Resources for Students

Penalties and Procedures for Violations of Academic Integrity

University policy regarding student violations including plagiarism, self-plagiarism, cheating on examinations, multiple submissions of the same work, forgery, sabotage of another’s work, unauthorized collaboration, falsification, bribery, theft, damage, or misuses of library or computer resources.

• Ph.D. Student Manual
• Forms
• Course Offerings
• Previous Comprehensive Exams
• Listservs
• Current Ph.D. Students
• Ph.D. Program Graduates
• UAlbany Student Employment Opportunities 

How to Succeed in Graduate School

• Graduate Student Bulletin
• ITLAL (Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership)
• "How to Succeed in Graduate School" by Marie desJardins. Part I and Part II
• Doctoral Student Issues by Decision Sciences Institute

How to Do Good Research

• How to Build an Economic Model in your Spare Time by Hal Varian. Focuses on economics but much of the advice is more generally applicable. (Part of a collection titled "Passion and Craft: Economists at Work," edited by Michael Szenberg, University of Michigan Press, 1997.)
• ITLAL (Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership)
• How to Work a Scientific Conference by Paul Recchia. Focuses on how to "manage" a scientific conference and do networking.

How to Write a Dissertation

• UAlbany Office of Graduate Studies General Regulations Governing the Submission of a Dissertation
• All But Dissertation (ABD) - The All-But-Dissertation Survival Guide™ To receive the free e-mail newsletter, subscribe at http://www.abdsurvivalguide.com
• Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation
• Writing Your Dissertation

What They Don't Teach You in Graduate School

• Part I. Understanding the meaning of a PhD, finishing the dissertation, and hunting for your first academic job
• Part II. Teaching and service, research, and grantsmanship
• Part III. Tenure, academic rank, and department chairs

INF PhD Program Academic Probation

Students in the Ph.D. Program will be placed on Academic Probation if they:

1. do not have an approved and signed Program Plan by the end of the first year; OR
2. have a grade of "I" in any course that has not been cleared within one year; OR
3. have failed the General Comprehensive Exam once

Conditions (1) and (2) would be suspended (i.e., the "clock" would stop) for students on a Leave of Absence.

Students will be notified by letter from the Program Director or Department Chair that they have been placed on Academic Probation. Students may appeal to the Ph.D. Faculty and then the Department.

Removal of probation is the responsibility of the student, whose advisor must notify the Director in writing as appropriate to the condition of probation. The Director will inform the Ph.D. Faculty at its next meeting of successful resolution, and the student will be notified in writing of formal removal of probation.