Communication Graduate Program Director Position Description
Approved 5/2/1991
Amendment approved 4/19/06
Ongoing Graduate Program Director Duties
(Subject to Revision)
Recruitment
- Maintain the graduate website
- Talk with prospective grad students
Admissions
- Process admission applications
- Coordinate review of new applications
- Work with the Basic Course Director to keep him/her informed about new possibilities for teaching assistants
Helping current students through the program to graduation
- Advise all graduate students, including assigning faculty mentors and guiding students to select thesis or non-thesis options as early as their second semester
- Visit graduate courses in Fall
- Coordinate advisory committee work for both thesis and non-thesis degree requirements
- Remind students of the need to do plan of study and graduate application
- Approve (or not) requests for cognate courses from students who do not have their committee yet
- Check plans of study against the transcript to be sure course titles are correct and have met requirements
- Remind faculty of important dates involving the grad program
- Coordinate with committee chairs fulfillment of thesis and non-thesis degree requirements
- Track student good standing and fulfillment of conditions of admission
- Upload thesis and non-thesis projects to opus.ipfw.edu
- Process graduation paperwork for Purdue
Administrative
- Call meetings of the Communication graduate faculty when necessary
- Propose/consider changes in graduate policy/procedures with graduate faculty
- Maintain 3 databases: Admissions, current student progress, alumni
- Create course rotation
- Schedule grad courses
- Attend meetings of graduate program directors
- Talk to new faculty about graduate faculty responsibilities
- Submit necessary paperwork to certify eligible faculty as Purdue Graduate Faculty
Advocacy
- Be an advocate for graduate students and teaching assistants
- Advocate for grad program with OAA/Dean/Department when necessary
