Important news from Harvard
I just received the following email:Dear Faculty and GSAS Students:
GSAS has decided to follow the example of University Microfilms (UMI) and refer to the PhD as a dissertation rather than a thesis. A dissertation is written by a PhD candidate while a thesis is written by a master's candidate. This change will be official as of the beginning of the 2005-06 academic year. We will incorporate the change into the GSAS Handbook, the Program Description Guides, The Form of the Doctoral Thesis (new title: The Form of the PhD Dissertation) and the Thesis Acceptance Certificate (changed to Dissertation). We are recommending that programs who have Thesis Advisory Committees change these to Dissertation Advisory Committees. Dissertation more accurately describes the work a student does to complete the requirements of the PhD degree.
My response?
Thank you Harvard, for that waste of electricity and computer power required for the transmission and receipt of this email, for the waste of my time required to read this email, and for the prospective waste of trees making new forms and writing memos on this matter.
Looks like I don't have to worry about my TAC anymore. DACs are much less scary.
posted by Immunegirl @ 2:31 PM
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Doofuses.
I particularly enjoy that they felt the need to tell us which forms and committees would be changing names and to point out what the new names would be. 'Cause we couldn't figure that one out.
I was trying to ignore that. Maybe they didn't really go to Harvard, they just work there. And, you know, not everyone can be a Harvard grad.
*snicker*
How bizarre. Usually the administrative bureaucracy of gradual schools in major universities try their level best not to send out frivolous e-mails or kill trees with the unnecessary profusion of paperwork.
So now that it is a DAC instead of a TAC will you be using a different font?
Hmmm. This is a good point. Ever since I changed around the color of my links I have been interested in playing with that stuff.
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