The goal of the Women Studies Department is to provide each student with the best training possible in light of the student's career goals. We understand that your goals or areas of interest may shift during your graduate training. In some cases the shift is such that your primary advisor is no longer the best person to guide your training. Feel free to discuss issues related to changing your faculty advisor with the Director of Graduate Training or the Department Chair at any time.

It is critical that you secure a new academic advisor prior to removing the original advisor from that role. This agreement (between the new advisor and you) should be in writing and a copy of the agreement should be forwarded to the Director of Graduate Training and the Chair of the department. This is necessary so that each student has a primary advisor at all times. Under most circumstances, the current advisor should be aware of your interest in changing advisors from the start. In any case, once the new advisor has agreed to the role, the Chair will inform the original advisor of the change.