Advising
Regular consultations between the Ph.D. student and advisor are an essential means to encourage timely and scrupulous completion of the dissertation. Both student and advisor should be responsible for seeing that such meetings take place on a regular basis. (Council of Graduate Schools:21) A good rule of thumb might be biweekly consultations between adviser and student.

Financial Assistance | UNC Graduate School Teaching Fellowships and Funding
Information on supporting your doctoral study through assistantships, outside funding, contract teaching and student loans.

Student's Committee
The student’s Chair and Committee Members advise the student about the dissertation proposal and the written and oral segments of the qualifying examination. The committee approves the final dissertation proposal, oversees completion of the dissertation, approves the dissertation, and conducts the final oral examination on the dissertation.

Administrative Structure
Function of the doctoral chair, program committee and administrative secretary