[Updated 16 March 2020; this content will be updated as needed]
As Clemson University continues to respond to the emerging coronavirus situation, the Graduate School offers these tips to May 2020 graduation candidates to help you maintain continuity and keep on schedule.
Graduate School policy permits defenses by teleconference, as long as participation is synchronous. That is, the candidate and all committee members must participate in real time. Videorecording a defense for one or more committee members to view later is not permitted. While the Graduate School is not equipped to coordinate your remote defense, you and your committee members can find apps and assistance for setting up a teleconferenced defense here:
The Grad School’s GS7M — Final Exam and Master’s Thesis Approval Form and GS7D — Doctoral Dissertation Defense and Approval Form have been updated to facilitate an all digital workflow and submission.
These PDF forms permit digital signatures and feature a “submit” button for forwarding the form to the Registrar. Instructions have been added for making full use of the interactive form features:
Your Thesis or Dissertation submission process for both format review and publication is done online. The Reviewer will work remotely and will, as usual, correspond with you via ProQuest’s email system (sender “ETD Administrator”) to help you stay on track in case of office closures.