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Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies

Information for New Students

 

List of Topics

 

 

2010-11 Graduate Program Fees

 

 

2010-11 Graduate Studies Significant Dates (12-week term)

 

 

Establish your TMU Online Identity: "my.torontomu.ca"

 

 

Program's ListServes

 

 

Program of Study (for new students only)

 

 

Progress Report in Each Term

 

 

One Card - A multipurpose TMU Student Photo ID card

 

 

MyServiceHub

 

 

Scholarship Disbursement

(For full-time students who are 2010-11 scholarship or award recipients.)

 

 

Student's Personal Email Address vs. TMU Email Address

 

 

2010-11 Graduate Program Fees

 

Graduate students must maintain continuous registration in every term from the term of program admission to graduation or withdrawal (voluntarily or involuntarily) unless a student has applied for and been approved Leave of Absence due to severe illness or parental leave.

Tuition is calculated on the basis of the student's program and status (part- or full-time), NOT on the number of courses that a student takes per term. The tuition is a YEARLY charge, which is broken into three equivalent payments for the three terms in a graduate academic calendar. The graduate program fees of each program are published online in the Graduate Studies Fees web site. If the web site shows the previous academic year's fees schedules, visit this web site again in August.

Program fees payment due date in each term is available in the Graduate Studies Significant Dates

Students will be able to obtain individual fees statement online, term by term, in MyServiceHub. The Fall 2010 term online fees statement will be available in the end of August 2010 or earlier.

Other useful web links related to fees:
Fees Payment Methods: https://www.torontomu.ca/current-students/tuition-fees/pay-fees



ServiceHub operating hours, location and contact information: torontomu.ca/servicehub/contact

 

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2010-11 Graduate Studies Significant Dates (12-week term)

 

Students will find important academic dates of each of the Fall 2010, Winter 2011 and Spring/Summer 2011 terms in this list ( (PDF file) pdf).

A few of the academic dates which students frequently inquire about are included in this list for example:
· Student's web access to final grades in each term
· First day and Last day of classes in each term
· Last day to add a course in each term
· Last day to drop a course in each term
· Program fee payment due date in each term (students who are scholarship and/or award recipients should refer to information about Scholarship Disbursement below).

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Establish your TMU Online Identity "my.torontomu.ca"

 

To activate the TMU Online Identity, you need your Student/Application ID number. Your ID number is a 9-digit TMU number indicated in your formal Offer of Admission as well as in the Confirmation Form which you signed to accept the offer of admission.

You may want to review information provided in How to Activate Your TMU Online Identity before the activation process. Visit the Computing and Communication Services web site to activate your online identity at TMU.

Use the same 'username' and 'password' for your TMU email account to log-in my.torontomu.ca. If you come across any technical problems during the activation process, contact Computing and Communications Services (CCS).

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ISS Program's List Serves

 

The program maintains a one-way Immigration & Settlement Studies program student's list serve. As soon as a new student has activated his/her university e-mail account, the e-mail address will be automatically added to the ISS program's list serve. Your program frequently uses this list serve to post program and general information.

What is a one-way communication list serve? Only the list serve administrator and the program director can post messages on the list serve. ISS students who are part of the program list serve cannot reply to list serve's messages nor can they use the list serve to circulate/transmit messages to other students in the program.

The list serve is used by the program to post messages for the university and other academic communities. These messages generally have to be academic and/or program related (such as conferences information, and conferences' call for papers). The program reserves the right to decide what messages to be posted. Generally messages which are personal in nature or messages representing/advocating interests of special groups will not be posted.

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One Card- a multipurpose Student Photo ID card

 

To apply for a One Card online and to learn about various functions of this card visit: www.torontomu.ca/university-business-services/onecard

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MyServiceHub

 

In MyServiceHub, students are able to view the personal class schedules for courses they are enrolled in, final grades, download an unofficial academic transcript, apply for graduation, changing personal information and more.

To check if the courses you asked to add or drop have been processed correctly, you must log in 'my.torontomu.ca', click the tab "MyServiceHub", and then navigate in your Student Centre screen to check your course enrollment.

[Note: You must establish your Ryerosn Online Identity successfully first before you may log-in 'my.torontomu.ca'.]

Review information provided in the MyServiceHub Support web site for detailed information about what MyServiceHub can do for you. Graduate students should note that some of the MyServiceHub functions are available to undergraduate students only. Online course registration, adding, dropping and swapping course online are unavailable to graduate students. Refer to the your program's Course Selection/Registration Instructions for further information.

 

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Program of Study (for new students only)

 

New graduate students must meet with the assigned faculty advisor to complete an initial Program of Study within the first four weeks in the first Fall term. The Program of Study form is due on Friday, October 8, 2010 for new graduate students whose first term of study is in the Fall 2010 term. The Form is available for download at the ISS Program Forms web site. DO NOT use the Program of Study form as your course selection form.

The Program of Study sets the stage for new students to plan and think ahead: how to complete the program requirements within the required time frame and what research directions they would like to pursue to complete the research component of the program. Information in the initial Program of Study form may and could be modified later by completing the Progress Report which a graduate student must complete in each term starting in the beginning of the second term of study.

