Program Progression

Admissions

The Audiology Faculty Council, comprised of faculty and staff of each participating institution is charged with making recommendations for admission to the home institution. The home institution will be responsible for maintaining student transcripts, providing advisement, as well as monitoring ASHA certification and NYS licensing requirements.

A transcript and a 300 word essay describing why one wants to pursue a doctoral degree is required of each student applying.  In some cases where graduate work has been completed, the faculty council may review and recommend exceptions from specific course work for which academic and clinical expertise has been demonstrated. 

Advisement

Students’ progress through the program will be monitored through academic advising, assessment of educational and clinical performance, and periodic competency based evaluations administered to students at regular intervals throughout the program.

Graduate Assistantships are available. Assistants have an opportunity to work in the department, the clinic, or with a faculty member with different sorts of tasks including faculty research projects, managing the Speech and Hearing Lab, the Hearing Aid Dispensary, etc. Graduate assistants typically work 10 hours per week.

Scholarship and assistantship awards are applied toward tuition. Graduate Assistantship awards are based on an hourly scale.

All awards are renewable and must be reapplied for each academic year.

Program Policies

1. The home institution will be responsible for maintaining students transcripts, providing advisement, as well as monitoring ASHA certification and NYS licensing requirements. The home institution will award the degree, noting that it was completed in conjunction with the two other universities in the consortium. Requests by applicants for a specific home institution will be honored if possible. In order to balance the enrollment among the participating schools, the Council may assign students to another campus.
2. Students must maintain a minimum 3.0 average throughout their course of study. Any students falling below a 3.0 average will be placed on probation. A probationary status may not be maintained for more than one semester, inclusive of summer sessions. Any student who fails a required course in the program is subject to dismissal.
3. Students who obtain a grade less than B- in any academic course will be required to demonstrate competence through alternate means, such as doing an independent study or retaking the class. A student who retakes a class and again obtains a grade less than B- will be dismissed from the program. No more than 3 grades of less than B- in different courses will be acceptable for good standing in the program. Students who obtain a grade less than B in any clinical practicum will be required to repeat the practicum or to accrue additional clinical hours. A student who earns a grade less than B in a repeated practicum will be dismissed from the program.
4. Students who have accumulated 2 or more incomplete grades at the start of a semester, including summer sessions, may not begin clinical practicum. Clinical practica in students' minor area are excluded from this. Students who have an incomplete grade for any clinic course in the major area may begin the next clinic practicum in the sequence only after the incomplete clinic grade has been eliminated and a satisfactory letter grade has been assigned.
5. Students are required to complete successfully the Comprehensive Examination at the end of level 2 and at the end of level 3. Applicants for the examination must file within the first month of the semester in which they plan to take the examination.
6. Continuation in the Au.D. program requires satisfactory interpersonal behavior and professional performance in all academic classes and clinical practica, with no documented reports of unprofessional or unethical conduct.

Graduation

Students will receive a diploma from their home institution upon successful completion of the Au.D. degree requirements. The diploma will note that the degree was awarded in conjunction with the two other universities in the consortium.

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