Rockefeller College of Public Administration & Policy
Department of Public Administration & Policy
Ph.D. PROGRESS REPORT 2009-2010
Due date: April 15,2010
Name:
Phone:
E-mail:
Address:
Year matriculated:
Field:
Advisor and/or
Dissertation
Committee
(indicate dissertation
chair, if you have one)
Add lines, spaces, rows in tables, etc. as needed to complete the report. Please repaginate the final version to make
the document easier to read. Include your full name in the header of the second page where indicated.
Falsification of any element of this Progress Report (including attachments) constitutes misconduct and may result
in disciplinary action by the Department, College, or University.
______________________________________________________________________________
Signatures
We have jointly reviewed this Progress Report and attached Curriculum Vitae.
Student:
Date
Advisor/Chair:
Date
______________________________________________________________________________
Progress checklist (Only check off those items that are fully completed, filed, and/or approved.)
Core courses completed
PAD 880-883 presentation requirement met
(applicable to students entering after 9/1/2006)
Core review completed (if applicable)
Comprehensive exam completed (if
applicable)
Field courses completed
Field requirements for candidacy met (list)
Completed Degree Program (CDP) filed
Tentative Degree Program (TDP) filed
Admission to candidacy paperwork filed
Prospectus defended
Residency requirement fulfilled (list terms)
CV enclosed. An updated Curriculum Vita must be submitted with this document. Your CV must
include (a) a summary of your teaching experience; (b) a complete list of the academically-relevant jobs you have
Name: __________________________________
held; (c) a full list of the conferences at which you have presented papers; (d) a list of your publications. You may
also submit any other documentation of your progress in the program as appropriate.
1. Core Courses (For courses under way or incomplete, enter the term in which the course was attempted.)
For students who took or are taking the comprehensive examination, please indicate whether you have passed the
section of the comp that corresponds to each core course.
PAD 702
PAD 703
PAD 704
PAD 705
PAD 708
PAD 709
Term
completed
Grade
Comp
passed?
For courses in which you have an “INCOMPLETE”: Provide a plan and timeline for
clearing the incomplete below.
PAD 880-883 Series (Applies to students entering after 9/1/2006.)
Indicate (a) the term in which you registered for each course and (b) when your presentation requirement was
fulfilled.
PAD 880
PAD 881
PAD 882
PAD 883
Term
completed
Presentation
2. Field Courses (For courses under way or incomplete, enter the term in which the course was attempted.)
Field:
Course number
Term completed
Grade
If non-PAD course, list title
Field course 1
Field course 2
Field course 3
Field course 4
Field course 5
Field course 6
Field course 7
Field course 8
Other courses
Other courses
Other courses
For courses in which you have an “INCOMPLETE”: Provide a plan and timeline for
clearing the incomplete below.
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Name: __________________________________
3. Field progress. Briefly describe your efforts to complete field requirements (i.e., literature review,
publishable paper, field comprehensive exam, etc.) during the last year. If you have completed a requirement,
enter “Field requirements fulfilled” in the description. If one of the requirements listed below does not apply to
your field, enter “N/A” in the description.
Requirement
Date of planned /
actual completion
Description of progress this year
Field courses
Field comp exam
Publishable paper
Literature review
4. Dissertation progress last year. Ph.D. Students: Briefly describe your efforts to recruit a dissertation
chair and committee members, identify a dissertation topic, find data, etc. Ph.D. Candidates: Briefly outline the
current state of your dissertation, listing how many chapters you have drafted, how many chapters your
committee has reviewed, and how many are work-in-progress.
5. Frequency and adequacy of contact with advisors last year. Describe how often you meet with
your advisors last year and what those meetings were used for. Assess the adequacy of your contact with your
advisors.
6. Timeline. Outline your planned coursework and dissertation research starting with the Fall 2006 term through
the completion of your dissertation. (You may cut & paste in text from your Tentative Degree Program, if you
have one.)
7. Participation in the intellectual life of the Department, College, and University. List
cumulatively any lecture series, brown bags, seminars, workshops, symposiums, study groups, dissertation
review groups, etc. that you have participated in regularly during your doctoral studies at the Rockefeller
College, with the most recent events first. Describe your level of participation in one sentence for each event or
meeting listed. If you presented at any of these meetings, list the title and date of the presentation. Add lines to
the table as needed.
Name of event
Term(s)
Description of participation (include presentation titles & dates if
appropriate)
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Name: __________________________________
8. Participation in conferences, professional societies, or other external academic
meetings. Provide the name, date, and location of all professional meetings which you attended during the
course of your doctoral studies at the Rockefeller College. Note whether you participated in some fashion in the
meeting (e.g., as discussant for a paper, session moderator, etc.).
Name
Date
Location
Description of participation (include paper titles if
appropriate)
9. Service to the department. Cumulatively list and briefly describe any service you have provided to the
Department over the course of your doctoral studies at the Rockefeller College. Examples would include
serving as a Brown Bag organizer, member of the Rockefeller College Review board, member of a College or
University committee, graduation marshal, etc.
Service
Term(s)
Description
10. Plans for Summer 2010. Describe how you intend to spend the upcoming summer. Note both your
research and employment plans. Note how your summer activities will advance your progress toward the
degree, if at all.
11. Honors/Awards/Funding. List cumulatively your honors, awards, and funding.
12. Publications. List cumulatively your publications in reverse chronological order. Please provide a complete
citation.
13. Special concerns or issues. List any issues or concerns that have aided or impeded your progress during
the last year. (If there are issues that you wish to share in confidence, please direct them to the Ph.D. director or
department chair in a separate communication.)
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