Graduate Handbook:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
CONDITIONS OF GRADUATE AWARDS

1. Eligibility. To maintain eligibility for financial support, a graduate student must:
1. maintain his/her status as a full time matriculated student in the MA or PhD program of this department,
2. maintain a B average (See Funding Policies, Academic Standards in the  Graduate Handbook .),
3. maintain satisfactory degree progress (see B) below.), and
4. satisfactorily perform whatever service responsibilities are required of him/her in connection with his/her award (as determined by the chairperson of the department or by person(s) delegated by the chairperson to make that determination.
2. Satisfactory degree progress. The Graduate Committee of the Department of Mathematical Sciences determines which students are making satisfactory degree progress. It meets early in the spring semester of each year to review the progress of every student receiving financial aid from the department. Each student is given, no later than 15 March, a letter indicating whether the student will or will not be supported the following year; a student may be told that the support decision will depend on the student's grades during the current (spring) semester. Some considerations regarding satisfactory progress are:
1. In the past the Graduate Committee has considered maintenance of a B average to be satisfactory progress toward an MA provided the student can reasonably expect to complete work on the MA within a 2 year period.
2. Maintenance of a B average is not sufficient to demonstrate satisfactory degree progress toward the PhD. Academic standards for PhD students are, naturally, higher.
3. Admission to PhD candidacy can affect the decision on whether a PhD student is making satisfactory progress. A page giving current departmental guidelines on this subject is attached.
3. Length of Support. Once a graduate student has been given an award, it is the department's intent to provide support so long as the student maintains eligibility and financial resources are available to provide the funding. Limitations on Graduate School support (i.e., fellowships, TA/GA awards, tuition scholarships) are:
1. two years for a student working toward an MA degree, and
2. five years (Including years of support while working toward an MA) for a student working toward the PhD degree. (A sixth year of support may be possible as an adjunct but no tuition scholarship award is made to an adjunct.)
In the past the department has been able to support, as adjuncts, those PhD students who have been making satisfactory degree progress and who have exceeded the time limitations mentioned above.

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