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Graduate Handbook (2005-2006)
Graduate Coordinating Committee

At the beginning of the Fall Semester each year, the Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will appoint a departmental Graduate Coordinating Committee. The committee will consist of at least four graduate faculty members of the Department in addition to the Department's Graduate Coordinator, who serves as its chairperson. Committee responsibilities will include the following:
  1. Approving all major professors and graduate committees;
  2. Approving all programs of study;
  3. Overseeing and coordinating all core examinations and comprehensive examinations; pass or fail on the examinations will be determined by a majority vote of the committee members;
  4. Approving the scheduling of all oral examinations, and having a member, who is not a member of the student's graduate committee (see Masters Committee or Doctoral Committee), present at each oral examination.

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