In order to reduce the administrative burden on the DGS, we ask that departments continually seek opportunities to disaggregate the responsibilities of administering the graduate program and advising students. We encourage departments to take steps to circumscribe more clearly the scope of this position according to the links below.

By sharing more broadly the responsibilities for administering the graduate programs and for advising and evaluating the Ph.D. students, on the one hand, and by providing research support for the directors of graduate studies, on the other, the departments and the administration can develop a more equitable distribution of the additional time for service and research that was created by the reduced teaching load that was introduced in humanities and social science departments.