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  • 2025-26 Graduate Associate Leadership Award (GALA) nominations open

    Nominations for the Graduate Associate Leadership Award (GALA) will be accepted from Ohio State graduate faculty starting Sept. 8, 2025. Graduate students who have been actively engaged in leadership responsibilities on and/or off campus are eligible. Your faculty advisor or another graduate faculty member familiar with your leadership activities can nominate you. Award winners receive a certific...
  • 2025-26 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) is accepting nominations

    Nominations are now open for the 2025-2026 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA), Ohio State’s highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students serving as graduate teaching associates (GTAs). This is a one-time $2,000 award given out every spring. Exceptional GTAs can be nominated from now until Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 5 p.m. by any Ohio State student, staff or facu...
  • 2025-2026 Graduate School Handbook Changes – Poor Performance Policy

    The following represents an important change made to the Graduate School’s current Poor Performance policy.Specific Graduate School Handbook UpdatesIn Section 5.3, altered current policy to skip academic action (i.e., remediation or probation) during a summer term in which an eligible student is not enrolled in a course that impacts their cGPA (e.g., courses graded S/U).Old language“Poor Academic...
  • 2025-2026 Graduate School Handbook Changes to the Continuous Enrollment Policy

    The following represents an important change made to the Graduate School’s current Continuous Enrollment policy.Specific Graduate School Handbook UpdatesSections 3.1, 7.7, 7.18, and 11.2, have eliminated the requirement that post-candidacy doctoral students returning from a leave of absence retroactively enroll in, and pay for, each semester of missed enrollment. Instead, post-candidacy students ...
  • Autumn 2025 Important Graduation Dates & Deadlines

    DeadlinesRegular Semester Deadlines:September 12, 2025Applications to graduate submitted on Grad FormsNovember 26, 2025Final examinations completedReport on Final Exam form completed by committeeDecember 5, 2025Final document (if applicable) submitted to OhioLINK and accepted by the Graduate SchoolReport on Final Document form completed by committeeEnd of Semester (EOS) DeadlineJanuary 9, 20...

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