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One committee member must be from outside the Department of Educational Psychology. If a student elects to have a non-UT scholar, or a UT non-GSC member (non-tenured or non-tenure-track faculty) serve on the committee, the student will may be required to submit that member’s CV to the Graduate School before being approved for candidacy. A committee member with no UT-Austin affiliation must also send a no-expense form verifying ability to serve on the student’s committee at no expense to UT, and must must be appropriately credentialed to serve on a dissertation committee (i.e., have a Ph.D., J.D., or M.D. degree). If the non-UT member is the only out-of-department committee member, a short statement regarding the members’ appropriateness, as well as the member’s CV, must be submitted to the Graduate Adviser for approval. If the only out-of-department member is a graduate of the Educational Psychology department, that member must have graduated at least 5 years prior to becoming a member of the committee.
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