At 3:16 PM -0400 3/30/10, David W. Fenton wrote:
This has nothing to do with anything but producing a document. Dissertations are printed documents and the source files or formats are not relevant to the institutions involved.
Quite possibly no longer true. Or at least no longer true at some schools. Certainly it was true as recently as the '70s, when I was in grad school, and the expense of printing and binding was just one more expense. (A good friend, and English professor whose dissertation was on "Farce," discovered that there was actually no requirement at Indiana that dissertations had to be bound in black, although they all were, and had his bound in white!) I think this university has gone to electronic files for theses and dissertations (although I'm not 100% sure).
When something THAT traditional starts changing, you know that the technology has REALLY changed!!! (But they still require medieval robes and hoods for graduation; go figure!)
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