Guidance Committee

According to the EPET program handbook: The purpose of the guidance committee is to ensure that each student in the program makes timely progress towards their professional and scholarly goals. The guidance committee helps the student, under its care, articulate their scholarly goals and research objectives, and then helps them to meet those goals, first by constructing and completing an appropriate program of study (program plan), and then by conceptualizing, proposing, and completing an appropriate dissertation study. All EPET guidance committees will be composed of at least four tenure system faculty, at least two of whom are members of the EPET program faculty, and at least one of whom is outside of EPET. Additional members of guidance committees are permitted (as needed) but not required. All other general university regulations for guidance committee membership must be observed. Approved, non-tenure stream faculty can also serve on guidance committees as appropriate. The guidance committee is variously referred to in different documents throughout the university, sometimes as a program committee or dissertation committee. Essentially, it is the same supportive committee, with its composition and role changing throughout doctoral study.

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