admissions — Progress to Degree
- Section D: Recruitment and Retention
- Recruitment — Retention
- Section E: Financial Assistance
- Main Types of Assistance — Assistantships and Associateships
— Tuition Waivers (Domestic Students) —
Tuition Waivers (International Students)
- Section F: 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
- Section G: 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
- Section H: Advancement to Candidacy
- Other Departmental Requirements — Program Adjustment Request
- Section I: Appeals and Petitions
- Academic Overload — Course Validation —
Graduate Student Petitions (General)
- Section J: 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
- Section K: The Culminating Experience
- The Comprehensive Examination — The Project
— The Thesis
- Section L: Graduation
- Hooding Ceremony — Distinction — Proof
of Degree Granted — Certification Letters —
And Beyond
- Section M: Curriculum Change
- Writing Requirement
- Section N: New Degree Programs
- Section O: Teaching Associates/Graduate Assistants
- Section P: Doctoral Degrees
- INDEX