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After the Final Oral

After your defense, the Gold Report of Dissertation Committee Form must be signed by all committee members. Those committee members who are not physically present at your final oral must sign the form digitally. The Graduate School no longer allows proxy signatures on the Gold this form. All signatures must be on the same form. Once all signatures are obtained, the supervisor or student must return the Gold form to the EDP Graduate Coordinator, who will then have the GSC Chair sign it, and will send it to the Graduate School for you. 

The white signature sheet must also be signed by all dissertation committee members, and you will turn that in to the Graduate School (Main Building, Room 1), with other required materials, after you upload your dissertation for graduation (see Graduation information). No proxy signatures are allowed on the white signature form. Digital signatures are accepted from all dissertation members with the exception of the dissertation supervisor, who must provide an ink signature. 

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