Student Forms
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Forms requiring a signature from the Assistant Dean for Student Success should be emailed to soeacademicservices@syr.edu.
List of Required Signatures for All Forms
All Students
Form Name and Link | Required Signatures | Additional Information |
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Add/Drop Form | Student → Academic/Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Paper Form: Available in the Office of Academic and Student Services or Registrar’s Office. Please refer to the academic calendar for deadlines, or see your advisor. |
Application for Readmission / Termination of Leave of Absence | Student → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Paper Form: Available in the Office of Academic and Student Services or Registrar’s Office. |
| For pass/fail in a letter graded course, letter grade in a pass/fail course, audit, change from audit to letter grade. | |
Student → Instructor → Assistant Dean for Student Success |
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Grade Appeal/Change (No Form) | Faculty → Assistant Dean for Student Success |
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Add Student to Blackboard (i.e., student not registered in class) | N/A | Faculty member emails Assistant Dean, then AD emails SOEHelp |
Student → Faculty Sponsor → Academic/Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | For experience credit. | |
Student → Academic/Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success **include a line for Instructor, if applicable | Consult with your academic advisor for the appropriate use of this form, as this form is used for multiple purposes. For flagging a Petition to Faculty (e.g., when a grade was not flagged during the automated process), use this form. | |
Petition to Walk (Early Participation in Commencement) | Student → Academic/Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Contact your academic advisor for details. |
Student → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Allow the release of academic or personal information to a third party (including family). | |
Student → Instructor → Academic/Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Withdraw from a class after the drop deadline has passed (but before the withdrawal deadline). Classes from which students withdraw remain on the transcript with the grading symbol WD. | |
Withdrawal from Program | Student → Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success
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Undergraduate Students
Form Name and Link | Required Signatures | Additional Information |
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Student → Academic Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Add or drop a major, or change majors within the School of Education. | |
| Declare minor, add an additional minor, or drop a previously declared minor. | |
Student → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Students should meet with an academic advisor regarding the Intra-University Transfer process. | |
Student → Academic/Faculty Advisor→ Assistant Dean for Student Success | To petition to take a course/transfer credits from another institution. To ensure appropriateness of the course, approval should be obtained BEFORE taking the course. Attach course description and/or syllabus and submit before course is taken. | |
Student → Academic/Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | To petition to take a course/transfer credits from another institution. To ensure appropriateness of the course, approval should be obtained BEFORE taking the course. Attach course description and/or syllabus and submit before course is taken. | |
Student → Academic/Faculty Advisor | Use to select first choice and alternate classes for registration advising and to get advising hold released. | |
Student → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Request that the Office of Academic and Student Services sponsor you for a tutor through Tutoring Matching Service. | |
Undergraduate Leave of Absence (No Form) | N/A | Undergraduate students must seek guidance with their home school/college and advisor to request a leave of absence. |
All Graduate Students
Form Name and Link | Required Signatures | Additional Information |
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Student → Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | For students registered for fewer than 9 credits, or who do not hold an appointment as a graduate assistant or fellow in a fall or spring semester, but are registered for at least zero credits for the semester and engaged, at a level equivalent to full-time study in one or more of the activities listed on the form, certified by the program. | |
Student → New Program Coordinator Assistant Dean for Student Success | To change graduate program majors. | |
Current Program Coordinator → New Program Coordinator → | To pursue more than one degree concurrently or presently completing a degree (or have completed on within the past 12 months) and wish to pursue another. | |
Student → Assistant Dean for Student Success | To take a semester/year leave of absence. Students requesting a medical leave must also work with the Dean of Students' office. |
Master’s Students
Form Name and Link | Required Signatures | Additional Information |
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Student → Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | List courses to be taken and/or used to earn your master’s degree. | |
Request for Master’s Thesis, Exam, or Portfolio Presentation | Student | Request your master’s thesis, exam, or portfolio presentation. |
Faculty/Staff | Report the results of a master's thesis, exam, or portfolio review as final project. |
CAS Students
Form Name and Link | Required Signatures | Additional Information |
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Student → Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | List courses to be taken and/or used to earn your CAS. | |
Student → Faculty Advisor | Apply for your qualifying exam. Send to soeacademicservices@syr.edu. |
Doctoral Students
Form Name and Link | Required Signatures | Additional Information |
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Student → Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Work with your faculty advisor to determine the details of your doctoral degree studies. | |
Student → Faculty Advisor → Faculty Director for Graduate Studies | List courses to be taken and/or used to earn your doctoral degree. | |
Student → Dissertation Advisor → Faculty Director of Graduate Studies | This petition is to be submitted by doctoral students who are at or beyond eight years since their term of matriculation. | |
Student → Doctoral Dissertation Advisor | Apply for your qualifying exam. Send to soeacademicservices@syr.edu. | |
Doctoral Request for Examination (Oral Dissertation Defense) | Student → Dissertation Advisor → Faculty Director of Graduate Studies | Send to degreecert@syr.edu. |
All But Dissertation (ABD) Status Form
| Student → Faculty Advisor → Assistant Dean for Student Success | Complete once you’ve passed your qualifying exams to have your ABD Status notated on your transcript. |
Faculty Advisor | Submit once you have completed your research apprenticeship. | |
Student → Faculty Advisor → Apprenticeship Advisor | Use this form to secure advanced agreement with your faculty advisor and faculty research apprenticeship sponsor for your research apprenticeship. |