Progress review

Progress Review

Purpose: Students are evaluated annually by their committees and more generally by the full graduate faculty to assess timely progress in the program, to identify strengths and challenges, to express concerns, and to celebrate accomplishments.

Process:

1. In early March each year, students will receive an email from the Graduate Program Coordinator (GPC) indicating the process and deadline to submit MA, MA/PhD, or PhD degree-specific information to their adviser and FSoS inside committee members.

2. Students will identify an adviser, committee members, TA/RA supervisors, course instructors, and directed research/independent study supervisors who have worked with or taught them over the past year. The GPC will collect faculty input on student performance and share it with advisers and committee members.

3. Advisers will synthesize faculty input and draft a letter to present to the full graduate faculty at a late April/early May faculty meeting. Following that meeting, each student will receive a letter from their adviser. A copy of the letter will be placed in their file.

Evaluation Criteria:

Students are primarily evaluated on whether or not they are making timely progress in the program (e.g., coursework and milestone completion, progress toward master’s thesis for MA/PhD achieving portfolio competencies, existence of incompletes, GPA, and clinical hours, internship, theory of change papers for CFT students). Faculty evaluation of timely progress will result in the conclusion that students are either in good standing or NOT in good standing in the program. An evaluation of good standing is necessary to be seriously considered for department, college, and university awards and department-based funding.

If it is determined that a student is NOT in good standing, they will receive specific information about why this was deemed to be the case, (i.e., which milestones have not been completed in a timely manner) and what needs to be done to rectify this situation. The adviser will ask the student to submit a plan for addressing the deficiencies to committee members. When the committee agrees that the student has satisfactorily addressed the deficiencies, the student will submit a document detailing the actions taken and date completed to the Director of Graduate Studies and Graduate Program Coordinator so that a copy may be placed in the student’s file. At that point, the student will be returned to good standing.