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61st Annual Meeting
Meeting Dates and Location
December 1-4, 2021
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
New Orleans, LA
The CGS Annual Meeting was held December 1-4, 2021 in New Orleans. The 300+ attendees enjoyed a safe, productive, engaging, and thought provoking event. Annual meeting participants explored a variety of important issues in graduate education with topics ranging from mentoring to articulating the value of formal degrees to reinventing graduate STEM education.
Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2021 CGS 61st Annual Meeting are below. Presentations are in chronological order by each category. Presentations are offered as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
Pre-Meeting Workshop Presentations
Mentoring To Support Diverse Students and Careers
William Karpus, Ambika Mathur, and Paula McClain
Improving Marketing and Recruitment Strategies For Master’s Programs
Brian Carolan, Andrea Golato, and Ranjit Koodali
Data and Evidence Inspired Approaches Toward Graduate Student Well-being
Karen Butler-Purry, Elizabeth Klonoff, and Robin Yates
ProQuest Breakfast
Big Questions, Big Data and ProQuest Dissertations And Theses
Jason Owen-Smith and Gilia Smith
IELTS USA Breakfast
The Challenges of International Teaching Assistants and How to Support Their Transition into the Classroom
Kayla Landers, Marianne Menius, and Misty Wilson
Concurrent Sessions Presentations
More Than The Sum of Their Parts?: Articulating The Value of Formal Degrees
Bonnie Ferri, Clay Gloster, and Douglas Woods
Creating a Graduate Enrollment Ecosystem: Attracting, Engaging, and Retaining Your Best-Fit Applicants - Sponsored by Liaison International
Jillian Baer, David Daleke, and Algerian Hart
Mentoring Master's Students
Reginald Ellis, Jennifer Roberts, and Jerry Weinberg
Integrating Networking Skills Into Humanities Phd Programs
Amanda Bryant-Friedrich, Robin Garrell, and Thomas Jeitschko
Bridging The Gap: Deferrals, Leaves, and Skipped Cohorts
Scott Adler, Susan Ettner, and Mary Jo Finney
STEAM and The Future of Interdisciplinary Research: Engine of Innovation or a Bunch of Hot Air?
James Antony, Natasha Croom, and Elizabeth Wentz
An Outcome-Based Proposal for the Future of the Phd: We’re All In This Together
NAGS organized session
Gina Beltrán and Bradley Nelson
Building A New Future for Virtual Academic Support and Professional Development for Graduate Students: Investigating A Consortium Model
E. Alana James, Scott Lanyon, Sarah Larsen, and Joseph Oppong
Reinventing Graduate STEM Education
Karen S. Coats, Peter J. Harries, Nirmala Kannankutty, and Kim LaScola Needy
Seeing the Future We Used to See Here: Compassion and Commitment to International Students
Angela Pool-Funai, M.J.T. Smith, and Melissa Sturge-Apple
Understanding Challenges and Impacts of Caregiving: Supporting Students at a Time of Transition
Susan Carvalho, Preselfannie McDaniels, and Michael Solomon
Are My Professional Graduate Programs Financially Sustainable? A DIY Guide for Deans MAGS organized session
Ricky Hull and Jennifer Ziegler
Understanding The Graduate Student Mindset: Insights From a New Survey of 2,000+ Prospective Graduate Students - Sponsored by EAB
Will Lamb and Ashley Walker Colquitt
Lightning Round Sessions
Student-Centered Language Assessment: Lowering Barriers and Increasing Opportunities - Sponsored by Duolingo English Test
State of the Education Market: Trends and Insights in Key Master's Disciplines - Sponsored by Wiley Education Services
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