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V.7 Maternity/Childcare Benefits
The department is committed to facilitating communication and cooperation between student and advisor, and the good-faith efforts of both to accommodate the arrival of a new child in the home by birth, adoption, or foster placement, or the care of a child with...
V.8 Exit Survey
The Department is continually looking for ways to improve the graduate student experience. As part of these efforts, all graduate students separating from the University may be asked to complete a short exit survey to gain insight into the strengths of the pro...
V.9 Access to Student Files
The Department keeps a file on every graduate student that includes such paperwork as transcripts, application materials, annual evaluations, and Graduate Division forms and petitions that have been filed. Graduate students have a right to examine their studen...
V.10 Instructional Funding
The Department has set limits on the total number of years graduate students can be funded through instructional support. Instructional support includes funding in any combination of the following titles: teaching assistant, teaching associate, reader, and tut...
V.11 Procedures for Relinquishing a TA Position
Opportunities often arise that give graduate students a chance to work as Research Assistants on grants, receive their own grants, obtain fellowships, or have other professional positions. These opportunities frequently require that grads be removed from the T...
V.12 Department Resource Policies
V.12.1 Mailboxes Located in room 4108 in the Department of Communication, mailboxes are assigned to each student upon entrance into the Graduate program. V.12.2 Copy machines The Department’s copy machine is located in room 4118. The copy machine costs are b...
V.13 Rights and Responsibilities
A series of campus regulations address the rights and responsibilities of members of the University community and provide campus-wide standards for implementing regulations as a means of sustaining this community. These can be found on the Graduate Division we...
V.14 Mandatory Annual Sexual Harassment Training
Each academic year, all graduate students are required to complete the online Sexual Violence/Sexual Harassment prevention training. Each graduate student will receive an email notifying them of the required sexual harassment training, and in that email, a lin...
VI. Appendices
VI.1 APPENDIX 1 - Department of Communication Administrative Structure
Below is a brief description of each position’s responsibilities, but in all cases the Graduate Director, the Student Affairs Manager, and your own advisor are best prepared to address substantive issues related to your graduate career. The Department Chair is...
VI.2 APPENDIX 2 – Department Offices & Meet Spaces – Social Sciences and Media Studies (SSMS)
Graduate student offices are assigned on a yearly basis, determined by the type of funding and responsibilities a graduate student has for the year with assistance and oversight by two graduate students selected by the GSA. Graduate students typically share of...
VI.3 APPENDIX 3 - University Resources
Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) Disabled Students Program Graduate Division Graduate Student Resource Center Career Services Office of the Ombuds Student Health Service These are just some of the resources available to graduate students at UCSB. F...
VI.4 APPENDIX 4 - Glossary of Key Terms
Below is a glossary of key terms used throughout this handbook. 199RA The course number used for undergraduates who serve as research assistants to faculty or graduate student in exchange for course credit. To be eligible to enroll in COMM 199RA, students must...
VI.5 APPENDIX 5 - Standards for Faculty/Graduate Student Relationships
VI.5.1 Overview The purpose of this document is to specify our departmental standards of behavior for faculty and graduate student relationships. We recognize such relationships are only one facet of departmental climate, but in many ways they are fundamental...