The Provost’s office is responsible for establishing and updating a number of guidelines and regulations of importance to academic units of the University, particularly within the areas of faculty personnel actions, academic integrity, and academic planning. Those documents appear below.
A complete collection of University-level policies—those directives that reflect the administration and governance of the University of Pittsburgh, including operations, community standards, employment, financial, and research and innovation policies—is available via the Office of Policy Development and Management.
Academic Regulations
- Academic Probation/Suspension/Dismissal
- Academic Program Structure
- Academic Standing for Graduate and Professional Students
- Academic Standing for Undergraduate Students
- Advanced Standing Credits
- Course Inventory
- Course Meeting Times
- Course Repeat
- Course Structure
- Course Withdrawal
- Credential Overlap
- Credit Hour
- Cross Registration from Regional Campuses to the Oakland Campus
- Definitions Related to Distance Education
- G Grade Deadline
- Grade Changes
- Graduate Faculty Qualifications
- Graduate Student Research (GSR) Academic Regulations
- Incomplete Grade
- Maintenance and Publication of University Catalogs
- Minors and Areas of Concentration
- Parental Accommodation Academic Regulations for Graduate and Professional Students
- Registration for the “Full-Time Dissertation Study” Course
- TA/TF/GSA Academic Regulations
- University Cumulative Quality Point Average (QPA) and GPA
- University Grading
- University Honors
Guidelines and Processes
- Academic Integrity Guidelines
- Accelerated Program Proposal Process
- Assessing Student Learning Outcomes
- CIP Code Modification Process Guidelines
- Conducting Evaluations of Academic Programs
- Course Attributes
- Elements of Good Academic Advising
- FERPA
- Final Exam Conflict Accommodation Guideline
- Off-Campus and Distance Learning Programs
- Planning and Budgeting System (PBS) Document
- Postdoctoral Associates and Postdoctoral Scholars, Guidelines for
- Postdoctoral Fellows Employment Classification
- Posthumous Degrees Guidelines, Awarding of
- Predoctoral Fellows and Trainees Appointment Policy Statement
- Process for Inter-unit (formerly "Joint") Degree Programs
- Regulations Governing Graduate Study at the University of Pittsburgh
- Research Associates, Guidelines for
- Review of Academic Planning Proposals (see also FAQ)
- Standards for Issuing Physical Certificates
- Transcript Annotations, Guidelines for
- Travel Registry Guidelines
- University Records Management