- View the Progressing through the PhD: The Four Year, Full-time plan (.pdf).
- View the Progressing through the PhD: The Four Year, Part-time plan (.pdf).
- Read Checklist for Proposal/Comprehensive Examination (DP/CE) (.pdf).
- Read the Dissertation Checklist (.pdf).
Language, Culture and Teaching
- Read the Graduate Supervision Handbook (pdf) from FGS. This handbook endeavours to support graduate supervisors with practical guidance, relational strategies, and thoughtful tools and policies to cultivate respectful, collaborative, and enriching supervision experiences.
- View the YorkU Discussion Topics to Inform Productive Supervisory Relationships (.pdf) that aim to provide clarity on supervisory expectations for both graduate students and supervisors.
- Read the YorkU The Strong Start to Supervision Checklist (.pdf) from the Faculty of Graduate Studies. The aim of the checklist is to facilitate a strong start to the supervisory relationship through clarification and discussion.
Faculty of Graduate Studies Forms
- Academic Affairs Forms - These include academic honesty, curriculum development, graduate faculty membership, intellectual property, teaching awards and conflict of interest disclosure.
- Student Affairs Forms - These include convocation, enrolment, registration, petitions, appeals, visiting graduate students and program change requests.
- Thesis and Dissertation Forms - These include supervision, technical requirements, research ethics, copyright, external examiners, delay of publication and reimbursement of production costs.
- Student Finances Forms - These include financial assistance, research opportunities and scholarships and awards.
- Meeting Agenda Template (.docx). Share and use the template with graduate students.
- Meeting Notes Template (.docx). Share and use the template with graduate students.
- Read the YorkU Graduate Supervision Guidelines (.pdf). This document describes the responsibilities of supervisors, committee members and students. They are designed to support an environment in which a professional working relationship can flourish.
- Read Principles for Graduate Supervision at Ontario's Universities (.pdf). Endorsed by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University and created by the Council of Ontario Universities. This document describes the set of guiding principles for the supervision of students in graduate research-based programs. The document is also available in French (.pdf).