Graduation Paperwork for Plan C MA/MS Students

Are you planning to Graduate in the Spring?

If you are completing your Plan C MA or MS in the Spring in one of our on-campus programs (LW, AS, or AS/F), please see to following four steps in filing your paperwork. Especially note that step #4 has a Feb 15 deadline!  --Dr. Funda, DGS

1. If you haven’t already, you need to have your Supervisory Committees formed and paperwork filed. If you do not have that paperwork filed, or if changes have been made since you first filed paperwork, follow the instructions here: http://usuenglishgrad.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-is-my-supervisory-committee-and.html. After you have gotten the signatures from you committee members (not Department Head), return the form to my mailbox or mailing address. I will get the Department Head signature and file the form with the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.  

2. If you haven’t already, you need to fill out and file your Program of Study form.  See the detailed instructions at the first link below and on the form itself on the second link.  http://usuenglishgrad.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-is-program-of-study-form-and-why.html  http://rgs.usu.edu/graduateschool/files/uploads/POS_MS.pdf. After you have filled out the form and signed it on page 4, get the signatures of your committee members (not Department Head) and get the form to me again.  I will check the form against the requirements and your transcript, get the Department Head’s signature, and file the form with the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.  

3. If you plan to get an MA rather than an MS and you haven’t already filled out the proper form and provided the documentation, see the instructions here: http://usuenglishgrad.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-are-language-requirements.html.  The form and proper documentation again comes to me (mailbox or mailing address).  I will file it with the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.  

4. Fill out the “Plan C” Completion Form, available at http://rgs.usu.edu/graduateschool/files/uploads/Comp_Req_PlanC.pdf.  Deadline for this to go to the ORGS is Feb 15, so they need to come to me by Feb 7. I will double check that you are on track for completion, sign the form as your Graduate Advisor, and get the paperwork to Office of Research and Graduate Studies by the deadline.  This form simply alerts the Grad School that you are planning to graduate, and once they get it, they will send you materials regarding finishing and the graduation ceremony.  Make sure that you list your name on this form as you want it to appear on your diploma.