CHAPTER 700: Introduction to Graduate Studies and Summer/Winter Sessions
700.01 GENERAL PURPOSE
The Graduate Studies and Summer/Winter Sessions Office consolidates the resources, programs and services of graduate studies and summer/winter sessions for the purpose of offering high-quality graduate programs. The director of graduate studies oversees and coordinates summer and winter session programming for both undergraduate and graduate students in order to provide course offerings that assist students from Cortland and the regional area in their degree completion.
The director of graduate studies and summer/winter sessions ensures the uniform development and application of policies and procedures across all graduate programs; works with the academic deans on program development; and, ensures the efficient and timely delivery of academic programs and services to graduate students.
CHAPTER 705: Graduate Studies
705.01 GENERAL PURPOSE
The purpose of graduate study at SUNY Cortland is directed towards the fulfillment of the following objectives:
- The expansion, deepening and strengthening of professional knowledge as a scholarly and creative activity;
- The improvement of techniques for the dissemination and application of existing knowledge and the generation of new knowledge;
- The development of a greater understanding of the theories and findings underlying individual disciplines; and,
- The fostering of a critical ability to deal analytically and insightfully with the problems, methods and instruments of research in a given area of study.
705.02 ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Overall administrative responsibility for graduate study at the College is assigned to the director of graduate studies and summer/winter sessions. In close consultation with the academic deans, department chairs and graduate coordinators, the Graduate Studies Office handles administrative matters such as the coordination of course offerings, encouraging curriculum and faculty development, graduate assistantships, change of degree status, candidacy, the review of academic performance of graduate students, all registration functions for graduate students and admissions to all graduate programs. Admission to graduate programs at the College is handled through the Graduate Studies Office. Applications for graduate degrees and certification are handled through the Graduate Studies Office.
705.03 ROLE OF GRADUATE FACULTY
The role of the graduate faculty at SUNY Cortland in the governance of the College is described in detail in 150.04 of this document.
705.04 MOHAWK VALLEY GRADUATE CENTER
The Graduate Studies Office supervises the SUNY Cortland Mohawk Valley Graduate Center at the State University of New York Institute of Technology, Utica, New York.
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CHAPTER 710: Summer/Winter Sessions
710.01 GENERAL PURPOSE
The director of graduate studies and summer/winter sessions is responsible for the promotion, administration and scheduling of both undergraduate and graduate courses during the College's summer and winter sessions. This responsibility entails working with deans, departments and faculty to offer courses that are needed by Cortland students as well as courses that are attractive to students from other colleges. The office is responsible for faculty contracts, submission of information to payroll, submission of classes to the registrar, scheduling of classrooms and making course cancellations in conjunction with the academic deans of the three schools.
Registration for the summer and winter sessions is handled by the college registrar for undergraduate students and by the Graduate Studies Office for graduate students.
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