After You Submit Your ETD
Keep your original Word document! Back it up in more than one location! If revisions are needed, it is much easier to revise the Word document, then reconvert it to a PDF, than it would be to modify the PDF.
Check your email! The results of your format review will be sent to the email address you entered in your ProQuest ETD Administrator profile. This email address is also where we will contact you when your graduation has been processed. Note that we cannot change the email address in your ETD Administrator profile to send it to a different email address. If you have questions about receiving format review emails, please contact us at etdinfo@pdx.edu.
Students often need to make formatting revisions after initial submission of their final thesis or dissertation to the Graduate School. If you have met the Thesis/Dissertation Submission deadline for your intended term of graduation, but need to make additional formatting revisions, you can still graduate in that term provided you submit the required revisions by the individualized deadline provided by the Graduate School during your format review.
You will not be certified for graduation until the formatting of your thesis/dissertation has been fully approved by the Graduate School. If your ETD is approved before your term of graduation ends, your Graduate School processor will send you an email. If your ETD is approved after your term of graduation ends and everything is ready for degree awarding, you may not be notified until you have been certified for graduation. Either way, you should be regularly checking both your PSU email and the email address you entered in your ETD Administrator profile as we may contact you at either email address. Regardless of the timing of your ETD approval, we will email you once we have certified you for graduation.
Please note that after you have graduated, you will not be able to make any further revisions to your ETD. Your degree was awarded based in part on completion and submission of this document and it cannot be amended after the fact, even to correct typos.
Doctoral students only: Please note that you cannot participate in the Spring PSU Commencement ceremony unless you have been certified for graduation by the Graduate School. Again, we will be in touch.