Procedures

• For a variety of reasons a doctoral committee may need to be reconstituted. The request to reconstitute the membership of a committee, including departmental affiliation, with the reasons for requesting the change must be submitted in writing by the department to the dean of Graduate Studies.

• Requests must be approved by the department chair and committee chair, and submitted to OGS no less than two weeks prior to the qualifying examination or defense of the dissertation.

The following policy is a general one for all doctoral students at UCSD. A department may have more specific requirements for appointments (e.g., a departmental ladder rank faculty member on each committee) and the department chair has final departmental authority to recommend a committee.