Graduate Program Directors/Program Assistants Brown

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Thursday, February 27, 2013

Agenda• Welcome• Admissions• Summer Financial Aid• New Graduate School Policies:

– Grievance Procedure – Revisions | Additional recommendations sent to General Counsel– Co-Authorship | Final revisions approved, including reference to student publications– Program of Study |Revisions approved

• Research Symposia• Conference Travel Funding• New Forms Online!

– Withdraw Forms– Certificate of Approval

• ETD Deadlines & Registration• Discussion about Professional Development Workshops• Outstanding Mentor Award• In the News• New Business

Admissions

Summer Financial Aid

• Change in the way the Feds are expecting cost of living to be assigned– http://usfweb2.usf.edu/finaid/summer/

summer_budgets/coa_wizard.aspx

Summer Fin Aid (cont.)

Summer Fin Aid (cont.)

Summer Fin Aid (cont.)

New Policies1. Intellectual and Scholarship Integrity Shared Authorship and Research Education Policy•USF contains a broad range of academic programs in diverse disciplines, and the USF faculty recognize that the conventions on shared authorship and credit for scholarship vary among disciplines. In general, sharing in authorship implies both substantive intellectual contributions to the work and also approval of the work as it appears in public. Right to authorship credit is not automatically conveyed by being the instructor of a course, being a student’s major professor, or being a research assistant working with faculty and professional researchers; neither is credit automatically prohibited because of such status. •Each college/program that includes research education shall include an explicit discussion of shared authorship issues and disciplinary conventions as part of the formal curriculum addressing research methods and ethics, including the conventions of the discipline’s publications. In addition, each college or program shall have a formal statement about shared authorship made available to students (such as on a college or program website) or given to students at the same time as they are given notice about other program and college expectations.

•Each college/program shall also have a written procedure for resolving questions or conflicts about shared authorship where students are involved. The college and program may use the same procedure for resolving questions for non‐student employees, but the procedure for resolving questions or conflicts involving students must address the educational needs of students (e.g., explicitly asking about the nature of the research methods and ethics education as experienced by a student involved in the case at hand).

•This written procedure must be made available to students (such as on a college or program website) or given to students at the same time as they are given notice about other program and university expectations.

New Policies• ETD-related:

Students must be first author for articles and papers used for the dissertation, or another designation or affirmation that the student had primary intellectual responsibility for the publication.

• Student’s Program of Study:In addition to the graduate degree program requirements as specified in the Graduate Catalog, each student should have a written, flexible program of study that includes the student's choice of Catalog year, choice of concentration, cognate, or other options available in the degree program, and a tentative identification of other appropriate choices available to the student in the program, which may (but does not need to) include specific courses. A program of study is not a guarantee that specific courses will be available in a specific semester or that statutory and regulatory requirements will not change during the student's enrollment in the program. As required or appropriate, the program of study should be revisited and modified by the student and the student's advisor/major professor(s).

Research Symposia

• 5th Annual Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Symposium– Submission deadline extended to March 8th

– To be held on March 22nd, from 1 – 4 in the MSC• Inaugural Statewide Graduate Student

Symposium– Participants will be the winners from universities

throughout the SUS system– April 19th, 1 – 4

Conference Travel Funding

• Town-hall meeting with SG– Feb. 21

• Research Symposium prizes

New Forms Online!

–Withdraw Forms–Certificate of Approval

ETD Registration & Deadlines

Professional Development Workshops

• We offer a range of these each semester• The most popular:– Dissertation Forum – in partnership with the

Writing Center/Library– Interviewing Skills

• What else is needed?• What is the proper model?

Outstanding Mentor Award

• Deadline will be in late April/early May• Policy Committee of Graduate Council will be

evaluating them• Awards will be announced at our Scholars of

Excellence banquet in mid-October

In the News

– http://www.cgsnet.org/effects-sequestration-and-graduate-education

– http://chronicle.com/article/ETS-Shares-Data-on-First-Crop/137435/?cid=gs&utm_source=gs&utm_medium=en

New Business

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