Certificate of Committee Approval

Certificate of Committee Approval Form (PDF)

The Certificate of Committee Approval is available on the Graduate College Web site as a PDF form. You can either download this form or open it directly in you browser to complete and print the form. We highly recommend that you use the PDF version of the Certificate of Committee Approval Form if at all possible.

If your thesis title contains special characters or is longer than four lines, you may not be able to complete the PDF form on-line. The Graduate College provides a Microsoft Word template version of the Certificate of Committee Approval form, a .dot file, that you can use for these special cases. To use the Word template, you will need to download and install the template in your Word document template directory.& Instructions for downloading and using the Word template are found below. Please note that you should not modify the Word template format. The location of the border and each field must be consistent with the approved form layout. The Graduate College reserves the right to reject any forms where the formatting of the original form has been modified.

Download Instructions for Word Template

WARNING: If you are unfamiliar with downloading information from the internet and/or working with document templates in Word, the Graduate College strongly suggests that you work with your network administrator to get the Certificate of Committee Approval form document template installed in the proper directory on your system. Once you have the form template in the right location, you will find the use of this template to be relatively easy.

Click here to download the document template. Please note that when you are prompted by the browser for where to save the download file, you will need to save the file with a dot extension. Your browser may default the name to CertCommitteeApproval.doc. This should be changed to CertCommitteeApproval.dot.
Copy the download file to the folder for your Word document templates. (If you do not know where Microsoft Word stores templates, open a document in Word and select Tools/Options from the menu. Check the File Locations tab to see where the User Templates are stored. This is the location to place the new template. See your network administrator if you are still unsure of how to add a template to Word.)

Using the Word Template

Create a new word document. When prompted by Microsoft Word, select the CertCommitteeApproval.dot template from the template list on the General Tab. (If you do not see CertCommitteeApproval.dot on the template list, you have not saved the template file to the correct location.)
Enter the information on the form. You will only be permitted to type in the data entry fields. You can tab between fields or use your mouse to move to a specific field. If the thesis title contains special characters, Word may prevent you from directly typing them in the form field; however, it will allow you to cut and paste text containing special characters into the form field. You can now save or print the completed form; your template will remain unchanged.

PDF files require Adobe Reader.