If a student fails to pass master's exams, comprehensive exams, or qualifying examinations, cannot form a master’s thesis or doctoral committee, or fails to meet other departmental milestones or University standards, the Department Chair or Graduate Advisor may recommend monitoring status, academic probation, or academic disqualification to the Graduate Dean.
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Select the Report Reasons (required)
You can choose more than one as necessary
Failure to Form Committee - If the student cannot form a committee, or their advisor decided to no longer work with the student, etc
Failure of Comprehensive/Qualifying Exam - If the student didn’t pass a milestone exam, such as a master’s comprehensive exam, the written or oral qualifying exam, etc.
Failure to Meet Department Standard - Any other departmental standard
Enter the Situation Description (required)
Explain why the department is making the request. How is the student not meeting departmental standards of scholarship? Be specific.
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Upload the Academic Progress Plan (required)
Check to make sure you uploaded the correct document, if not, you can click the Browse button again to upload the correct document.
Upload supplemental documentation (optional)
These are documents that you think will help the Graduate Division evaluate the case, such as emails from the student’s advisor describing the situation, or excerpts from your Graduate Handbook that help explain how the student isn’t meeting departmental standards.
Select the Suggested Standing (required)
Monitoring or probationCheck to make sure you uploaded the correct document, if not, you can click the Browse button again to upload the correct document.
Submit the step, which will move the workflow to Step 2
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The data and the documents in Step 1 are not saved until you hit submit. If you refresh the page or leave the page before hitting submit, you will need to fill out all of the fields and upload the documents again. |
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Review the information entered on Step 1
The fields can be altered and documents reuploaded as needed
Hit Click the approve button to move the workflow to the Graduate Division
Clicking deny will end the workflow without sending the request to the Graduate Division. You would only click deny if you changed your mind and didn’t want to go through with the recommendation.
Graduate Division Review and Finalization
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