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Directors and Coordinators of Graduate Studies

Directors and Coordinators of Graduate Studies . February 20, 2014. Welcome Reports and Updates Administrative (Franke) Programmatic ( C aramello) Coffee Break Discussion: Student Success Initiatives. AGENDA. Welcome and Introductions. Reports and Updates. Administrative. New GS Staff.

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Directors and Coordinators of Graduate Studies

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  1. Directors and Coordinators of Graduate Studies February 20, 2014

  2. Welcome Reports and Updates Administrative (Franke) Programmatic (Caramello) Coffee Break Discussion: Student Success Initiatives AGENDA

  3. Welcome and Introductions

  4. Reports and Updates Administrative

  5. New GS Staff

  6. GS Projects Update • Hobsons Apply Yourself • Hobsons Connect – CRM System • Student tracking system/APRA • Electronic forms for petitions and waivers • Website development

  7. Graduate School Policies and Practices Official and unofficial transcripts International applicants financial submission and review Rightsizing Doctoral Programs

  8. Admissions

  9. Reports and Updates Programmatic

  10. Rising Quality Indicators • Average 10-year completion rate for doctoral students increased from 61.8% in 2012 to 62.9% in 2013. National average is 56.6%.   • Median doctoral TTD dropped from 5.76 years in 2012 to 5.3 years in 2013. • As reported by NSF, UMD ranks 2nd among AAU institutions in African American graduates for the 2008-2012. (U Michigan is 1st with 145 graduates; UMD is 2nd with 128.) • As reported by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, UMD ranks 1st among AAU institutions in African American doctoral graduates in 2013.

  11. Diversity Initiatives • NSF AGEP Award of $1.75M to UMD, UMB, UMBC for PROMISE: Transforming MD • Dissertation House in Winter Term and Summer Session • Ronald E. McNair Graduate Fellowships: year four • Preparing URM Students at USG for Graduate Studies: year two • Graduate Preview Day, October 29, 2014 • Conference on Fisher v. U of Texas at Austin (April 2, 2014)

  12. International Initiatives • UMD/UT Joint International Project in Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Bioscience: 20 scientists plus students • UMD/UCC Joint Graduate Seminar and Research Project on Frederick Douglass (Spring 2014) • UMD/Chilean Universities Joint Graduate Seminar and Research Project on Literature and Memory (Fall 2014) • Universitas 21 – global network of research universities (Deans of GSs meeting in Chile in April 2014) • Proposal to Argentine Ministry of Education for joint STEM research initiatives with Argentine universities • Trips scheduled for Spring 2014: Chile, Hong Kong, Taipei, Macao • International Interns (Denmark and Andean Countries) • International Graduate Research Fellowships (IGRF)--20 students from 5 colleges (more pending) • International Conference Student Support Awards (ICSSA)—292 students from 11 colleges • Graduate School Tax Preparation Assistance Program: 412 students in person and 1,094 students on line—784 with average refund of $714 (Spring 2013)

  13. Communications Goals • Enhance reciprocal extramural and intramural communication • Develop comprehensive strategy with clear brand and unified look and voice Means • Hire communications officer • Optimize status of GS as its own “beat” in UR • Develop new website, social media, electronic, and print presences • Create and maintain website as locus for communication and conversation

  14. Development Goals • Build endowment for graduate fellowships commensurate with ambitions • Engage in and promote robust fund raising among alumni and other donors • Focus on both campus and college fellowships Means • Establish GS Office for Development and Alumni Relations • Succeed 20% Development Officer with full-time DO • Create matching incentive programs for endowments • Ensure that graduate fellowships are a central goal of next capital campaign

  15. Student Success: Graduate Writing • Graduate School Writing Center – 5100B McKeldin Library • Writing Fellows for individual tutoring (12-15 fellows) • Peer Writing Groups (Native Speakers) • Facilitated Language Learner Peer Writing Groups (ESL) • English Editing for International Graduate Students Program (EEIGS) • Discipline-specific writing and research workshops • Writing work groups • Create pyramidal structure for graduate writing initiatives

  16. Student Success: TA Training • Office for Graduate Teaching and Learning in GS • Graduate Council Working Group on TA Training • Ongoing collaboration with CTE and Teaching and Learning Transformation Center • Develop pyramidal structure for TA Training

  17. Student Success: Multiple Career Paths • Career paths for PhD extend beyond the academy • Trainees prepared well for the academy, not for other career paths • Provide awareness of various career opportunities • Provide insight on applying to and interviewing for non-academic careers • Provide tools for success in the first years of any career • Engage faculty mentors and help them to help students • Graduate Council Working Group on multiple career paths • Develop pyramidal structure for multiple career paths

  18. Evolving Doctoral Degrees • Lead in imagining doctoral education for an evolving academy, for expanding career options, and for rapidly changing national and international circumstances • International opportunities • Preparation for multiple career paths • Rethink research and professional doctoral degrees • Curriculum, qualifying exams, and dissertation in fields with low completion rates, lengthy time • to degree, and lack of academic career opportunities • Professional doctoral degrees and perhaps unified sequence of professional graduate certificates, masters degrees, and doctoral degrees • New models for research and professional doctoral degrees for post-industrial, post-modern, global culture of the future • White paper in Graduate Council and report to President Loh

  19. Financial Literacy Workshops • Financial Literacy Workshops for Graduate Students • Inaugural workshop held November 23, 2013 • Two hours, seven speakers, 75 attendees • Next workshops held every Friday in April 2014. Location and times TBD. • Producing video of Financial Literacy Workshops for GS website • Available Summer 2014 to all graduate students

  20. New Student Orientation Orientation week: GS New Student Orientation, program orientations, Student Life Graduate Student Kickoff GS New Student Orientation, August 25, 2014, 9:30 am – 1 pm, Colony Ballroom, SSU Outdoor barbeque tentatively scheduled to follow Program orientations should be scheduled accordingly

  21. Coffee Break

  22. Open Discussion Student Success Initiatives

  23. Student Success Initiatives

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