Dear Faculty and Graduate Students:
Following yesterday evening’s announcements from the President and Provost, and today’s announcements from the Vice Provosts and Deans, I want to provide guidance regarding graduate thesis defense and checkout.
As mentioned in the President’s announcement, “our primary goal is to minimize the impact of COVID-19 to the health of our community and to our ability to deliver on our education mission – in the near term, we want our students to complete the spring semester and to stay on schedule to graduation.”
With this in mind, we will permit students to hold thesis defenses entirely in Zoom (i.e. an all-virtual thesis defense is acceptable) for students graduating in May 2020. All necessary checkout procedures and paperwork requirements will remain the same.
Kind Regards,
Wendy Zhou, Ph.D.
Dean of Graduate Studies
NOTE: More information on Zoom is available at https://its.mines.edu/zoom/.