A new full-time student will know the name of his/her Faculty Advisor no later than the first week of classes in the first term of study. The Program Director will announce the faculty advisor assignment to each new student by e-mail. The Program Director acts as the Faculty Advisor for all part-time students until a student has started the research work.

A Faculty Advisor serves as an academic contact to a student and provides general academic guidance. The faculty advisor does not necessarily become the student's research faculty supervisor in the Major Research Paper (MRP) although a student may seek advice from his/her faculty advisor regarding the search for a suitable research supervisor. ISS students begin the process of looking for a research faculty supervisor for the Major Research Paper (MRP) in the term when they are enrolled in the Research Methods course (IS 8904).

The Program Director's signature on the Program of Study form is not required because they will be passed on collectively to the director for his/her signature. The forms submitted by full-time students must be signed by the student and the assigned faculty advisor. Part-time students have the option of making an appointment with the Program Director to complete the Program of Study form or submitting it without the Program Director's signature. Both full- and part- Students are strongly advised to keep a photocopy for future reference. The completed and signed Program of Study may be returned to the Program Administrator by fax to (416) 979-5153 or it may be dropped off at the School of Graduate Studies (at YDI on the 11th floor).

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Progress Report in Each Term

 

All graduate students must meet with the Faculty Advisor at least once in each term to complete a Progress Report while the students are actively registered in a graduate program. The purpose of the meeting and completing a Progress Report is to review the student's academic progress in the previous term, and if applicable, to re-define a student's research direction or focus.

The first Progress Report for students admitted in the Fall 2010 term is the Fall 2010 Progress Report and this report is due in the beginning of the Winter 2011 term (Monday, January 17, 2011). The deadline to submit a progress report in each term is published in the SGS Significant Dates.

Part-time students should see the Major Research Paper faculty supervisor to complete the Progress Report after they have started the MRP research work. If a full-time student begins the research work before May 1st, he/she should the MRP faculty supervisor to complete Winter term progress report; otherwise, the student should see the Faculty Advisor to complete the Winter progress report.

Part-time students may have completed all the course work when they begin the MRP writing. Students are required to submit a Progress Report by the due date every term as long as they are actively registered in the program even though they are completing the research component of the program only in that term and are not attending any classes.

Students who have outstanding progress reports will not get scholarship/award funding transferred on time and/or will have a block in MyServiceHub which stops the student from using some of the functions in the online Student Centre, and/or may have negative academic consequences.

The Progress Report may be submitted to the Program Administrator without the Program Director's signature but must be signed by the student and the student's faculty advisor or the MRP supervisor where applicable. The Report can be sent by fax to 416.979.5153 or it can be dropped off in the School of Graduate Studies during office hours. Students are strongly advised to keep a copy of the Report for the record.

ISS Progress Report is available for download at the ISS Program Forms web site.

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Scholarship Disbursement

[Information in this section is for full-time students who are scholarship and/or award recipients.]

 

The Fees Payment Deadline each term, as stated in the 2010-11 SGS  (PDF file) Significant Dates DOES NOT apply to full-time students who are recipients of the following scholarship and/or award in 2010-11:
· Toronto Met Graduate Scholarship (TMGS)
· Toronto Met Graduate Award (TMGA)
· Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
· OGSST
· Ontario Graduate Fellowship (OGF).

As stated in the scholarship/award terms and conditions form (in section [D] Disbursement of Funds) the annual scholarship and award funding is divided into three equal installments. Each installment will be deposited to the student's financial account in the FIRST WEEK OF CLASSES of each term according to the schedules below:
· Fall 2010 term's installment will be deposited during the WEEK of Sept 13th.
Check your fees account on Sept 17th.

· Winter 2011 term's installment will be deposited during the WEEK of January 10.
Check your fees account on Jan 14th.

· SS 2011 term's installment will be deposited during the WEEK of May 9th.
Check your fees account on May 13th.

Each scholarship and/or award installment will be put into the student's financial account and pay the term's program fees first. Students must pay the outstanding fees balance before the End of the FIRST Month of classes of that term to avoid late fees, for example, any outstanding fees in the Fall term must be paid before the end of September. If there is a credit balance after the scholarship/award installment has been applied to pay the program fees, a cheque will be issued and mailed to the student's mailing address - refer to details in the terms and conditions form of your scholarship and/or award. It is a student's responsibility to ensure the mailing address in MyServiceHub is correct and up-to-date.

Information indicated above does not apply to SSHRC and NSERC scholarship recipients. Students who are recipients of these external scholarships must pay each term's program fees by the Fees Payment Deadlines stated in the SGS Significant Dates to avoid late fees.

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Student's Personal Email Address vs. TMU Email Address

 

Students are responsible for checking the university e-mail account frequently and ensuring there is sufficient space in the account to receive messages from the program and from the university. New students' personal e-mail addresses are used throughout the summer until about the end of August or before the first term of classes begins. New students will be notified by e-mail before the Program Administrator switches over to use only new students' TMU email addresses.

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