Dismissal Policy

Graduate students in the Agricultural History and Rural Studies Program may be dismissed for the following reasons:   

1. Failure to identify a major professor and committee of study within twelve months of admission.
              
2. Failure to file a Program of Study form within twelve months of admission.
              
3. Failure to maintain a B average.
              
4. Inability to meet program requirements in a timely manner.
              
5. Failure of the preliminary examinations twice.
              
6. Failure to complete the degree requirements in five years if entering the program with an MA degree or within seven years if entering the program with a BA degree.
              
7. The AHRS faculty will notify the student in writing of his or her deficiencies and meet to decide the disposition of its case.  The student will be notified in writing of the outcome.
              
8. Dismissals may be appealed to the AHRS program faculty through the program director who, meeting as a committee-of-the-whole, will hear and decide the matter.
              
9. The dismissal of part-time students will be determined by the program director in consultation with the program committee.