Art Education
College of Arts and Architecture
School of Visual Arts
The Two-Week Rule
Faculty must be given a minimum of two weeks to read any material submitted to them by students and to make responses. This means ALL material — exams, theses, proposals, drafts, and notes and papers. Also, all requests for recommendations, letters, and forms must be made two weeks in advance. In planning your schedules, you should keep in mind that for drafts of proposals and theses, a two-week period is required for each reading and that this usually means the process of refining a draft for final approval takes several months. The only exception to the two-week rule is work completed for a class, which is structured by the instructor's course requirements and deadlines.
Supervision of Independent Study
For all work done in art education under an independent study number (A Ed 495, 496, 595, 600, 601, 610, and 611), an independent study form, obtained from the office staff, MUST be filled out each semester and signed by the faculty member with whom you wish to work independently. This form is to be kept on file by the office staff. If you plan to continue independent study work from one semester to the next, you need to file a new independent study form.
The volume of work faculty are experiencing and the number of requests for exceptions make it necessary for us to remind you of these policies. Please do not ask for an exception to the two-week rule. Independent study requires faculty supervision; we must be able to account for these course numbers and the work completed under them.
Graduate Student Responsiblities
Doctoral and master's degree students will be responsible for arranging their meetings and examinations (candidacies, proposal meetings, working committee meetings, oral comprehensive exams, and final defense). Students should only schedule such meetings after consultation with their committee chair. Students will be responsible for contacting all of their committee members in order to schedule a meeting or examination.
Graduate students must notify the Art Education Office of the dates, times, and locations of their Candidacy Examination, Oral Comprehensive Exam, and their Final Defense at least three weeks before they are scheduled to occur. The Graduate School must be notified three weeks in advance of the scheduled date to complete the paperwork necessary for the meeting.
Graduate students should be aware that faculty are very busy, particularly at the end of each semester. When scheduling these meetings or examinations, students are advised not to wait until the last minute but to make arrangements with all of their committee members well in advance of the anticipated date of the meeting or examination. Meeting or examination rooms like 210B Patterson must also be reserved in advance to avoid any potential confusion or conflicts with other School of Visual Arts functions. To make these reservations, please contact Charolette Waltz (814-865-6570)
Office Equipment
The office copier may be used to make copies for courses you are teaching. For example,
- Course syllabi
- Course assignments prepared by instructors
- A page or so of written or visual material needed for class discussion
- One copy of printed/published material that you want your students to borrow and copy at their own expense. (It's best to place these copies in the Learning Centers as a course reading packet.)
Instructors who need copies made for the classes they are teaching must use a work order request form (available in the A ED Office) and give the Art Education Office Staff at least 48 hours notice. Personal copies such as course readings, dissertation materials, or research materials are to be done outside the office by graduate students at their own expense. The fax machine in the Art Education Office is to be used for University business only. Personal faxes must be authorized by the professor in charge of the program. For budget records, a cover sheet must be completed for each fax sent.