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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 certificate, $2,000, and are invited to attend our Graduate School Annual Award Ceremony in spring term.

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 faculty member.

The following represents an important change made to the Graduate School’s current Poor Performance policy.

Specific Graduate School Handbook Updates

In 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).

The following represents an important change made to the Graduate School’s current Continuous Enrollment policy.

Deadlines

Regular Semester Deadlines:

September 12, 2025

Applications to graduate submitted on Grad Forms

November 26, 2025

Final examinations completed

Report on Final Exam form completed by committee

December 5, 2025

Final document (if applicable) submitted to OhioLINK and accepted by the Graduate School

The Graduate School's Strategic Training Grants (STG) team has established an initiative to provide financial support to faculty who are applying to extramural federal and private foundation training grant opportunities that support multiple graduate students and/or postdoctoral scholars. 

Note that this pre-award initiative is designed to support PIs who are in the proposal development and grant submission process and is not intended to provide post-award salary support for PIs of active training grants.

Summer 2025 graduates, we want to know about your experiences at Ohio State. Before you leave, please take the Ohio State Graduation Survey you received in your email. Your valuable feedback will help us enhance the student experience for future Buckeyes. Thank you and congratulations! Take the survey today on the Center for the Study of Student Life website.  Please contact cssl@osu.edu with any questions. The survey opens July 14, closes August 4

Moving in or out of the University District? From July 25–August 11, more than two dozen drop-off locations will be available to collect furniture, bagged trash, recyclables, and items for donation. These extra sites are part of the City of Columbus’ continued partnership with Ohio State and the University District Organization to help prevent illegal dumping and give students more sustainable options during move-out/move-in.

The window for Ohio State students to purchase their 2025-26 permit is open as of July 8, 2025. Permit eligibility for Graduate and Professional Students is divided into two categories: paid appointment and non-paid appointment status. Students with a university-paid appointment can purchase a B- or C-series permit.