Steve Tippins explains that your dissertation committee evaluates your finished work against doctoral standards, not guide you through writing it. You're your own project manager. Committee members are busy faculty hired to assess, not mentor.
Your dissertation committee doesn't exist to help you write your dissertation. It exists to decide whether the dissertation you wrote meets doctoral standards. And that's why so many doctoral students feel stuck. They're waiting for guidance that the system was never designed to give. Committee members are experts in their field, but they're also busy faculty with teaching loads, research agendas, and administrative work. So their job isn't to manage your project, it's just to evaluate it. The students who finish fastest understand this early. You are the project manager of your dissertation. Come and help, and we will send you the link to our free dissertation Help community. You've got this!
