Dear Cohort of 2014 Students,
Hello everyone! I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Please see the below the important deadline.
Preliminary Review- Submission Deadline is May 22
As you approach the end of the semester, I wanted to make you all aware of the upcoming Preliminary Review process. The Preliminary Review is a requirement for all doctoral students at the University of Southern California. For Ed.D. students, this review will take place in May. The Preliminary Review is designed to ensure that students have the capability to meet the expectations of the program and complete the degree.
In order to prepare for the Preliminary Review, we need all students who have completed the core courses to take the following steps:
- Obtain copies of your final paper for 523, 524, 525, and 532. If your final project did not include a paper, please submit the most extensive paper for the course. These papers should have instructor feedback on them. If you did not receive a paper with feedback from your instructor, we will accept a copy of the final paper you submitted to your instructor. If your Fall 2014 instructor did not return a final paper with feedback, please follow up with him or her to obtain a copy.
- If instructor feedback was not made via the “track changes” feature on Microsoft Word and instead done by hand, we will need you to scan your paper to submit it.
- Create an Adobe Acrobat PDF file for each of your four papers. After creating a PDF file of your four term papers, combine them into one PDF file (if you have this option available on your Adobe reader).
- Attach the PDF file(s) to an email and send it to rsoeedd@rossier.usc.edu no later than May 22, 2015 at 5:00 PM. Please include “[Your last name] Preliminary Review Document” in the subject line. If for any reason you cannot access the functions above (a scanner, full access to Adobe Acrobat), please combine your papers into one Word document. Please avoid sending multiple emails-- make sure to submit all of your papers in one email.
Passing the preliminary review is a requirement to continue in the Ed.D. program.
Please remember to send the Preliminary Review documents to rsoeedd@rossier.usc.edu and contact me directly if you have any questions. I will certainly be sending reminders as the deadline approaches, but just wanted to make sure you were all aware of the upcoming process.
Thank you and have a great rest of your week!
Best Regards,
Katy Lin
Cohort of 2014 Advisor
Katylin@usc.edu