Contact the NAU Office of Graduate & Professional Studies
NAU Office of Graduate & Professional Studies
Forms index
The forms listed here are specific to NAU graduate students and faculty. Please find the list of forms and documents that best suits your needs.
Some forms and documents listed here may be housed on the Registrar’s website. For those, the links will redirect the user to the Registrar’s webpage.
A to Z Office of Graduate & Professional Studies Resource Guide – A comprehensive list of common topics related to the Office of Graduate & Professional Studies and the contact for each topic.
Forms for all NAU graduate students
Checklists
- Checklist for master’s non-thesis students
- Checklist for master’s thesis-track students
- Checklist for doctoral students dissertation programs
Petitions
- Academic Improvement Plan
- Add a class after the deadline
- Change a drop date or term withdrawal date
- Change a course to pass/fail after deadline
- Extension of Time – please submit this petition if your program is still using a Program of Study for degree tracking and graduation. If your program is using the Graduate Academic Advisement Report (Graduate AAR), please work with your advisor to have exceptions processed directly on your Graduate AAR. For more information, visit the OGPS Degree Tracking page.
- Graduate course repeat
- Incomplete contract, graduate
- Leave of Absence
- Out of Career Form for students using up to 6 hours of 400-level courses toward a graduate degree.
- Residency
- Transfer credit
- Unit load override approval
- Voluntary Withdrawal from a Graduate Program
- How to: Withdraw from a class or term after the deadline
Policies
Programs of Study
Graduate Assistantships
- Letter of appointment template
- Conditions of assistantship appointment
- Graduate Assistant Evaluation
- AY25 Exception-to-9-units-form
- The Graduate Assistantship Handbook is being revised for AY 2025-26. The new handbook is scheduled for completion by May 2025. Please contact GATW@nau.edu for questions regarding the handbook.
- Important dates for graduate assistants & graduate coordinators: Fall 2024 & Spring 2025
- Request for Additional Work form
- Tax information for graduate assistants
- Tech Summit 2025 Recording: Graduate Assistant Appointment Essentials
Tuition Waivers
- AY25 GATW Important Dates
- The AY26 Departmental Tuition Waiver Allocation form is pending AY 2025-26 tuition rate approval. Please continue to check this webpage for the revised version expected in April 2025. Contact GATW@nau.edu for questions regarding the form
- Tuition Waiver Flowchart
Thesis and Dissertation
- Dissertation Writing Survey
- Oral Defense Part 1 Form
- Oral Defense Part 2 Form
- UGC Representative Checklist
- Dissertation Defense Report to the Vice Provost of OGPS
- ETD Format Checklist Guide
- Master’s Steps to Success Guide
- 699/799 Guidelines & Contract
Forms for Doctoral Students
- Candidacy Application
- Dissertation Committee Recommendation Form
- Dissertation Defense Scheduling Form
- Doctoral Pathway Guide
Presidential Fellowship Program (PFP)
Forms and Resources for Faculty
Academic
- Department dismissal templates
- Dismissal Workflow communication
- Master’s (non-thesis) oral defense template
Admissions and program
- Accelerated program request
- Accelerated program planning considerations
- Accelerated progression plan worksheet
- Accelerated and Internal Transfer Credit form
- Checklist for new or changing graduate programs (update in progress)
- Graduate Admissions recommendation guide
- Master’s in Passing / Fall Back Request Form
- Program change request form
Graduate coordinator resources
- Graduate coordinator roles and responsibilities
- Graduate assistant process manual
- Graduate assistant processor quick start guide
- Graduate assistant processor training slides 2023: deep dive
- Graduate assistant processor training slides 2023: partners
- Important dates for GAs and graduate coordinators: Fall 2024 & Spring 2025
