1. Yale Digital Conference 2019
Vijayshree Erodula
Associate Director
Deepa Thomas
Business Systems Analyst

2. Digitizing the Dissertation Process
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences provides unsurpassed support to its Ph.D. students, which allows them to focus on their scholarship, successfully complete their education, and find rewarding careers.
Each doctoral student receives an annual stipend ranging from $31,000 to $35,850, plus free tuition and comprehensive health care for all students and their families. Yale knows of no other peer school that does this. Over six years, the total cost of support equals nearly $410,000 for a single Ph.D. student. For a student with a family, the support totals more than $490,000.
Yale incorporates teaching into the graduate student curriculum not for budgetary reasons, but to help our world-class student scholars to gain valuable experience that their future employers will want. This makes graduate students categorically different than Yale’s full-time university employees. Teaching is an important part of what it means to be a graduate student. But teaching is part of one’s professional academic training, and it is only a segment of the graduate student experience. 
Over the course of six years, doctoral students gain valuable teaching experience as part of their training, by devoting no more than a sixth of their time to teaching, and in many cases far less.
Vijayshree Erodula
Associate Director
Deepa Thomas
Business Systems Analyst

3. Digitizing the Dissertation Process
Facts – Ice Breaker
*Admittance to Candidacy
Dissertation Progress Review
*Manual Submission of Dissertation
Online Notification of Readers
*Dissertation published
*Manual to Digital
The dissertation should demonstrate the student's mastery of relevant sources and methods and should make an original contribution to knowledge in the field. Normally, it is expected that a dissertation will have a single topic, however broadly defined, and that all parts of the dissertation will be interrelated, but can constitute essentially discrete units. Beyond this principle, the faculty will apply the prevailing intellectual standards and scholarly practices within their fields in advising students with regard to the suitable scope, length, and structure of the dissertation, including what constitutes an original contribution to that field.
In accord with the traditional scholarly ideal that the candidate for a doctorate must make a contribution to knowledge, all dissertations that have been accepted by the Graduate School are published on microfilm by ProQuest and then deposited in the Manuscripts and Archives section of the Sterling Memorial Library. 

4. Facts – Ice Breaker
Who is the Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)?
How many total number of Ph.D. Grad students are enrolled in ?
Which program has the highest number of Ph.D enrollments?
How many number of Ph.D. students were awarded degree in this year?
What is dissertation embargo?
What is Microfiche or Microfilm?
Can dissertations be submitted in foreign languages?
Names of the two Dissertation Prizes?

6. Admittance to Candidacy
*Qualifying Examination
*Prospectus Certification
*Language Proficiency
*Admission to candidacy
Dissertation Progress Review
* Manual to Digital

7. Manual Submission of Dissertation
Today’s Process
Online Notification to Readers
*Sending dissertation to Readers
Reader’s Rating
*Electronic Submission
*Manual to Digital

8. Petitioning for Degrees and Degree Committee
GS degrees are awarded twice each year, at Commencement in May and in the December. Degrees are not granted automatically. Students must file a petition for each degree by the appropriate date. Petitions that have received favorable recommendations from the student’s department are reviewed and approved by the Degree Committee.

9. Sterling Memorial Library - Manuscripts and Archives
*Submission of Final Dissertation
*ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
*Manual to Digital