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After students apply for candidacy in the Graduate School system and are registered for dissertation hours, they may apply for a study room in the PCL (Perry-Castañeda Library). Occasionally, students may need to share a study room with another graduate student.
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Committees must have at least four members. Three of those members, including the supervisor, must be GSC members (tenure-track faculty) in Educational Psychology. EDP requires at least one of your dissertation committee members be a Full or Associate Professor in Educational Psychology. The Department strongly recommends that at least two of your committee members be from your area of specialization, and that at least one committee member have expertise in your research methodology. Check with your proposed dissertation supervisor regarding any area of specialization requirements for dissertation committee membership. Important Note: Only one committee member (who is not a supervisor or co-supervisor) may be absent from the defense (see section on Final Oral for more information).
One committee member must be from outside the Department of Educational Psychology. If a student elects to have a non-UT scholar, or a UT non-GSC member (non-tenured or non-tenure-track faculty) serve on the committee, the student may be required to submit that member’s CV to the Graduate School before being approved for candidacy. A committee member with no UT-Austin affiliation must be appropriately credentialed to serve on a dissertation committee (i.e., have a Ph.D., J.D., or M.D. degree). If the non-UT member is the only out-of-department committee member, a short statement regarding the members’ appropriateness, as well as the member’s CV, must be submitted to the Graduate Adviser for approval. If the only out-of-department member is a graduate of the Educational Psychology department, that member must have graduated at least 5 years prior to becoming a member of the committee.
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If a committee member enters phased retirement or retirement, leaves the university, or is unable to continue serving on the committee, the student is responsible for replacing the committee member. The student must fill out, obtain signatures on, and submit the Petition Request for Change in Dissertation Committee Request Form immediately on notification that a committee member will need to be changed, and no later than 30 days prior to the Final Oral date, or the Final Oral may have to be rescheduled. Note: if your committee chair is entering phased retirement, they can continue to serve as a co-chair.
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- Write summary and obtain approval from supervisor(s) and any committee members who want to approve before committing to membership.
- Update your Program of Work in your UTBox.
- Complete the departmental form for Application for Candidacy.
- Email completed Application to your committee members (be sure to copy the EDP Graduate Coordinator) and obtain approval from all committee members by return email (Graduate Coordinator does not need to be copied after initial email).
- After all members have approved, file online for candidacy with the Graduate School.
- If you have co-supervisors, input your primary EDP co-supervisor first in the online system. Your primary EDP co-supervisor will be input as Supervisor and the secondary co-supervisor as Co-supervisor.
- You will search for your committee members' names by inputting the last names only and then selecting the correct faculty persons. Non-EDP GSC members and non-UT members will be added in a separate section.
- The Graduate School system does not make paragraph breaks so, if it is very important to you that everyone know where a new paragraph begins in your summary, put <> at the end or beginning of each paragraph. Don't worry about the formatting: everyone involved is used to the system. This system accommodates only 4500 characters, including spaces, and does not allow for anything other than plain text.
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Summer Session: 4th week after classes begin
You can check exact Graduate School deadlines for each semester.
Candidacy Process Flowchart
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