Ph.D. in Information Systems
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Procedures
PhD Proposal Approval Procedure:
The following is the procedure to be used by PhD students and advisors in order to initiate the proposal review process:
- Once the proposal is ready, it should be sent to PhD Committee Email. The proposal will be checked to confirm:
- Title adherence to proposal topic
- How realistic are the goals
- Sufficient number of references
- Initial language check
- Plagiarism
- The Advisor should nominate 5 faculty members, by filling the Proposal Reviewer Nomination Form and sending it to the PhD Committee Email. The following should be taken into account:
- All 5 faculty must be involved in the proposal’s research area.
- Assistant Professors can also part of the review panel. However, they will not be able to be part of the Defense committee (unless they are promoted to associate professors by the time of the formal finalization of the defense committee)
- Once the proposal passes the initial check in “1”, and the PhD committee receives the Proposal Reviewer Nomination Form, the Proposal is formally entered into the department council meeting
- After the department council approval, the proposal, along with the Proposal Reviewer Nomination Form is sent to the CCIS PhD council to select the 3 faculty review panel.
- The PhD committee in turn will communicate the names to the advisor
- The advisor should send the proposal, and the Proposal Review Form to the 3 faculty review panel. AT THE SAME TIME, the advisor should schedule the day/time/location of the proposal presentation
- The advisor must make sure that the reviewers send their review before the proposal presentation, to allow the student to incorporate the changes requested.
- After the completion of the proposal presentation, the advisor should ask the review panel to fill and sign the Proposal Presentation Form.
- The advisor should send to the PhD committee
- The 3 Proposal Review Forms (that must be completed by the panel before the presentation)
- The Proposal Presentation Form
The Proposal Presentation Form is finally sent to the PhD Council for final approval of the PhD proposal.