1. DESCRIPTION OF CHANGE:

The Office of Graduate Studies has been tasked to review and update Graduate Studies policies and regulations and then create a Graduate Catalogue. The Office of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Council worked together as a team to complete the project. Please see the attached “2016-2017 KSU Graduate Catalogue_12-02-2016” clean copy of the Graduate Catalogue approved by the Graduate Council. The document is in Microsoft Word format to make it easy for comments.

The substantive changes made are in the basic requirements for admission into the graduate studies and programs. See the specific changes under items 3 and 4 below.

Other changes are primarily editorial to reformat, for parsimony and ease of reading, as well as to update some Catalogue content, such as:

• changing the number of graduate programs that KSU offers from seven to eight, with the establishment of the Doctoral of Nursing Practice.
• removing references to Deans, since the positions no longer exist.

2. STARTING WITH: (Excluding exceptional circumstances proposals will take effect Fall of the following year).

_ Fall, _ X_ Spring, _ Summer, 2017 Year

3. CURRENT POLICY: (Please See Current Catalogue, Faculty Handbook...)

Graduate Admissions – see pages 153-154 of “Marked Up” document. Text color-coded red with strike-through mark.

FS Meeting Notice 12/12/16