{"id":9793,"date":"2023-08-21T12:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T19:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9793"},"modified":"2023-08-21T12:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T19:27:50","slug":"doctoral-deadlines-for-december-31-program-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9793","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Deadlines for December 31 Program Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Attention Ph.D. students:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for December 31, 2023 Program Completion\u00a0was last Friday, August\u00a018. While this is a slightly flexible deadline, forms should really be in by Friday this week, to avoid delays.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A couple of notes for you &#8211; the forms were recently updated, and there was a slight glitch in the PDF of the form, which has now been corrected. If you are having issues, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/forms\/nominations-external-examiner-doctoral-dissertation-form\">please download the form again to the newest version<\/a>. Second, we&#8217;ve had quite a few forms with errors, so <strong>please check the information carefully <\/strong>before sending, so that we can move forward without delay.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the other <strong>dates candidates need to meet<\/strong> are as follows:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY, 13\u00a0OCTOBER\u00a02023 \u2013 Doctoral dissertation (and supporting documentation) submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for external examination<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY,\u00a015 DECEMBER, 2023 \u2013 Last Day for Final Doctoral Oral Examination<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 2024\u00a0\u2013 Acceptance of final, approved doctoral dissertation by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<\/strong><\/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>Please distribute this email to any faculty or students you think may be interested.<\/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\u0259m (Musqueam).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Ph.D. students: The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for December 31, 2023 Program Completion\u00a0was last Friday, August\u00a018. While this is a slightly flexible deadline, forms should really be in by Friday this week, to avoid delays.\u00a0 A couple of notes for you&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-9793","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\/9793","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=9793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9794,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793\/revisions\/9794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}