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Advisory Committee
A graduate student is required to have an advisory committee and is responsible for its formation and maintenance. There will be a hold placed on any student's registration if an official request for appointment of an advisory committee has not been filed in the Graduate School Office by the time 15 semester hours have been earned. If changes in membership of the student's advisory committee are desired or required, the student is responsible for submitting a request for such changes. The request, which must include an explanation of the proposed changes, consists of a memorandum from the student to the Associate Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies, via the departmental chairperson and the dean of the college. The signatures of faculty leaving or being added to the committee are required to be on the memorandum, as well as the signature of the chairperson of the committee, even if this is not changing. Unless an exception has been granted by the departmental chairperson, the dean of the college, and the Associate Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies, a graduate student who has earned at least 15 semester hours of course credit who does not have an appropriate advisory committee will not be permitted to register. After 15 semester hours have been earned, failure to be able to form or to maintain an appropriate committee is cause for transfer of the student to nondegree status. After the transfer occurs, all regulations pertaining to nondegree graduate students will apply, the remainder of the student's advisory committee (if such exists) is considered to be completely dissolved, and the special responsibilities of the faculty member who chaired the committee are terminated. Nondegree students are not eligible to register for thesis or dissertation credit.
For a student transferred to nondegree status (as above) who subsequently submits an application for readmission to the degree program in which previously enrolled, such application must include a request for appointment of a committee signed by all proposed committee members, the departmental chairperson and the dean of the college. Such application for readmission will not be evaluated until an appropriate request for appointment of a committee has been submitted. For a student transferred to nondegree status who subsequently applies to a degree program different than that in which previously enrolled, the usual timing for forming a committee applies.
Further regulations concerning membership, appointment, and responsibilities of an advisory committee are given in other sections of the catalog, including the section on "Organization of the Graduate School."
Page last updated: 6/22/06
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