Through a system of academic advising, Jackson State University assists each graduate student in planning academic programs, understanding satisfactory academic progress, retention and graduation requirements. Graduate advisors prepare students for making decisions affecting successful educational growth and development. “CyberAdvising” resources are available to assist becoming completely familiar with the graduate education policies and regulations of the University.
Master’s Students
- The Successful Master-level Student – Orientation Packet
- Guidelines for the Completion of a Masters’ Degree
- Guidelines for Preparing Masters’ Thesis, 2008
- Guidelines for Preparing Masters’ Projects, 2008
Specialist Students
- The Successful Specialist Student – Orientation Packet
- Guidelines for Submission of a Specialist Thesis, 2008
Doctoral Students
- The Successful Doctoral Student – Orientation Packet
- Guidelines for the Completion of the Doctorate
- Guidelines for Preparing the Doctoral Dissertation, 2008
“The Successful Graduate Student” Series
Community of Scholars Research Lecture Series
“Responsible Conduct of Research” Series
- What is Research Compliance? Why do we do it? Consequences of Non-Compliance.
- Transforming the Dissertation into Journal Articles
- Ethical Policy in Scientific Research
- Preventing Misconduct in Sciences
- Additional information
- JSU Policy on “Conflict of Interest”
- CITI Login and Registration Page
- There are three levels of certification-students, researchers, and IRB Members.
- All faculty will need to use the courses for researchers.
- The IRB has changed their application to require this training.
- Users will have to pass the tests at 75% or they will have to retake them.
“The Effective Graduate Advisor” Series
- Graduate Faculty Guide
- Best Practices for Graduate Admissions
- Best Practices for Mentoring Graduate Students
- Best Practices for Mentoring Graduate Students (slides)
- Policies, Processes & Web Guide, 2008 (slides)
- Best Practices for the Graduate Area Comprehensive Examination
Examination Applications
- Graduate English Competency Examination, (typeable)
- Graduate English Competency Examination, (pdf)
- Graduate Area Comprehensive Examination, (pdf)
- Graduate Area Comprehensive Examination, (typeable)