Semester Conversion

The Graduate School is working with the Office of Academic Affairs and other committees on graduate issues related to Ohio State's conversion to semesters in 2012.

Updates 

• 2012-2013 Graduate School Handbook, converted to semesters

The 2012-2013 Graduate School Handbook is now available for review by graduate program faculty and staff.  Please contact Assistant Dean Ann Salimbene with any questions.

• Graduate Associate Appointment Document (20 Dec 2011)
• Graduate Associate appointments and semesters (8 Mar 2012)
• Graduate associate and fellow stipend payment schedules during transitional period to semesters (14 Feb 2011; revised 28 Feb 2011)

• Note from the Registrar: Ohio residency status for students in the transition year to semesters (posted 22 Feb 2011)

"This issue has recently come to our attention, and will affect out-of-state students (and particularly graduate and professional students) who begin at OSU in 2011 and hope to establish Ohio residency in 2012, the first year of our transition to semesters.

"One implication of the change to semesters is in the residency status of students who, after one full year of living in Ohio and being self-sufficient (no money coming in from out of state), are eligible for Ohio residency (in-state tuition) per ORC 3333-1-10.  When we switch to semesters in 2012, the students who are returning for their second year who normally would have been eligible for Ohio residency may find themselves one month short of residence eligibility.  Those students who moved to Ohio in September 2011 will not be eligible in the Fall Semester of 2012 because it begins in August ­i.e. only eleven months (residency is determined by one’s status at the beginning of the term, not the end).

"If your programs advise out-of-state students that they may be eligible to become Ohio residents after one year (with the stipulations articulated in ORC 333-1-10), either for recruiting or informational purposes, you should be aware of this catch ­which will affect only continuing students who enter in Fall of 2011--and determine whether you want to advise such students to move to Ohio one month earlier than necessary, in August of 2011, in order to be eligible to petition for residency in Fall of 2012."

Graduate program staff with questions should contact Kelly Stockard.

For detailed information about semester conversion, contact the Office of Academic Affairs or contact Scott Herness, associate dean, (614) 292-9490.