7.3.2 Outstanding Thesis Award

(Approved January 27, 2021) (Amended July 26, 2023)

The Nominations Committee will recommend to the President that certain students be recognized for their outstanding thesis work as a part of earning their master’s degrees.

To be considered for the Outstanding Thesis award students must be nominated to the Academic Council by their cognizant academic unit. Academic units shall develop criteria to differentiate between acceptable theses and those which warrant such recognition and shall establish an internal committee for evaluating theses for nomination.

In any one academic year no more than 15 percent (or two students, whichever is larger) of the students earning a master's degree in the degree programs of the nominating academic unit shall be nominated for having completed an Outstanding Thesis.

The Registrar shall make appropriate notation of the award in the students’ academic records.