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April 2003
Amended September 2004
Amended November 2005
This handbook is a source of reference materials for Graduate Council and its subcommittees. In the past we have provided a hard copy to everyone. Since most of the materials are available on the Web, this year's handbook is presented in this electronic format.
The Guidelines are organized in two ways — first by topic in the Table of Contents and then alphabetically in the Index.
By looking at this document you will see the variety of materials that are readily available to you. If you would like additional links to be included, please inform the Graduate Council Assistant in the Office of Graduate Studies. Also, please contact the assistant if you notice any corrections that need to be made or if you need copies of any items that are "under revision"; or are "to be posted".
Sincerely,
Andrew Waterhouse, Chair
Graduate Council
2. UC Davis Graduate Program Directory
- The information is available on the Web: Programs of Study
- Less than half of UC Davis’s 80 graduate programs are “departmentally-based graduate programs” and more than half are “graduate groups.”
5. Graduate Program Bylaws
Graduate Groups have always had bylaws. After Phase III, departmentally-based graduate programs also were required to have bylaws.
6. Designated Emphasis Programs
The UC systemwide Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs approved the UCD DE policy and proposal guidelines, February 1989.
7. New Graduate Programs
- Compendium, Universitywide Review Processes (July 1999) Web site. See Table of Contents
MSWord documents to be posted on the Web. Hard copies are available.
- CCGA Format for the Graduate Degree Program Proposal, Appendix B, CCGA Handbook
(March 2005) pages 13-15; Note: The Table of Contents (TOC) for this Acrobat document is "clickable." Click on any entry in the TOC and you will be taken to that item. - Council’s Revised Procedures for the Review of New Proposals by the Davis Divisional Academic Senate Library Committee and Committee on Academic Planning and Budget Review (CAPBR) (October 1997).
- Departmentally-based Graduate Programs, procedures to become Graduate Groups
- Graduate Studies Checklist for Proposals for New Graduate Programs
- New Graduate Program—Procedures (for developing and reviewing proposals) (September 1994)
- New Graduate Program—Approval Sequence (April 1998)
- CCGA Format for the Graduate Degree Program Proposal, Appendix B, CCGA Handbook—May 2004 Revision Note that the Table of Contents (TOC) for this Acrobat document is "clickable." Click on any entry in the TOC and you will be taken to that item.
8. Changes to Existing Graduate Programs
UC Davis Graduate Council Policies
- Degree Requirements Guidelines (December 2005).
- Graduate Council Guidelines for Evaluation of Requests for Diploma/Record Notation (November 1998)
- Policy Regulating Programmatic Changes Submitted for Review by Graduate Council, revised (May 2003)
Policies affecting students
- Admission of Graduate Students Transferring from Other Institutions with Their Major Professors (December 2004)
- Disqualification and Appeal (June 2005)
- Doctoral Qualifying Examinations (June 2005)
- Grandfathering Policy for Degree Requirements (April 2000)
- Second Ph.D.s, Graduate Council Policy on Applications for Admission to a Second Ph.D. Degree Program (April 2002)
- Time-to-Degree Policy (June 2000)
- Transfer Credit Statute of Limitations Policy (June 2000)
UC Systemwide reviewed changes
- Name Changes for Campus Units, UCD P&PM, Section 200-50 (February 2005)
- Name Changes of Graduate Degree Programs, II.B.2. of the Compendium
- Transfer, Consolidation, Disestablishment, and Discontinuance of Academic Units and Programs, UCD P&PM, Section 200-25 (September 1991)
- Transfer, Consolidation, or Discontinuance of Graduate Degree Programs, II.B.3. of the Compendium
9. Joint Doctoral Programs
- Approved Guidelines to Issues Necessary to Consider When Collaborative Graduate Programs are Suggested (August 2000). To be posted.
- Joint Doctoral Program Review by Program Review Committee: Criteria for Reviewing Proposed Joint UC/CSU Doctoral Programs, CCGA Handbook, May 2004 Revision, Appendix G, pages 23-24; Note:The Table of Contents (TOC) for this Acrobat document is "clickable". Click on any entry in the TOC and you will be taken to that item.
- UCD Guidelines for the Establishment of Joint Doctoral Programs Between CSU Campuses and UCD (April 1990). To be posted.
10. Graduate Studies Handbook, UC Davis
- Under revision. To be posted.
11. Program Review
Web site to be available Fall 2005.
- Graduate Council Guidelines for Evaluating and Prioritizing Graduate Programs (June 1995, Revised November 2001) and Master’s Only Programs (June 1994)
- Guidelines for Evaluating Requests for Delays of Program Reviews (June 1999)
- Graduate Program Review Guidelines
- Policy and Process for the Review of Designated Emphases, (February 2002) revised
Index
Admission of Graduate Students Transferring from Other Institutions with Their Major Professors
Appointment and Review of Graduate Group Chairs
Bylaws, Graduate Program
Bylaws Guidelines, Graduate Program
Bylaws Quorum Policy Statement
CCGA Format for the Graduate Degree Program Proposal
Note: The Table of Contents (TOC) for this Acrobat document is "clickable". Click on any entry in the TOC and you will be taken to that item.
Changes to Existing Graduate Programs. (See Section 8 of the Table of Contents.)
