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DEPARTMENTAL
RESPONSIBILITIES
For a full list of personnel
in the department, please visit the People
section. |
| Director
of Graduate Studies |
Charles
Gross |
| Graduate
Program Administrator |
Tamara
Thatcher |
Graduate
Studies Office
All matters pertaining to graduate students are coordinated
through the Graduate Studies Office. Contact the Graduate Studies
Office for any concerns involving academic, financial and student
life matters. |
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Department
Manager
Budgetary and administrative affairs are the responsibility
of Bernie VanUiter. You are advised to see her, or Carol Agans,
if you have any questions regarding policies, procedures, purchases,
equipment, etc. that cannot be taken care of by the Graduate
Studies Office or your adviser. |
Bernie
VanUiter |
Assistant
Department Manager/Business Office
Financial matters regarding purchasing, subject payment, travel
payment are coordinated by Carol Agans. |
Carol
Agans |
Department
Office / Secretarial Center
The services of the Department Office / Secretarial Center are
available to students. All requests must have been previously
approved by a faculty member. Please see the Administrator for the Secretarial Center in 1-S-4 Green Hall |
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For information about the Psychology Library,
click here.
| WOOD, MACHINE, AND ELECTRIC
SHOPS |
Shop labor is purchased by grants, or if required
for a course, by the teaching budget. To schedule shop projects, complete
work order forms and have them signed by your adviser or the
faculty instructor of the course in which you are teaching.
The department and / or faculty research grants
will provide students with computing money for research purposes.
The University also provides each student with a $750.00 "STUDY"
account and students are encouraged to open a study account. Computers
connected to a printer are available in 2-N-2 Green Hall for graduate
students and staff.
A department research fund is available to
students who are supported by outside agencies. Eligible students
are those with grants and fellowships which pay their full tuition.
These students may draw up to $l,000 over a three-year period. See
below for guidelines and procedure for expenditures. Approval forms
are available in the Graduate Studies Office.
Any research or teaching related expenses
must have an appropriate account number or course number and the prior
approval of your adviser or course instructor. Any expenditures
for courses must also be approved by the Department Manager before
the expense is incurred. Contact the Accounting Office, Room
1-S-18 Green Hall, for information about reimbursement procedures
and record keeping.
Many students will be conducting research
involving human subjects. RoseMarie Stevenson can advise you on the
procedures used to obtain volunteers and to protect the rights of
the participants. Students who intend to use human subjects should
contact RoseMarie Stevenson in Room 1-S-17 Green Hall, prior to beginning
a project. For more the full guidelines on using human subjects, click
here.
Each graduate student is assigned a mail box.
These are located in the "Psyber Cafe" (Room 1-N-2), in
the north wing of Green Hall. Students should check for mail frequently,
as this is the department's major means of communication.
Stipends are paid monthly on the last working
day of each month during the term of appointment. Checks can be picked
up in the Business Office (see Carol Agans), Room 1-S-18 Green Hall.
Building keys may be checked out from Vera
Sohl, in the Department Office/ Secretarial Center, Room l-S-4 Green
Hall. Graduate Students have an option of paying a $10.00 refundable
deposit per key or signing a statement that says they will return
their keys before the scheduling of the Final Public Oral Examination.
Any missing keys will be billed at $l0.00 per key.
TRAVEL TO
CONFERENCES
The department will reimburse
students for travel to conferences of up to $1,000.00 over the
total time that graduate students are enrolled, divided in the
following manner: |
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Travel
funds of $150.00 per conference if the student does not present
a paper or poster. |
| b)
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Travel
funds of $300.00 if the student does present a paper or poster.
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| **Note:
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1.
Any reimbursement cannot exceed $300.00
2. May include more than one (1) conference
per year.
For payment, students should first obtain the reimbursement
forms from the Graduate Studies Office (Room 1-C-3 Green Hall).
Then, submit these completed forms to Tamara Thatcher (Room
1-C-3) with the original and two copies of receipts and program
information to support this request. |
Graduate students who wish to enroll in a summer
program for educational training, workshops, etc., will receive from
the department $1,000.00 to help cover the corresponding tuition.
