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The Slate Data and User Permissions request form is required to access prospective, applicants, and/or admitted student data. Click the question mark icon for help. Data will only be released in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and applicable LSU policies, and not all requests will meet these criteria.


This form is only for use by LSU faculty and staff Slate users to report any issues or troubleshooting assistance.


A student who believes they have received an Admissions Hold in error can request a review here.


Request to defer semester of entry for admitted students. Department must support the deferral for all admitted students.


This form is for the LSU Faculty, Staff, and Students to submit requests for Mainframe account merges, report missing LSU 89 IDs and emails, and request name changes and consolidation of applicant records.


Form to be filled out by graduate faculty for defense results.


Students must have earned 9 hours of graduate residence credit in a degree program at LSU and be in academic good standing before submitting this form. Please attach form to this request.


Credit for individual courses taken at LSU more than five years before the termination of a program may be revalidated by the student’s graduate committee through an examination. Please attach form to this request.


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For faculty and staff use only. Master's student's committee signs the form when the student's thesis has been approved by the committee. Submit completed form by email as a PDF to gradsvcs@lsu.edu.


Deferral request which requires approval.


Form accessible to faculty to obtain to submit to the graduate school for their master student's thesis approval.


This form is only for use by LSU Online Faculty & Staff Slate users to report any issues or troubleshooting assistance.


This form is only used for newly admitted graduate students.


Appeal request for regular admission for an international student


Please upload your letters of recommendation here.


This form must be submitted to The Graduate School three weeks prior to the defense date or by current semester deadline for graduation.


A student who is not listed as first author of a previously published, jointly written article used as part of his or her dissertation must submit this form to the LSU Graduate School prior to uploading the dissertation to Digital Commons. Please attach form to this request.


Form to request a defense date change.


This form is to Request for Degree Candidate Deletion or Title Change Form.