/Institutions/Southern-University-and-A-M-College/json/2024-2026/Graduate-Catalog-local.json

/Institutions/Southern-University-and-A-M-College/json/2024-2026/Graduate-Catalog.json

Student Advising and Mentoring

An integral part of graduate education is the advisement and mentoring of students. Therefore, each student must be assigned an advisor by the department chair. This advisor will be a mentor to the student during his/her entire program of study. However, each student is personally responsible for knowing all requirements established for his/her degree and for adhering to all published regulations of the University. It is the student's responsibility to be aware of and adhere to these regulations and to satisfy his/her degree requirements. A student's advisor or counselor may not assume that responsibility. Any substitution, waiver, or exemption from any established departmental or college requirement or academic standard may be accomplished only with the recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate School and approval of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. 

Advisement procedures and responsibilities are as follows: 

• Every graduate student must be assigned an advisor in his/her academic department. At the time of admission, the student, in consultation with the department chairperson and the graduate coordinator, will select an advisor 
• A Plan of Study is to be formulated at the beginning of the first semester in Graduate School by the advisor and student, signed by the advisor, and submitted for review to the Graduate School. The signed original will be filled with the students graduate records. The department shall maintain appropriate records, which indicate the progress of the student in fulfilling the requirements of the graduate degree. The advisor, 
• through appropriate department channels, will process applications for candidates for graduation and submit them to the Graduate School 
• Students who wish to take graduate courses under a non-degree (non-matriculated) status, must seek permission from the academic department offering those courses 
• Even though advisors are appointed to assist graduate students in every practicable way, it is the personal responsibility of each graduate student to know the rules, standards, and requirements as stated in the current University catalog and to observe all regulations, and meet all requirements of the Graduate School, the respective academic program, and Southern University.