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Hi April – at U of Alabama, we do hood the doctoral students at the main Commencement ceremony. The doctoral students process across the stage first, followed by masters and then bachelors students. We used to organize them by college but since covid we have not. When the doc students walk in, their mentor/hooder walks behind them and sits beside them. Once the names start being called, the doc students and their mentors file across the stage, stopping in the middle where the hooder climbs up on the box and hoods the student. During that moment the reader reads not only the student’s name but the dissertation director’s name also (who may or may not be the hooder). After all the doc students and their hooders have crossed the stage, the box is removed and the masters students begin filing across the stage. So the doc students do slow the ceremony down…but students and audience seem to enjoy the hooding! Let me know if further information would be helpful.
At U of Alabama, our research office handles any allegations of research misconduct, which often does relate to dissertation data or content. For infractions such as cheating or non-dissertation plagiarism, we have the same misconduct codes at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
November 17, 2023 at 5:04 pm in reply to: Tuition waiver models for nonresident graduate assistants #10836The same is true at U of Alabama as at Oakland; our state tuition laws allow us to reclassify GA’s as in-state for tuition purposes. We didn’t do it until about 5 years ago; but it has really helped with our scholarship budgeting, to have made that change. These issues are controlled by state laws, at state institutions – at my former institution we had no such option.
We love using this resource – thanks for all the great work on it!
November 17, 2023 at 5:00 pm in reply to: Minimum Credit Hours for PhD + Coursework vs. Dissertation #10834Hi Mary – at U of Alabama we have minimum requirements that apply to all degrees, and allow some departments to set higher levels of requirements. Our minimum total credits beyond the master’s, for PhD students, is now 36 hours of coursework and 18 hours of dissertation credits. PhD students can transfer in up to 50% of that coursework from a prior master’s, and if they don’t have a prior master’s and are granted one en-route, they can count up to 30 of their master’s hours (in an integrated masters/PhD program of study). We recently lowered our credit-hour requirements from 48 to 36 at the coursework stage and from 24 to 18 at the doctoral research stage. Having recently done this homework, I would be glad to share our data collection with you, from SEC and Big 10 webpages. I will also tell you that trying to compare candidacy hours, from one school to another, may not be productive because how we each bill for dissertation hours is really a billing and continuous-enrollment question, not an academic-credit-hours question. So it differs drastically, from 2 to 12 credits per semester at different schools. Comparing the coursework requirements is much more of an apples-to-apples question and is more useful, based on our experience! Good luck with your review.
Susan Carvalho, U of AlabamaNo, we opted not to develop such a policy. Our faculty committee felt that at the graduate level this would not be advisable.
Hi–we discussed this two years ago at U of Alabama’s Graduate Council, and came up with our Academic Fresh Start Policy. It allows students to “reset” their GPA to start over in either the same program or another program (after a 3 year hiatus). But the prior credits don’t count, so it is a true “starting over.” The link is https://catalog.ua.edu/graduate/about/academic-policies/admission-criteria/ – click on “Readmission” and then find “Readmission Fresh Start.” Glad to answer any questions about that.
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