Graduate Program Application

Overview

Completed graduate applications are received from two sources 1) The Office of International Students and Scholars and 2) The Graduate School. Currently, members of the graduate committee sequentially look at graduate applications (hardcopy) and make a recommendation on acceptance or rejection to the graduate director. The graduate director makes a recommendation to the graduate school, which then sends a letter to the applicant informing him or her of the decision.

We would like the following features:

• Users track an application's status on the web. Here, security is a major concern, for example, we do not want to give an applicant access to other applicants' data.

• Members of the graduate committee should be able to evaluate applications simultaneously. It may not be possible to eliminate hardcopy applications, but you need to give thought to whether this is possible in the future.

• Members of the graduate committee and the management staff should be able to view applicants' status.

• Faculty should be able to view a student's progress.

• The graduate committee should be able to add to the FAQ on the graduate program web page by sending email to a particular account (gradfaq@cs.unr.edu). That is, when we answer (by email) a question about our graduate program, sending a copy of this reply to gradfaq@cs.unr.edu should automatically add the question and answer to the graduate program's FAQ on the graduate program's web page.

• A student's advisor and the graduate director need to be notified if a student is not making progress or is in danger of being dismissed. This depends on the courses that the student is taking, his/her grades, and whether these are core courses.

• Information about the graduate program in the Dept. of Computer Science at UNR is at http://www.cs.unr.edu/grad/ . Consider the information there an appendix to this requirements specification.