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Doctor of Education Degree (Ed.D.)for Appointment of Doctoral Committee form to the Graduate College.The Graduate College notifies the adviser, the committee members, andthe Instructional Programs Office when the committee is formallyappointed.After the committee is appointed, the preliminary oral examination takesplace. The adviser obtains the student’s file and Certificate of Results ofPreliminary Examination form from the Instructional Programs Officeimmediately before the examination and returns them to the same officeimmediately after the examination. All appointed members must signthe Certificate Report form.The result form may indicate positive or negative actions, but it is alsopossible to ”adjourn” the committee and reconvene it at a later date. Thecommittee may be adjourned for a period of no longer than six months.The student does not need to be registered at the time of the preliminaryoral examination if 24 units of graduate work (including the master’sdegree) have been completed, unless University facilities are being used.However, the examination must be retaken if the doctoral program is notcompleted within five years of the original examination.For all dissertations involving the use of human subjects, approval mustbe obtained from the College Human Subjects Review Committee priorto the preliminary examination.Dissertation Editorial Style and Format ApprovalThe dissertation must be prepared using one of the following commonlyaccepted editorial styles:American Psychological Association. (1994). Publication manual of theAmerican Psychological Association (4th ed.). Washington, DC:Author.Harvard Law Review Association. (1991).citation (15th ed.). Cambridge, MA: Author.A uniform system ofModern Language Association. (1988). MLA handbook for writers ofresearch papers (3rd ed.). New York: Author.Turabian, K. L. (1987). A manual for writers of term papers, theses, anddissertations (5th ed.). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.51