2005-06 Ed.D. Handbook

Introduction

This handbook is designed to provide Ed.D. students in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration (EdPA) with a readily available source of information about their programs, procedures, and graduate student resources. The handbook augments and is not a substitute for other sources of information. Students should refer to the following comprehensive documents for more details: The Graduate School Catalog, University of Minnesota provides information about major program regulations, the Twin Cities Class Schedule includes regulations and deadlines for each semester, and the Graduate Student Handbook, contains details about available resources not found elsewhere.

Students should note that the University-assigned student e-mail account is the University’s official means of communication with all students. Students are responsible for all information sent to them via the university assigned e-mail account. The university, graduate school, and department rely on the university student e-mail accounts and not the postal service for important communications, e.g., tuition billing, degree clearances for graduation, department events and position opportunities. Students are responsible for all information including attachments sent to their University e-mail account. If students arrange to have their University e-mail account forwarded to a private account, then the student must remember to change the forwarding destination of the University account, if and when, the private account is changed. The University account mail can be forwarded at www.umn.edu/dirtools.

All advising faculty have a hard copy of this handbook. Both the graduate school and department forms can be found on the web (see Chapter 4 for listing of forms and sources).