Students will only receive this funding with their adviser's support
and the Director of Graduate Studies' approval. Students can obtain
reimbursement forms from the Graduate Studies Office (Room 1-C-3 Green
Hall). Then submit these completed forms to Tamara Thatcher (Room
1-C-3) with the original and two copies of receipts and program information
to support this request.
To use the RICOH AFICIO
machines you must have a four-digit "log-on" number.
To copy material for grant related work: Anyone who
is copying materials related to grants should obtain the grant number
from the principal investigator, which Bernie VanUiter will issue
to the faculty member in charge of the grant. The machine will automatically
record the number of copies made. Please be sure to press the orange
and yellow clear buttons simultaneously to log-off. Please remember
that the copy machine in the Department Office/Secretarial Center
is for administrative use.
To copy material for course related work: There will be a log-on number
assigned for course work which may be obtained from the Department
Office/Secretarial Center. You must record the course number and the
number of copies made in the blue course book located in the xerox
room.
Please remember that the copy machine in the Department Office/Secretarial
Center, is for administrative use.
CANON COPIER: Use same procedure as above.
| GRADUATE
STUDENT EDUCATION COMMITTEE |
The Graduate Student Education Committee is
intended as a communication link between the faculty and the graduate
students as a whole. It is meant to compliment all the other more
informal channels of communication. The committee usually consists
of representatives from all areas elected by a ballot (listing all
eligible full-time students). The newly
elected members begin service on June 1 and serve one year. Members
may be re-elected and two or more persons can jointly fulfill the
-responsibilities of one member. The committee is responsible for
communicating suggestions and grievances to the faculty.
| GRADUATE
STUDENT TEACHING REQUIREMENTS |
Every Ph.D. candidate in Psychology is required
to teach at least three class hours during their graduate career.
Three semester hours of teaching, then, is the minimum required for
the degree, although most students teach more than three hours over
their graduate careers. In any case, students will be appointed as
Assistantships in Instruction and paid for any hours that they teach.
Graduate students typically receive support
from outside agencies (e.g., NSF), research grants (as an Assistant
in Research), and/or from the Psychology Department teaching budget
(as an Assistant in Instruction). In addition, students typically
take 2-4 courses or seminars per semester, attend colloquia, research
seminars, lab meetings, and informal discussions. Expectations regarding
a student's time, commitment, responsibilities, level of performance
in research, teaching, and course work are conveyed by relevant individual
faculty. If you do not feel you understand these expectations, you
should attempt to clarify the situation by talking to the relevant
faculty member(s) or the Director of Graduate Studies. Regardless
of the source of financial support, distribution of financial support
(e.g., l/2 AI, l/2 AR) or number of courses, all full time graduate
students are expected to be engaged full time in activities related
to their training in scholarship, research, and teaching. Therefore,
a student should not take on other commitments such as an additional
job without first discussing the idea with his or her adviser.
Regardless of the source of student's financial
support, graduate students are expected to work essentially full time
fulfilling degree requirements. Graduate students therefore accrue
no specific vacation time other than the normal short holiday periods
observed by the University, such as winter recess, spring break and
the inter-term period.
| APPLYING
FOR A FELLOWSHIP |
When applying for a fellowship, please make
sure that the fellowship pays at least 1/2 tuition or more. If students
apply for a fellowship that does not pay tuition, they must consult
with the Director of Graduate Studies before applying for this fellowship.
Note: Students will be discouraged from applying
or accepting a fellowship that does not pay at least l/2 tuition or
more, unless student's adviser can make up the difference.
GUIDELINES
AND PROCEDURE FOR RESEARCH FUND EXPENDITURE
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Guidelines:
Funds may be applied for the following research related expenses:
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1.
Supplies
2. Travel
3. Subject payments (study must be IRP approved)
4. Salaries (hiring)
5. Books and journals
6. Equipment
All equipment purchases will be considered department property.
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| Procedure |
Obtain
prior approval of expenditure using Expenditure Approval Forms
available through the Graduate Studies Office. |
| Attach
all vouchers to the Approval Form when applying for reimbursement.
The Business Office will handle the invoice form and the Director
of Graduate Studies will give final approval of the actual expenses.
Whenever possible the University's purchasing system should
be used for your purchase. |
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