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After your defense, the Report of Dissertation Committee Form must be signed by all committee members. Those committee members who are not physically present at your final oral must sign the form digitally. The Graduate School no longer allows proxy signatures on this form. All signatures must be on the same form. Once all signatures are obtained, the supervisor or student must then have the GSC Chair sign it and return it to you.
The white signature sheet must also be signed by all dissertation committee members, and you will turn that in to the Graduate School (Main Building, Room 1), with other required materials, after you upload your dissertation for graduation (see Graduation information). No proxy signatures are allowed on the white signature form. Digital signatures are accepted from all dissertation members with the exception of the dissertation supervisor, who must provide an ink signature.
Students will hold on to their signed Report of Dissertation Committee Form - as well their corrected dissertation and any other required materials - until the semester they plan to graduate. Once they have applied to graduate, the final edited dissertation document must be uploaded through the Graduate School portal. Once the dissertation is uploaded, you will then email the Graduate School your Report of Dissertation Committee Form as well as any other required forms to gradstudentsvcs@austin.utexas.edu. (Students going on internship following the final oral will wait to upload the dissertation and turn in the required Graduate School materials until they have completed internship and are graduating.)
Successfully defending a dissertation includes obtaining all signatures on the white signature sheet and the Gold Form, and turning in to the Graduate School to verify completion of degree requirements (except internship). The Graduate Adviser will follow-up with the Graduate School by email each semester/summer to ensure the requirement for future dissertation registrations are waived.
Students will hold on to their corrected dissertation and other materials, to be uploaded and submitted by the last class day of the semester they graduate. (Students going on internship following the final oral will wait to upload the dissertation and turn in the required Graduate School materials - except the Gold Form - until they have completed internship and are graduating).
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is waived for those students who have successfully defended and are on internship. Remember: Students’ last semester of dissertation registration is the one in which they successfully defend their dissertation.
Students should be careful to ensure their dissertations are ready to upload , and that all materials are in the Graduate School office before the deadline. Failure to have everything turned in by the deadline means a student will have to register for dissertation hours for again the following fall semester, and is may also be subject to fees for past semesters of waived dissertation hours.