Mental/Emotional Support Resources
Counseling Center Emergency Visit (During Business Hours)
Resources for Securing Your Safety
University of Maryland Police - (301) 405-3333
Incident Reporting and Support
This guide aids University of Maryland Graduate Students in understanding their options and the process for reporting harassment, discrimination, and other concerns that may arise. Please navigate the situation options below for UMD-specific guidance and resources available.
If you have been the target of bias (or have witnessed an incident), please report the incident on this Hate-Bias Form.
Red Folder
The Red Folder Initiative at the Graduate School
Assisting Students in Distress.
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Guidelines for Assessment Criteria
The following are guidelines for assessment plans and criteria that might be used by individual doctoral programs.
Remote Defense Request
This page contains important information related to the remote defense requests for graduate students defending their final oral thesis or dissertation.
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Request for Electronic Report of Examining Committee
Updated June 2023
For dissertation and thesis defenses that will take place after 5/30/2023, a separate REC request to the Graduate School is no longer required. If you have already submitted a REC request to the Graduate School for a defense that is scheduled after 5/30/3023, the REC form will be sent out by the Office of Registrar three business days prior to the defense date that was indicated on the request.
Assessement Deadlines
Graduate Learning Outcomes Assessment (GLOA) reports for doctoral programs will be due every three years, starting in the 2022-2023 academic year. Doctoral programs within each College/School will be divided into 2-3 assessment groups. This figure summarizes the GLOA assessment cycle across four years.
DGS Orientation
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
1:00-3:00pm
Maryland Room (0111 Marie Mount Hall)
Developing Your Assessment Approach
Now that you understand the important differences between benchmarking and assessment, the guiding questions below can help your graduate faculty structure their initial conversations about the Graduate Learning Outcomes Assessment (GLOA) process. To facilitate these initial conversations, programs should consider their core learning competencies.