• Plan of Study for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
• Please fill out entire form, including name of all advisors
• Email completed form to Dr. Louise Reagan louise.reagan@uconn.edu and CC Caitlin caitlin.dorrington@uconn.edu
• Caitlin will contact advisors for signatures/approvals and submit to Grad School cc’ing student and maintain a copy at the School of Nursing
  • Please include advisors email addresses in the body of the email if outside of UConn
• Plan of Study should be updated when courses are revised.
• A new Plan of Study is not needed with advisory committee changes, but Registrar does need documentation of the advisory committee changes.
  • Student should email both advisors, be sure to copy Jenn Horan jenn.horan@uconn.edu outlining the changes and ask them to reply all with their confirmation of the change.

• Report on the General Examination for the Doctoral Degree
• Please fill out entire form, including name of all advisors
• Email completed form to Dr. Louise Reagan louise.reagan@uconn.edu and CC Caitlin caitlin.dorrington@uconn.edu
• Caitlin will contact advisors for signatures/approvals and submit to Grad School cc’ing student and maintain a copy at the School of Nursing
  • Please include advisors email addresses in the body of the email if outside of UConn

• Dissertation Proposal for Doctoral Degree
• Please fill out entire form, including name of all advisors
• Please email completed form to Dr. Louise Reagan louise.reagan@uconn.edu and CC Caitlin caitlin.dorrington@uconn.edu
• Caitlin will contact advisors for signatures/approvals and submit to Grad School cc’ing student and maintain a copy at the School of Nursing
  • Please include advisors email addresses in the body of the email if outside of UConn

• Complete Degree Audit Kuali form and follow directions to complete
  • Kuali webform that is routed to your committee after the dissertation defense for their approvals.
• After the final committee member has approved the page, it will be routed to jenn.horan@uconn.edu
• Do not submit a hard copy approval page or email with approvals
• If you have external committee members, they will be instructed to email their approval to degreeaudit@uconn.edu which will be forwarded to me

Dissertation & Approval Page Information

• Both the dissertation and dissertation approval page will remain 'in-progress' until they are reviewed and accepted by Jenn Horan at the Registrar Office
• Email confirmation is sent to students from Submittable when the dissertation is uploaded
• Email confirmation is sent to students from Kuali when the dissertation approval page is initiated
• Emails are sent from Kuali as each advisor submits an approval for the dissertation defense
• When the dissertation and approval page have been reviewed and accepted, emails from Submittable and Kuali will be received
• External advisors only approve the defense via email, their approval will not be reflected on the Kuali approval page
• External advisors receive an email to the email address provided on the dissertation approval page, requesting they email their approval to degree audit
• When the graduation date is added to your record an email will be received
• Submissions are reviewed in the order they are received
• Degrees are not automatically posted on the graduation date. No part of the review process is automated, it takes time for all components to be reviewed
• **If your dissertation research includes human or animal subjects or stem cells, and the IRB, IACUC or SCRO have not been received by degree audit, the degree cannot be awarded.
• **If your dissertation proposal is reflected as 'in-progress' on your transcript, and you did not submit the research approval with your approved proposal form, email it to degreeaudit@uconn.edu

• If you are looking for instructions for submission, they can be found in step 8 of the Doctoral Degrees page and the doctoral dissertation users guide 
• Please send a copy to Caitlin caitlin.dorrington@uconn.edu so we can maintain a copy within the School of Nursing

• Change of Major Advisor
  • Major Advisor must be from SoN
  • Associate Advisors must be approved by Grad School
    • Faculty can find a list of Advisors approved by Graduate School in the UConn Nursing SharePoint: Documents-Faculty-PhD Program-Faculty Resources
    • If not on the approved list, this form must be submitted by a student's major advisor External Advisor Request Form
• A new Plan of Study is not needed with advisory committee changes, but Registrar does need documentation of the advisory committee changes.
  • Student should email both advisors, be sure to copy Jenn Horan jenn.horan@uconn.edu outlining the changes and ask them to reply all with their confirmation of the change.
• A Reader does not need Grad School approve but CV must be sent to Louise Reagan and CC Caitlin Dorrington to be filed