Review of Graduate Student Progress
Selected Resources
Books and articles
Council of Graduate Schools. Ph.D. Completion and Attrition: Policy, Numbers, Leadership, and Next Steps. Washington: Council of Graduate Schools, 2004.
Ehrenberg, Ronald G., et al. "Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students'
Attrition and Graduation Probabilities?"
www.ilr.cornell.edu/cheri/wp/cheri_wp83.pdf (PDF)
Golde, Chris. M. "Should I stay or should I go? Student descriptions of the doctoral attrition process." The Review of Higher Education 23 (2000) 199-227.
Lovitts, Barbara. Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
Nelson, Cary and Barbara E. Lovitts. "10 Ways to Keep Graduate Students From Leaving." Chronicle of Higher Education 29 Jun. 2001.
Smallwood, Scott. "Doctor Dropout: High attrition from Ph.D. programs is sucking away time, talent, and money and breaking some hearts, too." Chronicle of Higher Education 16 Jan. 2004.
Graduate College Policies and Guidelines
Guidelines on Annual Review: www.grad.uiuc.edu/Pubs/bmp/bmp5.html
Probation Policy: www.grad.uiuc.edu/policies/probation.htm
Exemplary UIUC departmental pages
Materials Science and Engineering: www.mse.uiuc.edu/downloads/Program_expect.pdf (PDF)
Geology: www.geology.uiuc.edu/grad/handbook/index.html
Library & Information Science: www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/phd/reporting.html
EDDIE
Eddie reports are found at https://eddie.ds.uillinois.edu/wijsp
To access the academic history for advisor reports —
- Click on "log in" and enter information
- Click on "Registration and Records"
- Click on "SAH Academic History for Advisor"; you will get a page with just the header of the report
- Click on the refresh button (circle with arrows)
- Enter the student's UIN; enter term (usually the current term e.g. 120061)
- Click on "run query"; this will bring up the student information page
- Other reports are on tabs at the bottom of the page, e.g. course history by term and course history by subject
- To print a report, first choose landscape format and then click on the report before selecting print
PDF files require
Adobe Reader.
