Agee awarded Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education

Jonis Agee

March 5, 2014

Agee has graduated two to five doctoral students each year since 2005, a total of 10 from August 2012 to August 2013. She is directing 10 doctoral students and three master's students, in addition to serving as a reader on several other committees. Almost all of the students she directs finish within three to five years, and they complete at least one, often two and sometimes three books in that time span, while teaching four courses a year. The English department revised the doctoral program in the early 2000s — shifting to an individualized program, evaluated through a professional portfolio.

Agee was instrumental in setting up policies that allowed creative writers to complete publishable books and receive contracts for them as part of the program's work, and select "field and focus" comprehensive exams that would directly support the development of their creative work.

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