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Here we are. The hours are completed, the work is done and paperwork filed. You are officially a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. Why not celebrate? I would like to encourage you to do just that, not only once, but twice.
All graduates of OU – summer, December and May – are eligible to participate in the university-wide commencement ceremony Friday, May 14 inside Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. This is truly a spectacular event and one that will cap your tremendous accomplishment. Graduates line up outside the stadium and march in together. Regents and other university officers will be there, along with professors, deans and the OU president as well.
Talk about pomp and circumstance. There will plenty of that with flags, banners, trumpets, bagpipes, drums and a great speaker, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin promises to be memorable. Degrees are officially confirmed, everyone sings the OU Chant and the evening concludes with a massive fireworks display.
The next day, Saturday, May 15 the College of Liberal Studies will host convocation for all its graduates in the Rupel Jones Theater. That is on the north end of campus near the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
College convocation ceremonies provide you an opportunity to celebrate specifically with CLS. At this event you will be individually recognized, meet your professors and our associate dean, Trent Gabert and our dean, James Pappas who will present you with your diploma cover.
OU head women’s basketball Coach Sherri Coale is the CLS convocation speaker and I think you will find her to be very inspiring. Bring your friends and family. Plan to arrive at 10 a.m. to line up. The ceremony will start at 10:30. There is a parking garage across the street so that should not be a problem. The address is 563 Elm Avenue.
This is as festive and fun celebration and I look forward to seeing you there!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
What you need to apply to the master’s degree program
Congratulations. You mulled it over and over. The time seems right and you’ve decided to earn a master’s degree. That’s great. Now what? Well, first of all you need to apply for admission to the University of Oklahoma and to the College of Liberal Studies.
OU requires:
1. An application for admission;
2. Master of Arts supplemental application;
3. 300- to-500-word statement of purpose – this is required of everyone;
4. Official transcripts unless you are already an OU graduate.
And yes, if you already have a master’s degree and are applying to work on another, you still need to complete the statement of purpose.
We do accept students conditionally which means you need to maintain a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) on the first 12 hours of letter-graded course work in an online program.
For the Integrated Studies option you must complete the first 15 hours of course work within the first two years, maintaining a 3.0 GPA on any letter-graded course work.
You can submit a current resume and a 1500-word critical analysis of a book, movie, play or presentation and petition for alternate admission if you have a 2.25 to 2.74 GPA on the last 60 hours of undergraduate course work and if has been three years or more since your degree was conferred.
If it has not been three years, you can take an additional 12 hours of post baccalaureate courses at the junior/senior level (those are the courses numbered 4000or 5000) while maintaining a 3.25 GPA, then petition for admission.
When it comes to transferring credit from another master’s degree, if the course work is used to complete another degree it cannot be transferred. However, if it has not been used for another degree and is not more than five years old at the time of admission, the course work will be reviewed for relevancy. Transfer credit will not be evaluated until the student has applied for admission.
We look at each student on a case-by-case basis. A maximum of nine hours can be transferred into the degree program as long as it is not more than five years old and has not been used toward another degree.
This may seem like a lot of “ifs” but these guidelines are based on university policy and our experiences with adult students. How long it takes to be accepted depends on how quickly you get your materials together which, when you think about it, is the beginning step of being a graduate student – success depends on you.
OU requires:
1. An application for admission;
2. Master of Arts supplemental application;
3. 300- to-500-word statement of purpose – this is required of everyone;
4. Official transcripts unless you are already an OU graduate.
And yes, if you already have a master’s degree and are applying to work on another, you still need to complete the statement of purpose.
We do accept students conditionally which means you need to maintain a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) on the first 12 hours of letter-graded course work in an online program.
For the Integrated Studies option you must complete the first 15 hours of course work within the first two years, maintaining a 3.0 GPA on any letter-graded course work.
You can submit a current resume and a 1500-word critical analysis of a book, movie, play or presentation and petition for alternate admission if you have a 2.25 to 2.74 GPA on the last 60 hours of undergraduate course work and if has been three years or more since your degree was conferred.
If it has not been three years, you can take an additional 12 hours of post baccalaureate courses at the junior/senior level (those are the courses numbered 4000or 5000) while maintaining a 3.25 GPA, then petition for admission.
When it comes to transferring credit from another master’s degree, if the course work is used to complete another degree it cannot be transferred. However, if it has not been used for another degree and is not more than five years old at the time of admission, the course work will be reviewed for relevancy. Transfer credit will not be evaluated until the student has applied for admission.
We look at each student on a case-by-case basis. A maximum of nine hours can be transferred into the degree program as long as it is not more than five years old and has not been used toward another degree.
