Faculty and Staff - Graduate School

Thank You for Supporting Our Students

Whether you’re a new faculty or staff hire or you’ve been part of the CSU family for years, you belong to a community of ambitious individuals. Students are counting on your knowledge and experience to prepare them for careers that tackle global challenges. Your commitment and dedication to CSU helps our graduate students thrive. Please feel free to contact us with questions.

Please review the Graduate and Professional Bulletin, it is designed to provide post baccalaureate students and prospective students with the information which is most essential. This website further summarizes some of the most commonly referenced policies and procedures in that document.

Assisting Future and Current Students

Find resources to help your future students and current students on our comprehensive student focused resource pages. You will find forms, application information, policies and procedures, thesis and dissertation information, petitions and so much more.

Future Students

Current Students

Resources

Admissions & Recruitment

Students all over the world seek out CSU for its research, faculty, and community. View our resources for recruiting and retaining the best group of students possible.

Admissions Resources

Advising & Mentoring

With 4,000 resident- instruction graduate students and 2,000 online students, it takes the whole community to ensure student success. Here are some resources to help.

Advising Resources

Diversity & Mentoring

GCIM aims to propel graduate student success by better cultivating mentor-mentee relationships between CSU faculty and graduate students. You may also want to visit our grant funding tips page to help attract a more students to join your department.

Graduate Center for Inclusive Mentoring

Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I find some answers about the English Proficiency requirements for prospective international students?

Visit our English Proficiency requirements page for additional information.

Where can I find information about CSU’s Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP)?

CSU’s Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP)

Where can I direct my student to find the form that they need?

Form instructions and details are available on our forms page.

What do I need to include a petition for my student?

Visit our petitions page for information about when a petition is required and what information is needed.

Where can my student find information about commencement, regalia, etc.?

Students, faculty, and visitors are welcome to review our Commencement pages for event details. Faculty are officially invited by the Graduate School Dean.

Do you have quick instructions on hooding my graduating Ph.D. student?

Instructions are available for hooding your Ph.D. student and if any of your students have regalia questions, feel free to visit our regalia section.