Policies

Appeals

• Appeals Procedure (effective 1 July 2004)

Avoiding Problems Before They Happen

• Avoiding Plagarism: Honesty in Academics
• Graduate Students with Language Problems (Department guidelines)
• Documenting Unusual Graduate Student Situations (Department guidelines)

Courses

• Students who do not maintain faculty standards in courses (Department guidelines)

Examinations

• Departmental Written Examinations for PhDs (Department guidelines)
  • Current Regulations (for students entering PhD January 2011 or later)
  • Regulations prior to January 2011 (can be chosen by students entering PhD May 2009 or later)
• External Examiners, Guidelines for
• External Readers, Guidelines for Using
• Neutral Chairs - Oral Thesis and Candidacy Examinations
• Neutral Chairs - Selecting a Neutral Chair (Department guidelines)
• Videoconferences

Funding

• Graduate Student Financial Support (Department guidelines)
• How Department Research Awards are Decided (Departmental Guidelines)
• How Graduate Student Scholarships are Ranked (Departmental Guidelines)
• How To Write a Scholarship Reference Letter (Departmental Guidelines)

Intellectual Property

• Intellectual Property Information

Space

• Space Allocation Policy for Graduate Students

Supervision

• Handbooks of Supervision and Examination
• Checklist of Expectations for Graduate Student and Supervisor
• Supervisory Policy (FGS)
• Supervisory Policy (Computer Science, effective July 1, 2009)
• Supervision During Sabbatical Fellowships and Other Periods of Leave
• Graduate Supervision by Individuals Without a Continuing Board Appt. (contact Graduate Program Officer, Craig Ireland)
• When students request a change of supervisors (Departmental guidelines)

Teaching Assistantships

• TA Policy
• TA Guidelines
• TA Interim Report Form
• TA Evaluation form(Word)
• TA Evaluation form (pdf)

For regulations relating to Graduate Assistantship – Teaching funding, visit the Agreement between the Governors of the University of Calgary and the Graduate Students' Association, May 1, 2011-April 30, 2014.

General Graduate Studies Policies
For information on the Faculty of Graduate Studies’ policies and procedures, please visit the Graduate Studies Handbook