Project Committee

One requirement of the project seminar is that you select a minimum of three faculty members to serve as your project committee. One member of the project committee may be from outside the school. One member of the committee should be either your adviser or a faculty member skilled in the subject matter of the project. If you desire, more than three members may serve on the project committee. At least two members of the committee must be members of the graduate faculty. The chair of the committee must be a graduate faculty member. The project committee should include a member who is an expert in the scholarly literature reflected in the literature review. If you are doing research rather than a professional analysis, one member of your committee should also be expert in the methodology used in the research component.

Every committee for a professional project involving work in one of the school‘s newsrooms must include an appropriate faculty member assigned to the newsroom. Every committee for a project pursued in Washington must include the Washington program director. Every committee for a project pursued in Jefferson City must include the tate government reporting program director.

The project committee is responsible for advising you in preparing your project proposal. At the conclusion of the project, the committee will conduct an oral examination to assess your professional growth and achievements in graduate school and, in particular, during the professional project. Approval by a majority of the committee members is necessary for graduation. The committee may require additional work. It is your responsibility to schedule the time and to reserve a room for the oral examination.

After a project has been approved and work begun, a member of your professional project committee may be replaced only if the associate dean for graduate studies determines that the member is unable to serve or if both the associate dean and the committee member approve the replacement. Addition of a new committee member requires approval of both the associate dean and your project committee.