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  • Disability Services final exam monitors needed for autumn term final weeks

    Student Life Disability Services (SLDS) is seeking professional or graduate students and staff volunteers to assist with seating students and room monitoring during final exams from Friday, Dec. 12, through Thursday, Dec. 18. Shifts are typically 1-2 hours, and you may sign up for as many as you'd like. Select shifts on the AU '25 Finals Volunteer Sign Up by Friday, Dec. 5.

  • 2025-26 Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award Webinar Workshop Series

    "One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination."

    – John C. Maxwell

    Come and join us for this year’s Graduate Faculty Mentorship Workshop Series. Learn from Ohio State’s own experts and this year’s GFMA winners about mentorship.

    This workshop series is open to:

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

  • 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 faculty member.

  • 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 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).

  • 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.

  • Autumn 2025 Important Graduation Dates & Deadlines

    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

  • Financial Support Initiative for Faculty Pursuing Graduate and Postdoc Training Grants

    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.

  • Graduate Recruitment, Admissions, and Retention Workshop Series

    Faculty and staff engaged in graduate recruitment and admissions are cordially invited to participate in a series of interactive workshops designed to share best practices and resources pertaining to graduate student recruitment, admissions, and retention.

  • Summer 2025 Graduation Survey Opens July 14

    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