Resources for students – psychological foundations/QME

PsyF/QME information

• General information
• PsyF/QME core area requirements

Handbooks

• Educational Psychology Graduate Student Handbook with graduate program information, policies, and core requirements to supplement the Graduate School Catalog.
• Graduate School Student Handbook and the Graduate School Catalog list regulations, requirements, procedures and many other details for the Graduate School at the University.
• The Graduate assistant employment web site lists policies and guidelines for graduate assistant employment. Graduate assistants are responsible for understanding these policies and procedures.  
• Faculty and TA handbook contains background, policies, procedures and support services information for instructors and teaching assistants.
• International Student Handbook has information to help you understand and adjust to life at the U of M and the U.S.

Forms

• Adviser Change Form [.pdf]
• Readmission / Change of Status

Checklists to be submitted with the degree program form

• PsyF
  • PsyF M.A. Core Course Area Requirements Checklist [.pdf]
  • PsyF Ph.D. Core Course Area Requirements Checklist [.pdf]
• QME
  • QME M.A. Core Course Area Requirements Checklist [.pdf]
  • QME Ph.D. Core Course Area Requirements Checklist [.pdf]

Planning/Progress Worksheets for meeting with adviser(s) each spring to submit for Annual Student Review

• PsyF
  • PsyF M.A. Planning/Progress Worksheet [.doc]
  • PsyF Ph.D. Planning/Progress Worksheet [.doc]
• QME
  • QME M.A. Planning/Progress Worksheet [.doc]
  • QME Ph.D. Planning/Progress Worksheet [.doc]

• Department forms
• Graduate School forms

Doctoral written specialty prelim study guides

General information

• PsyF/QME prelim information
• Prelim dates and registration deadlines
  • Prelim registration form [.pdf]
  • QME prelim paper form [.pdf]

Area of emphasis

• Learning & cognition/educational technology area
• Human development in education area
• Social psychology/human relations area
• Quantitative methods in education

Funding information

• PsyF/QME assistantships

Program directories

• Faculty
• Student [.pdf]

Human resources/Payroll

• Human resources self-service Web site to update personal information, view pay statements, view and update W-4s, view and print duplicate W-2s, and access online direct deposit.

Graduate program support for students of color

• Common Ground Consortium (CGC) supports advanced graduate work in education by students of culturally diverse backgrounds who are graduates of several Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
• Scholarships, including the Rodney S. Wallace Endowed Scholarship to support Native American students
• Graduate School Diversity Office

Helpful U of M links

• One Stop
• Graduate School
• Council of Graduate Students (COGS)
• Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
• Minnesota English Language Program (MELP)

October 2009