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What does a PhD Committee do?
I have been reading that many students have a PhD committee. I assume this is a group of experts supervising the student.
In my case, and I think this is quite common, I had two people. One was the ...
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Should you choose your committee members or should your advisor?
The question of how to choose PhD committee members has already been asked and answered in general terms, but I have the following more specific questions regarding the choice:
Is it more important ...
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How to select a dissertation committee member wisely?
I'm currently developing my dissertation proposal, and am in the process of choosing my committee members. I have heard that one should carefully choose their committee members, since they ultimately ...
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What is a committee looking for in a dissertation proposal?
I've started narrowing down the scope of my dissertation, and I have one year before I need to defend my proposal. I'm curious to know what is expected from a dissertation proposal. What are the key ...
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How to ask someone (outside the department) to be on the thesis committee
I have to request a faculty member outside of my department to be on my thesis committee and I was wondering how I should go about doing this. To be frank, I don't really see why someone would be ...
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Dismissed by my committee
I attended a doctoral program and was completing it in 3 to 4 years. I got a life-threatening sickness that set me back several years. When nearing my dissertation I was dismissed. I was told that I ...
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Assistant professor vs Associate professor
What's the difference between an associate professor and an assistant professor?
What can one of them do that the other can't? and which is a higher level? can any of them supervise a PhD student?
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What are some guidelines to keep in mind when selecting members of one's PhD committee?
Especially if they are on a committee that determines what topics are on your prelims?
(I do intend this to be a generalizable question useful for people with different student-selected committee ...
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What role do professors on a graduate student's PhD committee serve?
Do they discuss the graduate student in meetings with each other? Or do they have any obligations to interact with the graduate student in other ways?
