Graduate advising

The Graduate School administers numerous programs of study leading to graduate degrees.

Each of these areas has a graduate coordinator who reviews the applications and oversees their progress through the departmental evaluation and acceptance process. Upon acceptance to the Graduate School, the student is assigned or selects, by mutual consent, an advisor who will assist the student in planning a program of study. In the areas where a thesis is a part of the degree requirement, a thesis committee is also assigned to, or selected with the consent of the advisor and the committee members, the student to advise the student and monitor the progress of the thesis.

During registration, the Graduate School provides the graduate coordinators with the registration cards for the students eligible to register. The graduate coordinator is responsible for seeing that students are advised regarding courses in which they should enroll.

In preparation for preregistration the Graduate School provides the registrar with the preregistration letters and labels for currently enrolled students. The registrar distributes the information to the appropriate department approximately four weeks before preregistration is to begin. Closer to the actual preregistration time, the registrar distributes the "Authorization to Sealine," which is given to the student by the graduate coordinator/advisor during the scheduled advising time.