The Office of Graduate Studies provides a wide range of services to prospective and existing UCSD graduate students and campus departments on all graduate education matters including: diversity outreach and recruitment; graduate admissions; enhancing the quality of graduate student life; student financial support, fellowships, and traineeships; graduate student advising and advocacy; retention programs; development and oversight of graduate degree programs; interpretation and application of policies and common standards of high quality in graduate programs across campus; collaboration with Graduate Council and Graduate Student Association; administrative oversight of the Center for Teaching Development; and coordination of graduate commencement activities