Tham khảo tài liệu 'writing your doctoral dissertation - part 15', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Roles and responsibilities of committees the discipline and of your specific research focus. These interactions are a prelude to the formal conversation which will occur at your oral examination or oral defense. The Complexities of the Committee s Power The faculty are the ones who typically initiate the necessary approvals for your proposal and eventually for your dissertation. This imbalance of power prevails throughout the process. And inequalities in power are played out in different ways with each person having a unique experience. Relationships between students and faculty are complicated. There are numerous reasons for this The university establishes a hierarchical structure with the faculty having the authority read that as power to recommend students for graduation for example. Thus students are dependent on faculty in this relationship. Ultimately the students in a doctoral program become colleagues of the faculty frequently teaching on the staff of the university or other local institutions. Some faculty resist this transition. They believe that once a student always a student. For others this is an important phase which they consciously and overtly support seeking to participate in the apprenticeship of their future colleagues. Some professors establish a tough love stance wherein they believe their responsibility is to help the student but the student must both ask for help and show that she or he has independently worked at trying to resolve the issue. Some professors prefer to have as little as possible to do with the daily development of the dissertation seeing it only when the student is convinced she or he has finished with it. Others want to hear frequent updates on progress and to participate for example in the data analysis process. The committee s intent and concerns at times are perceived as abusive. There are numerous contexts in which their influence is felt. Harvard University was catapulted into the limelight recently when one of their .
