{"id":93701,"date":"2024-04-19T11:14:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=93701"},"modified":"2024-05-28T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T13:01:45","slug":"part-time-phd-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/part-time-phd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Part-Time PhD Students Who Are Employed Outside of Boston University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Effective April 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the rare conditions, where we do permit admission of part-time PhD students, the following rules should apply:<\/p>\n<p>i. Deans (or their designate) will review and approve requests for part-time PhD enrollment, and requests must be made on behalf of students by the given PhD program;<\/p>\n<p>ii. Requests approved by school\/college deans must be reviewed and approved by the Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs;<\/p>\n<p>iii. Requests for part-time PhD enrollment must provide a cogent justification, explaining why part-time enrollment is appropriate for the given student, a detailed timeline with appropriate milestones for the part-time status to continue, and how part-time enrollment will not harm the culture or character or completion of the PhD program;<\/p>\n<p>iv. Students enrolled in PhD programs part-time during the period in which a student is pre-dissertation status need to take a lower course load, however defined by their program, than that expected of full-time students;<\/p>\n<p>v. Part-time students doing dissertation research and writing must be registered for continuing study (part\/certified full in the technical parlance) and are responsible for continuing study fees;<\/p>\n<p>vi. Part-time PhD students will not receive stipend support, tuition remission, or health insurance or fee coverage from Boston University (including through federal grants received by BU principal investigators);<\/p>\n<p>vii. Students near completion of their dissertations may, with approval as outlined above, be part-time for up to two terms, if they are not receiving stipend support;<\/p>\n<p>viii. Students may be part-time during the first year after the birth of a child or the adoption of a child; however, (vi) above will apply;<\/p>\n<p>ix. Student dissertation research must be consistent with existing policy on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/dissertation-work-outside-of-boston-university\/\">Dissertation Work Outside of Boston University<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>x. Student dissertation research must be consistent with academic norms of academic freedom, openness, and transparency;<\/p>\n<p>xi. Enrolled part-time PhD students on the Charles River Campus will count against a program\u2019s PhD slot allocation;<\/p>\n<p>xii. This policy is not intended to prohibit or restrict program- and advisor-approved internships or other relationships consistent with a student\u2019s professional development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective April 2024 In the rare conditions, where we do permit admission of part-time PhD students, the following rules should apply: i. Deans (or their designate) will review and approve requests for part-time PhD enrollment, and requests must be made on behalf of students by the given PhD program; ii. Requests approved by school\/college deans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":0,"parent":36244,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93701"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96074,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93701\/revisions\/96074"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}