Northeastern Higher Education (Summer 2005) Handbook

Introduction

This handbook is designed to provide Ed.D. Higher Education students in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration (EdPA) with a readily available source of information about their program, 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 policy sections, and the Graduate Student Handbook (contains details about available resources not found elsewhere; see Chapter 5 for summary of document).

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 EdPA 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 announcements. 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 http://www.umn.edu/dirtools.

All advising faculty have a copy of this handbook. Both Graduate School and department forms can be found on the Web.