{"id":2188,"date":"2018-10-30T05:07:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/?page_id=2188"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:18:34","slug":"graduate-advisor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/graduate-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:30px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each degree-seeking and conditionally admitted graduate student will be assigned a graduate advisor upon admission. Prior to the initial registration each student must work with the advisor to establish a program of study, approved in the first semester, signed by the department\/program director and filed in the Graduate Office. Failure to receive prior approval for courses may result in those courses not counting toward the graduate degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduate Committees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If required in the approved program of study, the advisor will help the graduate student establish a graduate committee as soon as reasonably possible. The student will select a graduate committee of a minimum of three MoWest graduate faculty, one serving as committee chair. The student may add up to two additional committee members, including one member who is not a MoWest graduate faculty but who have substantial knowledge of the student\u2019s program of study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Approval of committee membership is required by the department\/ program director and Graduate Vice Provost. The committee is responsible for formal approval of the proposed scholarly work as required by the program. All signed original forms, including program of study and approved scholarly work, must be filed in the Graduate Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2188\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}