Once a year the Graduate Committee meets to review the status
of every graduate student (M.Sc. or Ph.D.) registered in Computer Science. Prior to this meeting, a report is
prepared by each graduate student's supervisor outlining the progress of that
student towards his or her degree.
For Ph.D. students, it is also required that each student prepare a
summary of his/her progress during that year on their Ph.D. thesis
research. This information, along
with other indicators of the student's performance (i.e. marks in courses,
steps taken en route to thesis completion, etc.), is examined and a decision is
made on whether or not that student is making acceptable progress in the
graduate program. If a student so
chooses, he or she may write a short document outlining concerns he or she may
have, and this will be added to the information used by the Committee. This document will be kept
confidential, even from someone on the Committee, should the student so desire.
This checkpoint should be taken very seriously by both students
and faculty members, and every effort should be expended by students to
complete courses, and by faculty members to get all marking done, before this
meeting so that the student's record is as complete as possible.