- Degree Requirements, Grandfathering
- Degree Requirements Guidelines. Under revision. To be posted.
- Name Changes for Campus Units
- Name Changes of Graduate Degree Programs, II.B.2. of the Compendium
- Programmatic Change Requests while under review
- Transfer, Consolidation, Disestablishment, and Discontinuance of Academic Units and Programs
- Transfer, Consolidation, or Discontinuance of Graduate Degree Programs, II.B.3. of the Compendium
Compendium of Universitywide Review Processes
Degree Requirements Guidelines. Under revision. To be posted.
Departmentally-based Graduate Programs (See Section 2 of the Table of Contents)
Designated Emphasis Programs (See Section 6 of the Table of Contents)
- Description and current list
- Ph.D. Program affiliation requests
- Policy, GC Guidelines for proposal
- Policy and Process for the Review of Designated Emphases
Diploma/Record Notation Requests
Directory of Graduate Programs
Doctoral Qualifying Examinations
Double Submission of a Thesis or Dissertation Evaluating and Prioritizing Programs
Evaluation of Requests for Diploma/Record Notation
Graduate Council
Graduate Council Guidelines
- Admission of Graduate Students Transferring from Other Institutions with Their Major Professors
- Bylaws for Graduate Programs
- Bylaws Guidelines for Graduate Programs
- Bylaws Quorum Policy Statement
- Degree Requirements Guidelines. Under revision. To be posted.
- Designated Emphasis Programs (See Section 6 of the Table of Contents)
- Disqualification and Appeal
- Evaluating and Prioritizing Graduate Programs
- Evaluating Requests for Delays of Program Reviews
- Evaluation of Requests for Diploma/Record Notation
- Grandfathering Policy for Degree Requirements
- Master’s-only Graduate Programs, see page 4
- Membership in Graduate Programs
- Mentoring of graduate students
- Objectives for Graduate Education
- Ph.D. Program Affiliation with an Existing Designated Emphasis Program
- Programmatic Change Requests while under Review
- Review of Designated Emphases
- Review of Proposed and Existing ORUs
- Second Ph.D.s, Graduate Council Policy on Applications for Admission to a Second Ph.D. Degree Program (April 2002)
- Service Advanced Degree Committees
- Time-to-Degree
- Transfer Credit Statute of Limitations
- Appointment and Review of Graduate Group Chairs
- Brief Description of Graduate Groups
- Graduate Program Directory
Graduate Program Review Guidelines
Graduate Programs
Graduate Studies Checklist for Proposals for New Graduate Programs. To be posted.
Graduate Studies Handbook. Under revision. To be posted
Grandfathering Policy for Degree Requirements
Handbook for Graduate Studies. Under revision. To be posted.
Joint Doctoral Programs (See Section 9 in the Table of Contents.)
- Approved Guidelines to Issues Necessary to Consider When Collaborative Graduate Programs are Suggested. To be posted.
Joint Doctoral Program Review by Program Review Committee
- Criteria for Reviewing Proposed Joint UC/CSU Doctoral Programs, CCGA Handbook, May 2004 Revision, Appendix G, pages 23-24
- UCD Guidelines for the Establishment of Joint Doctoral Programs Between CSU Campuses and UCD (April 1990). To be posted.
Master’s-only Graduate Programs, see page 4
Membership in Graduate Programs
Mentoring of graduate students
Name Changes of Graduate Degree Programs, II.B.2. of the Compendium
- Approval Sequence. To be posted.
- CCGA Format for Graduate Degree Program Proposal
- Designated Emphasis Proposal Guidelines; Note: The Table of Contents (TOC) for this Acrobat document is "clickable." Click on any entry in the TOC and you will be taken to that item.
- Diploma/Record Notation Requests.
- Graduate Studies Checklist. To be posted.
- Procedures for Proposals. To be posted. Revised Procedures for Academic Senate Review of New Proposals. To be posted.
- Universitywide review procedures
Objectives for Graduate Education
Organized Research Units (ORUs) (See Section 12 in the Table of Contents)
- Appointment and Review of Directors
- GC Guidelines for Review of Proposed and Existing ORUs
- Organized Research, UCD P&PM.
Ph.D. Program Requests for Affiliation with an Existing Designated Emphasis Program
Policy Regulating Programmatic Changes Submitted for Review by Graduate Council (See Section 8 in the Table of Contents)
Policy and Process for the Review of Designated Emphases (See Section 11 in the Table of Contents)
Procedures for Requesting Ph.D. Program Affiliation with an Existing Designated Emphasis Program
Program Review
- Designated Emphases
- Evaluating Requests for Delays of Program Reviews
- Joint Doctoral Program Review; Note: The Table of Contents (TOC) for this Acrobat document is "clickable." Click on any entry in the TOC and you will be taken to that item.
- Policy and Process for the Review of Designated Emphases
Programmatic Change Requests while under Review
Quorum, Bylaws policy statement
Review of Proposed and Existing ORUs
Service on Advanced Degree Committees
Subcommittees of Graduate Council
Transfer, Consolidation, Disestablishment, and Discontinuance of Academic Units and Programs
Transfer, consolidation, or discontinuance of graduate degree programs, II.B.3. of the Compendium
Last Updated: February 13, 2008