Forms & Governance
Graduate Program Director's Materials
- Appointment of a Graduate Program Director
- Best Practices for Dissertation Advisors and Advisees
- Governance Process of the Graduate Studies Committee
- Roles and Responsibilities of the Graduate Program Director
- Dissertation Tracking Form Stage 1 - Notification of Candidacy
- Dissertation Tracking Form Stage 2 - Notification of Proposed Dissertation Committee
- Dissertation Tracking Form Stage 3 - Notification of Proposal Acceptance
- Dissertation Tracking Form Stage 4 - Notification of Intent to Defend Dissertation
- Dissertation Tracking Form Stage 5 - Results of Dissertation Defense
Academic Integrity
- Academic Integrity at UMass Boston
- Student Code of Conduct
- For Students: Includes resources for students to learn about academic integrity, decision making about academic integrity, and to help prevent making academic integrity errors
- For Faculty: Includes best practices, tools for teaching, and summary of options for addressing students' academic integrity errors
- Academic integrity incident reporting form: If a faculty member intends to impose a sanction
- The faculty member first sends notification of proposing the sanction (see Appendix B, step 2, for details) and offering to meet with the student to discuss.
- As a result of meeting or further discussion, more information may come to light and faculty member may decide not to impose the sanction.
- If the faculty member imposes a sanction, the sanction should be imposed within 10 business days of proposing the sanction or the meeting between faculty and student to discuss, whichever is later.
- The Maxient form linked above is for faculty to fill out when a faculty member formally initially sends the student notice of the incident and proposes a sanction (the form requires authentication of faculty member who fills the form).
Governance Policies, Procedures, and Forms
Many curriculum governance processes are being handled through Curriculog. Please see information on how to submit proposed curriculum and course changes via Curriculog.
- Academic Program Change Approval Form
- Online_Proposals_Elements.doc
- Elements of Proposals for the Online Delivery of Graduate Courses
- GSC Syllabus Template
- Recommended syllabus language (August 25, 2021)
- Guidelines and Definitions Concerning Proposals for the Online Delivery of Graduate Programs
- Guidelines for Preparing Graduate Course Outlines
- Pre-Matriculation Waiver Form
- MA Department of Higher Education Academic Program Approval and Review Process
- Online Graduate Program Approval Process
- Schedule Intent Form for a Special Topics Course
- Seeking Governance Approval