This may seem like a lot of “ifs” but these guidelines are based on university policy and our experiences with adult students. How long it takes to be accepted depends on how quickly you get your materials together which, when you think about it, is the beginning step of being a graduate student – success depends on you.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
About Me - Julie Raadschelders
Assistant professor
Program coordinator for graduate programs
College of Liberal Studies
I’m originally from Mooresville, Indiana, home of John Dillinger. My mother advised me against marrying anyone from Mooresville, so I married a Dutchman instead. As part of my master’s degree in public administration from Indiana University, I studied in Leiden, the Netherlands. One of my professors was Jozef Cornelis Nicolaas Raadschelders – a.k.a. Jos. We married in the summer of 1990, and I moved to the Netherlands in January of 1991.
The Netherlands is a beautiful country. Lots of green grass and pretty flowers – because it rains all of the time! I earned my Ph.D. from Indiana University in Public Policy in 1995 and started my own business translating Dutch texts for English publication. I also worked for two years at the Forum on Debt and Development, a research institute that facilitated policy discussion and publications on global financial issues. Things were good in the Netherlands, but it is a small, crowded country – about a one-sixth the size of Oklahoma but with more than 15 million people. My husband was offered a position at the University of Oklahoma beginning the fall of 1998 so we moved to Norman.
I spent my first years here enjoying the sunshine and the space and getting the family settled in. I continued to translate texts, and I worked for the Carl Albert Center for a year coordinating a conference on Women and Congress. In 2005, I decided I would like to work full-time and was very fortunate to be hired as the site manager for Advanced Programs which offers degree programs to military service members. In November 2006, I moved to the College of Liberal Studies to serve as the MA Program Coordinator. Both positions have involved working with graduate programs.
I am so impressed with our graduate students, adults who lead busy lives with family and work, but motivated and enthused about going back to school. It is inspiring to see how they manage to juggle the different demands and obligations in their lives while taking graduate coursework and earning their master’s degrees,
I am enjoying teaching in the program as well. Our students bring a range of experiences and ideas to the classroom that broadens everyone’s understanding, including my own. Teaching gives me the opportunity to see our program working firsthand and to have better insight into what works and what doesn’t always work.
CLS is in a unique position to develop courses and degree programs to meet the needs of students in a format that works for them. We have an excellent group of individuals working on all aspects of the program delivery, and I consider myself very fortunate to be working in such an innovative, progressive environment with these talented people.
Program coordinator for graduate programs
College of Liberal Studies
I’m originally from Mooresville, Indiana, home of John Dillinger. My mother advised me against marrying anyone from Mooresville, so I married a Dutchman instead. As part of my master’s degree in public administration from Indiana University, I studied in Leiden, the Netherlands. One of my professors was Jozef Cornelis Nicolaas Raadschelders – a.k.a. Jos. We married in the summer of 1990, and I moved to the Netherlands in January of 1991.
The Netherlands is a beautiful country. Lots of green grass and pretty flowers – because it rains all of the time! I earned my Ph.D. from Indiana University in Public Policy in 1995 and started my own business translating Dutch texts for English publication. I also worked for two years at the Forum on Debt and Development, a research institute that facilitated policy discussion and publications on global financial issues. Things were good in the Netherlands, but it is a small, crowded country – about a one-sixth the size of Oklahoma but with more than 15 million people. My husband was offered a position at the University of Oklahoma beginning the fall of 1998 so we moved to Norman.
I spent my first years here enjoying the sunshine and the space and getting the family settled in. I continued to translate texts, and I worked for the Carl Albert Center for a year coordinating a conference on Women and Congress. In 2005, I decided I would like to work full-time and was very fortunate to be hired as the site manager for Advanced Programs which offers degree programs to military service members. In November 2006, I moved to the College of Liberal Studies to serve as the MA Program Coordinator. Both positions have involved working with graduate programs.
I am so impressed with our graduate students, adults who lead busy lives with family and work, but motivated and enthused about going back to school. It is inspiring to see how they manage to juggle the different demands and obligations in their lives while taking graduate coursework and earning their master’s degrees,
I am enjoying teaching in the program as well. Our students bring a range of experiences and ideas to the classroom that broadens everyone’s understanding, including my own. Teaching gives me the opportunity to see our program working firsthand and to have better insight into what works and what doesn’t always work.
CLS is in a unique position to develop courses and degree programs to meet the needs of students in a format that works for them. We have an excellent group of individuals working on all aspects of the program delivery, and I consider myself very fortunate to be working in such an innovative, progressive environment with these talented people.
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