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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">Hello SSHA Graduate Students,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Happy New Year!
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">If you have not enrolled in 12 units for spring 2023 semester, please do so as soon as possible. All full-time graduate students must
be enrolled in 12 units. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">To request independent study courses, submit the electronic independent study request
<a href="https://registrar.ucmerced.edu/forms"><span style="color:#0563C1">form</span></a> on the Office of the Registrar’s website. Once the instructor of record approves the request, register using the CRN sent to you via email from the Office of the Registrar.
You will not be automatically enrolled, you need to register for the course via your student portal.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">All graduate students should read and be familiar with their graduate program’s
<a href="https://ssha-grad.ucmerced.edu/graduate-programs"><span style="color:#0563C1">Policies and Procedures</span></a> and Graduate Division’s Policies and Procedures. Failure to utilize these resources and ask questions of the SSHA Graduate Services Coordinators
may impede achieving milestones towards progress to degree and miss critical deadlines.
</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">To prepare for a successful semester, we recommend the following:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Check your UC Merced email <i>frequently</i></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#242424;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Check in with regularly your <a href="https://ssha-grad.ucmerced.edu/progress-degree/maintaining-productive-relationship-your-advisor-and-committee"><span style="color:#0563C1">faculty graduate
advisor</span></a> regarding matters such as your academic progress, research, plans for examinations during the fall semester and graduation plans..</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#242424;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Visit the <a href="https://ssha-grad.ucmerced.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">SSHA Graduate Services</span></a> website for information and resources</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">For Spring 2023 semester, if you plan to:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Withdraw from the university</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, please submit the
<a href="https://registrar.ucmerced.edu/forms"><span style="color:#0563C1">Leaving UC Merced</span></a> form on the Office of the Registrar’s website. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#242424;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Take an <b><u>Educational Leave</u></b>, submit the
<a href="https://registrar.ucmerced.edu/forms"><span style="color:#0563C1">Leaving UC Merced</span></a> form on the Office of the Registrar’s website</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#242424;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Be <b>In Absentia</b>, please submit the
<a href="https://graduatedivision.ucmerced.edu/faculty-staff-resources/forms-publications">
<span style="color:#0563C1">In Absentia</span></a> form found on Graduate Division’s website</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Office of the Registrar
<a href="https://registrar.ucmerced.edu/schedules/deadlines">deadlines</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Graduate Division
<a href="https://graduatedivision.ucmerced.edu/current-students/calendar-and-deadlines">
deadlines</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">Graduate Division:</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#6264A7"><a href="file:///C:/Users/mgarcia379/Desktop/graduate_policies_and_procedures_handbook_approved_5.9.22.pdf"><span style="color:#0563C1">Graduate
Division Policies and Procedures Handbook AY 22-23</span></a></span></u><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">**If you plan to take your Qualifying Examination for the Ph.D. the </span></i><i><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#6264A7"><a href="file:///C:/Users/mgarcia379/Desktop/application_for_qualifying_examination_0.pdf"><span style="color:#0563C1">Application
for the Qualifying Examination </span></a></span></u></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">must be submitted a <u>minimum of thirty
<b>(30) days before</b></u> the exam date.</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Graduate students should not take their Qualifying Examinations without the approval
of the Graduate Division</span></u></i></b><i><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">.<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">The
<a href="https://graduatedivision.ucmerced.edu/faculty-staff-resources/forms-publications">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Qualifying Examination Report</span></a> must be submitted to Graduate Division
<b>within thirty (30) days of the examination</b>.</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">***<i>If you are graduating in spring 2023 with an MA or MS, you must be advanced to candidacy.</i></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">****If you are graduating in spring 2023 review the degree checklists <a href="file:///C:/Users/mgarcia379/Desktop/IH%20Forms/masters_checklist_for_completion_1_0.pdf"><span style="color:#0563C1">MA</span></a> and <a href="file:///C:/Users/mgarcia379/Desktop/IH%20Forms/phd_checklist_for_completion._1_1.pdf"><span style="color:#0563C1">Ph.D.</span></a> and
note all deadlines</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#242424">Please feel free to reach out to SSHA Graduate Services at <a href="mailto:ssha.grad@ucmerced.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">ssha.grad@ucmerced.edu</span></a> for
questions or assistance. We are here to support you!</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase">Monica I. Garcia, Ph.D.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://ssha-grad.ucmerced.edu/"><span style="color:blue">https://ssha-grad.ucmerced.edu/</span></a>
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