{"id":3914,"date":"2026-07-15T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/?page_id=3914"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:55:58","slug":"policies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Graduate Expedited Admissions Policy<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/accelerated-graduate-admissions-policy\/\">Policy and List of Opt-In Programs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Policies Approved by the Graduate Council and President Smith in December 2023. Details of the following approved policies can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/files\/2023-24-GC-FINAL-AGENDA-December-1-2023-120123.docx\">https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/files\/2023-24-GC-FINAL-AGENDA-December-1-2023-120123.docx<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graduate Intent to Plan and Degree Approval Pathway (GC-23-12-02-PC)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The approved new pathway will significantly increase the ITP\/Degree approval process without changing the shared governance structure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graduate Admission Criteria Change: Conditional and Provisional Admissions (GC-23-12-03-PC)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The change allows programs to accept students conditionally and\/or provisionally unless the program has specifically stated otherwise in their program-specific admissions language.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graduate Admission Criteria Change &#8211; Transcripts (GC-23-12-04-PC)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The change will allow international students who have earned a bachelor&#8217;s degree from a non-US institution and a graduate degree from a US institution to be fully admitted by providing the official transcript for the graduate degree.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Catalog Change: Definition of Full-Time Status for Summer Graduate Students (GC-23-12-05-PC)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The change defines full-time summer course load as 6 credit hours. and half-time summer credit load is 3 credit hours.<\/p>\n<h2>Cross-Level Linked Courses Policy<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/files\/Cross-Level-Linked-Courses-Policy-2-23-24.pdf\">Cross-Level Linked Courses Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Procedure for Conflict of Interest in Thesis\/Dissertation Committees<\/h2>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/files\/Conflict-of-interest-in-thesis-committees.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Expedited Admissions Policy Policy and List of Opt-In Programs New Policies Approved by the Graduate Council and President Smith in December 2023. Details of the following approved policies can be found at https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/files\/2023-24-GC-FINAL-AGENDA-December-1-2023-120123.docx Graduate Intent to Plan and Degree Approval Pathway (GC-23-12-02-PC) The approved new pathway will significantly increase the ITP\/Degree approval process without<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3914","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3914\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-council\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}