Guidelines to Petition to the Dean of Graduate Studies

Please complete the online form.

If you have questions please email grad@unm.edu. 

Petition to the Dean of Graduate Studies

College and Schools with graduate programs and graduate students may submit a petition to the Dean of Graduate Studies for an exception to university policies and regulations. Please review The Graduate Program section under Student Information and Policies of the University Catalog. All sections of the form must be complete before submission. Letters of support must come from the graduate director, associate chair, chair or director of the department or program. Petitions are individual to each student as they are part of the student's permanent record. 

All sections marked with an asterisk are required. A response to the petition will be emailed to the student with a copy to their department. If additional information is required of the student, they will be contacted either by phone or email. If additional information is required from the department, Graduate Studies staff will contact the department.

Please review the UNM Catalog for specific Graduate Studies policies (like time to degree, probation and suspension, leave of absences and assistantships). The justification should describe the desired outcome, e.g. “a one-year extension of the 5-year time to degree requirement for doctoral students.” The explanation should be thorough and provide sufficient information to allow for a full understanding of the request. 

Please allow 10 business days for Graduate Studies to process your request.  If you have questions, please email grad@unm.edu.