University of Arkansas

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University of Arkansas

• Graduate School

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• Collis Geren
• Vice Provost for Research
• Dean of the Graduate School
• Ph.D. in Biochemistry
• Patricia Koski
• Associate Dean of the Graduate School
• Ph.D. in Sociology
• pkoski_at_uark.edu

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The Graduate School

• http//www.uark.edu/grad
• International and Graduate Admissions Office
• Dickson Street Annex (across from Bell
  Engineering), Unit 8 / 575-6246 
• Graduate School Deans Office
• 119 Ozark Hall / 575-4401
• Office of Graduate and International Recruitment
• 106 Ozark Hall / 575-5869
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Office
• 119 Ozark Hall / 575-4401

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The Graduate School Mission Statement

• The Graduate School assists post-baccalaureate
  students with the opportunity to further their
  educational goals through programs of study,
  teaching, and research in an environment that
  promotes freedom of expression, intellectual
  inquiry, and professional integrity.

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The Graduate School Core Values

• The Graduate School promotes graduate education
  by
• Striving for Excellence
• Advocating for the Graduate Student
• Setting and Enforcing Policies
• Seeking and Celebrating Diversity
• Providing Service to the University

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The Graduate School

• Provides information to students, faculty and
  staff
• Involves students in decision making
• Creates and enforces policies
• Monitors student progress
• Advocates for the student
• Ensures quality
• Seeks out and uses benchmarking information

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Rights and Responsibilities

• As a graduate student, you are in a
  partnership with your department/program, the
  Graduate School, and the University. You have
  both rights and responsibilities as part of that
  team.

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University Organization

• Arkansas Department of Higher Education
• U of A System Board of Trustees
• President of University System B. Alan Sugg
• Chancellor of Fayetteville campus G. David
  Gearhart

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University Organization (cont.)

• Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
  Bob McMath
• Colleges and schools
• Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and
  Life Sciences
• School of Architecture
• J. William Fulbright College of Arts Sciences
• Sam M. Walton College of Business
• College of Education Health Professions
• College of Engineering
• School of Law
• Graduate School
• Global Campus

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REMEMBER

• THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IS YOUR DEANS OFFICE

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Rights

• As a graduate student, you have the right
• To be treated with respect and dignity.
• To expect competent instruction and a
  high-quality degree
• To be free from sexual harassment

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Responsibilities

• As a graduate student, you have the
  responsibility to
• Refrain from academic misconduct
• Refrain from research misconduct
• Report instances of academic or research
  misconduct
• Strive for your best

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A SPECIAL CAUTION ABOUT E-MAIL

• Please remember that e-mails are never private.
• If you say something in an e-mail, be comfortable
  with seeing it on the front page of your local
  newspaper or the Chronicle of Higher Education!
• Remember that e-mails get their inflection from
  the reader, not from the sender.

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E-Mails (cont.)

• Never use an e-mail to convey a negative emotion!
• From a faculty member to a student I cannot
  afford paying a student or putting any of my time
  with a student who is not contributing to the
  project and complaining about almost every thing
  in my Lab and my instructions to my group.

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E-Mails (cont.)

• Always maintain professionalism
• From a student to a faculty member reviewing the
  students paper for submission to a journal
  edited by the faculty member The weaknesses
  in the paper occur because of the journals
  length requirement. In order to meet the
  requirement only about 35 of the paper was
  submitted. If the entire paper had been allowed
  to be submitted, many of the questions the
  reviewers posed would have been answered. I do
  not wish to resubmit any work.

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• Dont make illegal offers
• From a student to a faculty member Ill do
  anything I can to get that grade backAll Im
  asking is another chance, but I learned that in
  this world nothing is freejust tell me how much
  you need for your books or for your needs and we
  can make a secret agreement between you and me.
  Nobody has to know about this.

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• or threats
• From a student to me Since Dr. was unable
  to help me graduate this May, I decided to take
  an honorable job in Palestine with the
  Palestinian Islamic Jihad Organization to pursue
  a more noble cause freedom, justice and peace
  for Palestinians and to fight the Israel
  terrorism. (This e-mail ended up in federal
  court.)

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Graduate School Policies

• Graduate School Honor Code
• (Graduate School Catalog, 2008-09, page 22)
• Academic Honesty Policy for Graduate Students
• (Graduate School Catalog, 2008-09, page 34)
• Academic Grievance Procedures for Graduate
  Students
• (Graduate School Catalog, 2008-09, page 24)
• Research Scholarly Misconduct Policies and
  Procedures (Graduate School Catalog, 2008-09,
  page 28)