Public Announcement of Theses and Dissertations
UMass Dartmouth Graduate Studies requires all thesis and dissertation defenses to be publicly announced to the community, via UMassD Announce, a minimum of two weeks prior to the defense date.
- To add your defense to UMassD Announce, please submit via the University’s Events Calendar. Once entered and properly tagged, defenses will appear on this website. Defenses no longer need to be submitted separately to UMassD Announce.
- A job aid explaining how to enter a defense to the Events Calendar is available.
- Please note that submissions must be entered before 4 p.m. Thursday to be included in the following Monday's edition.
- For any questions regarding defense submissions, please contact calendar@umassd.edu.
- If your announcement does not meet this requirement, the Office of Graduate Studies will notify you that your defense must be rescheduled.
- When scheduling your defense date, be sure to allow sufficient time for the development and approval of the announcement.
- Your program of study may set a longer period of advance notification; please check with your graduate program director to confirm your program’s advance notification requirement.
Please note that UMassD Announce requests can only be submitted by faculty/staff of the University.