Henry T.
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Initially good now horrible
On October 2, 2025, I was informed that my committee chair and committee would be changing. For DHS700 and DHS701 I was working with one chair and I get an email all of a sudden before DHS702 that my chair would be changing. The email also stated, " I understand that changes to a chair can feel disruptive. Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you during this time of transition." I immediately responded, " Yes, this does feel very disruptive as I am still waiting on the AR1 review. Can someone schedule a meeting with me that this won't affect my timeline for completion." I met with the program chair who, apologize for assigning me the wrong chair in the first place because the chair that I had was a PsyD and I needed to have a PhD chair. I ask how that would affect me because my chair and I were working together constantly to get things together and gave me great guidance with every step. He assured me that I would get the same thing and that I was ahead and my timeline wouldn't be affected. This is all while waiting for AR1. Once the second request for revisions (with new things to fix not mentioned in the initial request for revisions) came through the new chair email me to make the updates. I updated and resubmitted. Then a third request for request for revisions came (also with new things that were not asked in the first or second request). I updated and resubmitted. Then a fourth request for revisions came (also with some new things that were not asked on the first, second, or third request). I then emailed my program chair and asked for a meeting because the requests were getting ridiculous and he said that he would send me a zoom meeting and I updated and resubmitted again. The zoom meeting was never sent to me; I then received an email that AR1 was approved the next day. Once that was approved, I submitted to IRB. IRB approval was quicker than AR1, I received it back in about a week. I started collecting data and then started formulating my results, conclusion, and recommendations. I then submitted to my chair for review. I received an email from the chair to fix some minor things; I updated and resubmitted the very next day. My chair was good with the submission, and he submitted to my committee member. The committed member had quite a bit of asks and clarification, but I updated and resubmitted after a few days and asked if any clarification was needed that please schedule a meeting with me. I received and email from my chair that committee member approves. I was asked to clean it up, remove track changes, remove comments, and resubmit. I updated and resubmitted the very next day on Dec 19th. On Dec 21, 2025, I emailed both the program chair and my committee chair on my status asking if I would need to enroll in another term because I was supposed to defend this term and that my aid only covered this term and not another term. I then sent a follow-up Dec 27th. My program chair emailed me Dec 29th that my document would be submitted that night, and today Dec 30th I received and email that my document was submitted for AR2. I still do not know if I will be defending, with all of the emailing back and forth, I still have not actually met with my new chair since the change, only emails back and forth. I'm not getting answers, I am frustrated that I had the perfect chair and was she removed from me and now I feel like stuck, my Trident experience was awesome up until October 2nd. My path to graduation was supposed to be completed this term and I'm still in the dark as to what i need to do. I submitted a grievance and it was denied AND I STILL HAVE NOT HAD ONE MEETING WITH THE NEW CHAIR!! They are all about billing you. Steps taken to resolve informally I've tried communicating with everyone and asking for meetings and I'm getting nowhere and no guidance like what I had.