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Graduate School Review
The review of the Graduate School last year led to the decision to separate the positions of the Dean of the Graduate School and the Vice President for Research. Both positions are needed but they do not combine well at an operational level. Further the review recommended that the Graduate School be retained and strengthened. Ann Wylie accepted a two year appointment as Dean of the Graduate School to allow time for these issues to be considered. Now that the review has been completed, the Provost will lead a campus based search for a dean of the Graduate School to take over beginning in the next academic year. Similarly we will begin a search for the position of Vice President for Research to replace Jacques Gansler who agreed to take that position for two years.
Attention to graduate programs and students is a first priority among the review recommendations that spanned financial support guarantees, teaching assistant responsibilities, housing, services, normative time to the doctoral degree, registration, leave, fellowship allocations and fellowship use. Since the review, the Graduate School has considered incentives and disincentives for both students and campus units to achieve an overall university doctoral program that is known nationally for its selectivity, the success of its graduates, and its high completion rates. A graduate program review committee will soon be appointed by the Provost to consider these recommendations and to make its own, as necessary, to achieve the overall university graduate program goal.
A great research university has a great graduate program. That is the standard we aspire to reach through these initiatives.
Delivering the Promises
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