THESES AND DISSERTATIONS 10/23/70 Discussed as to format, rules, regulations, and acceptance. It was felt that the guidelines should be reasonably uniform, with details left to the departments. Concurred that 3 graduate faculty members, 2 of which should be from the degree-granting department should sign the face of the thesis. 1/29/71 Felt that the master's theses general policy statement should be expanded. J. Cary to submit suggestions to the Graduate Office. 2/19/71 Master's theses recommendation approved for academic deans' review. 3/19/71 Suggested appointing a permanent sub-committee to provide continual appraisal of these to ensure quality control. 11/4/71 Discussed placing a copy of student theses in the library and whether only the members of graduate facultty have authority to approved master's thesis. General feeling was that such a regulation was necessary to maintain some level of quality control. Suggestion made to allow advisors who are not members of graduate faculty to sign a thesis and add the name of another graduate faculty member. 7/18/72 Approved that two copies of the thesis must be submitted by the student for binding. Extra copies that departments may require from the student need not be bound. Each department to submit a copy of its thesis regulations to the Graduate Office for the purpose of developing standardized thesis regulations. 10/5/72 Agreed that Graduate Office should be the final check on masters' theses. Approved that the thesis advisor, along with another member of the student's major department, must be members of the graduate faculty in order to sign the student's thesis. The third person signing a student's thesis need not be a member of the graduate faculty. 10/18/73 Turned over case of Chemical Engineering M.S. candidate who refused to surrender his original thesis to the Petitions subcommittee. 11/29/73 Denied student's petition not to submit his original thesis copy. 5/14/75 Advised Graduate Dean that a form should be created and sent to all graduate programs on which program directors would inform the Dean and Graduation Office that the Master's degree candidate had completed all coursework and passed oral/comprehensive/written examination (if applicable) or that thesis has been accepted. 1/16/80 Dean discussed problems that have arisen with some thesis committees. Recommended that a standard form for thesis title, short description ofthe work to be accomplished, and the committee membership be submitted to the student's department, college dean, and Graduate College 10/13/82 Supported participation in Dissertation Abstracts through University Microfilms International, with students having the option to copyright their dissertations. 11/17/82 Recommended that the Dean issue a memo to graduate depts. clarifying the Thesis Approval Form's purpose and intent and that Graduate Studies signature is an acknowlegement that the student student is in good academic standing and that the composition of the composition of the thesis/disseration comm. meets the minumum number of graduate faculty members requirement. 2/9/83 Reviewed and revised the thesis directions page-by-page. 3/9/83 Thesis/dissertations guidelines revisedapproved. Unusual dissertation/thesis formats to be approved by the student's advisory committee, graduate program and GC before the selection of a research topic and before the committee begins its review of the student's research activities. 10/19/83 Revised guidelines to read: original or professional quality copy". 12/11/85 Approved requiring Student Dissertation/Thesis Comms. to include one member external to the degree program, and that student defenses are to be public. 3/10/87 Eliminated requirement of an outside member on master's degree thesis committees. 1/12/88 Referred matter of automatic dismissal for students receiving a third NS grades for thesis/dissertation work to the departments. Referred to the departments whether requiring students to register for 1 credit hour of thesis/dissertation work until completed is sufficient to guarantee that a student is making progress. 12/8/92 Recommended that these and dissertation format verifications be performed by library personnel. 11/29/95 External member of a dissertation defined as one who is external to the discipline. Signatures on thesis/dissertation approval form signifies approval at 3 levels: department, college, & graduate college. 11/10/98 Institutional Review Board policy for requirements on thesis/dissertation research approved. 4/8/13 Approved not requiring the submission of a paper copy of a thesis or disseration