Each new student will be assigned an academic advisor on entering the PhD program. When the student successfully completes the comprehensive examination, a Thesis Advisory Committee will be appointed. The Advisory Committee consists of three faculty members competent to supervise work in the student's specific area of research. The Chief Supervisor will be a permanent faculty member who has been approved as a supervisor in library and information science by the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, but Advisory Committee Members may be any faculty member of the University or, with the permission of the Dean of Graduate Studies, from outside the University.
It is the responsibility of the Associate Dean to decide when the candidate's Advisory Committee is to be chosen and who its members shall be. In selecting members of the Advisory Committee, the Associate Dean takes account of the following factors: (1) the student's preferences for advisors (at least one member of the Committee should be a person suggested by the student); (2) the closeness of a potential member's expertise to the student's research interest; (3) the amount of PhD supervision already undertaken by a potential member; (4) the desirability of having a member on the Committee from outside the library and information science doctoral program. After being informed of the selection, and within a period of time to be specified by the doctoral advisory committee, the student may object to the members chosen for her or his Advisory Committee.
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