Duties include the following:

• Serve as liaison between graduate program and the Graduate School.
• Initially review applications and convene the admission committee within the college/school or department.
• Sign applications to accept or deny admission; applications should not be held longer than 10 days.
• Review application status reports provided to them by the Graduate School.  Follow up with possible phone calls to applicants.
• Oversee advising of graduate students.
• Work with the Graduate School and Registrar's Office in preparing degree audit and making programmatic changes when necessary.
• Prepare and approve forms for transfer credit when appropriate.
• Review and approve forms for DIS (591) credit.
• Review and approve forms for substitutions to the degree program when appropriate.
• Review and approve preparation of curriculum changes.
• Oversee and approve preparation of catalogue material.
• Oversee graduate faculty application process within the college/school or department and see that applications are signed by the academic dean and forwarded to the Graduate School for action.
• Oversee and approve preparation of HR 1.35 (forms for paying graduate students flat rates) and HR 1.60 for paying graduate students hourly rates..
• Oversee thesis defense and comprehensive exam procedures.
• Review and approve graduation applications .
• Attend graduate coordinator's meetings held by the Graduate School.
• Facilitate scholarship requests that come from the Graduate School.  This includes the New Scholar Award, Jane Logan Lackey Scholarship, Schwartz Graduate Fellowship, Summer Research Award, graduate student travel awards and Graduate Teaching Excellence Award.
• Provide the following reports to the dean of the Graduate School when requested: annual report on the Monitoring and Training of Graduate Teaching Assistants required by General Administration; annual report of graduate students' activities; request and justify teaching assistantships and tuition remission needs.  Prepare other reports as needed.

It is advised by the Graduate School that all graduate coordinators use BANNER for accessing information regarding applicants and advisees.  DARS training is also strongly recommended for advising purposes.