{"id":10140,"date":"2023-11-27T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:27:14","slug":"doctoral-deadlines-for-spring-2024-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-10140","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Deadlines for Spring 2024 Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Attention Doctoral students<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed the fog this morning! Happy almost December.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for Spring 2024 Graduation\u00a0was last Friday, November 24. While this is a slightly flexible deadline, forms should really be in by Friday this week, to avoid delays. We do find that potential examiners\u00a0are slower to reply as the winter break approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Please note, these are the deadlines for candidates who want to participate in the Spring Graduation ceremony. The dates for April 30, 2024 program completion are similar but not the same; they are a few days later in each case.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the other dates candidates need to meet are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>FRIDAY, 26 JANUARY 2024 \u2013 Doctoral dissertation (and supporting documentation) submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for external examination<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>FRIDAY, 22 MARCH\u00a02024\u00a0\u2013 Last Day for Final Doctoral Oral Examination<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>FRIDAY, 19 APRIL 2024\u00a0\u2013 Acceptance of final, approved doctoral dissertation by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Students will be able to choose to defend either in person or on Zoom. We will work with students to select the most appropriate mode for their defence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please distribute this email to any faculty or students you think may be interested.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Robyn<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robyn\u00a0Starkey<\/strong>\u00a0(Pronouns:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/equity.ubc.ca\/resources\/gender-diversity\/pronouns\/\">No Preference<\/a>)<br \/>\nDoctoral Exams Coordinator<br \/>\nOffice of the Dean\u00a0|\u00a0Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus\u00a0| Musqueam Traditional Territory<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia\u00a0170 \u2013 6371 Crescent Road\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z2 Canada<br \/>\nPhone 604 822 3989<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:robyn.starkey@ubc.ca\">robyn.starkey@ubc.ca |<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/\">grad.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UBC Vancouver campus is situated within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Doctoral students I hope you enjoyed the fog this morning! Happy almost December. The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for Spring 2024 Graduation\u00a0was last Friday, November 24. While this is a slightly flexible deadline, forms should really be in by Friday this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10141,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions\/10141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}