CGS Summer Workshop and New Deans Institute Final Program

Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2015 CGS Summer Workshop and New Deans Institute are below. Presentations are in chronological order by each category. Presentations are offered as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. The file size is indicated after the name of each presenter.

New Deans Institute Presentations

Session II: Running a Graduate Organization: Nuts and Bolts
Karen Butler-Purry (290 KB)
Paul Gemperline (165 KB)

Session III: Budget and Staff Management Strategies
Barbara Knuth (260 KB)
Max Poole (421 KB)
James Wimbush (296 KB)

Session IV: Graduate Admissions and Financing Overview
Nancy Marcus (2.88 MB)
Carol Shanklin (1,004 KB)

Session V: Advocacy 101
Steven Matson (961 KB)

Summer Workshop Presentations

Plenary I: Is the Master's the New Baccalaureate?
Philippe-Edwin Bélanger (1.10 MB)
Kinchel Doerner (390 KB)
James Goodnight (601 KB)

Plenary Follow-On: The Role of Master's Education in Regional Economic Development
Janet Rutledge (210 KB)
James Sterling (984 KB)

ProQuest Breakfast Meeting
Austin McLean (1.77 MB)

Plenary II: Making the Case for Graduate Education with Your President and Board
Paul Ferguson (210 KB)

ETS Breakfast Meeting
David Payne (1.39 MB)

Plenary III: Graduate Education and the Changing Legal Landscape
Mackenzie Wilfong (2.95 MB)

Innovations in Graduate Professional Development: Lessons Learned form the BEST Program
George Roger Chalkley (542 KB)
Barbara Knuth (2.23 MB)
Patricia Labosky (586 KB)
Ambika Mathur (898 KB)

Technical Workshop: Advocacy: Getting Beyond Awareness and Taking Action
Maureen Grasso (596 KB)
John Keller (259 KB)

CGS Summer Workshop and New Deans Institute Final Program

Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2015 CGS Summer Workshop and New Deans Institute are below. Presentations are in chronological order by each category. Presentations are offered as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. The file size is indicated after the name of each presenter.

New Deans Institute Presentations

Session II: Running a Graduate Organization: Nuts and Bolts
Karen Butler-Purry (290 KB)
Paul Gemperline (165 KB)

Session III: Budget and Staff Management Strategies
Barbara Knuth (260 KB)
Max Poole (421 KB)
James Wimbush (296 KB)

Session IV: Graduate Admissions and Financing Overview
Nancy Marcus (2.88 MB)
Carol Shanklin (1,004 KB)

Session V: Advocacy 101
Steven Matson (961 KB)

Summer Workshop Presentations

Plenary I: Is the Master's the New Baccalaureate?
Kinchel Doerner (390 KB)
James Goodnight (601 KB)

Plenary Follow-On: The Role of Master's Education in Regional Economic Development
Janet Rutledge (210 KB)
James Sterling (984 KB)

ProQuest Breakfast Meeting
Austin McLean (1.77 MB)

Plenary II: Making the Case for Graduate Education with Your President and Board
Paul Ferguson (210 KB)

ETS Breakfast Meeting
David Payne (1.39 MB)

Plenary III: Graduate Education and the Changing Legal Landscape
Mackenzie Wilfong (2.95 MB)

Innovations in Graduate Professional Development: Lessons Learned form the BEST Program
George Roger Chalkley (542 KB)
Barbara Knuth (2.23 MB)
Patricia Labosky (586 KB)
Ambika Mathur (898 KB)

Technical Workshop: Advocacy: Getting Beyond Awareness and Taking Action
Maureen Grasso (596 KB)
John Keller (259 KB)

Following the 2015 webinar on Winning Strategies for Diversity and Inclusion, CGS presenters shared their responses to several questions that were not addressed in the alloted time. A recording of the webinar presentation is available at Webinar Recordings. For more details about the ETS/CGS Award and application process, please contact Anna Naranjo.

Q: Can a proposal to the ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Graduate Education propose to enhance or expand an existing program? Will a proposal be more competitive if it proposes to create a new program?

A: As the announcement for the award states, this award is for “promising efforts in initiation or scaling up innovations in graduate education that occur from admission through successful completion of a degree program.” We welcome proposals that wish to expand on existing programs. For example, 2010 winner Michigan State University brought together four projects begun under previous grant programs. No preference is given to proposals that create a new program.

Q:  Are proposals that focus on master’s level students competitive?

A:  Yes. Eastern Illinois University, a master’s-focused institution, won in 2011; Missouri University of Science and Technology was the runner-up in 2014. The University of Illinois at Chicago (2012 winner) proposed a program aimed at incoming master’s students.

Q: Are proposals that focus on one college/program welcome or should the proposal impact all/most graduate students on a campus?

A:  We will accept proposals that focus on one department. Some universities’ proposals have been geared toward a select number of departments (STEM at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Michigan State wished to focus on five to 10 departments), while others were university-wide. Some universities chose to pilot the program with a goal of moving to a campus-wide program.

The current year description, synopses of past winning proposals, FAQs, etc. can be found at the ETS/CGS Award page.

In an interview with CCTV, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) highlighted key findings of the 2015 CGS International Graduate Admissions Survey, Preliminary Applications. According to the report, applications to U.S. graduate programs from prospective students from China were down 2% this year. Nevertheless, China remains the largest sending country to U.S. graduate schools: one in three international graduate students studying in the U.S. are Chinese. 

Upcoming Webinars

Holistic Review in Graduate Admissions

Tuesday, February 22 at 2pm EST

Financial Education: Results and Implications for University Programs

TBA

See the main Webinars page for more details.

Foreign students' applications to American graduate schools climbed by 2% this year, driven in part by continued growth in applications from India, according to survey results released today by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). Although the overall increase of 2% represents a slower rate of growth compared to the 10% gain recorded last year, CGS's Jeff Allum said this may not be a cause for concern. “We saw two percent growth two years ago, and then we learned that did not impact the overall growth in the offers of admission and first-time enrollment,” Allum said. The application numbers included in today's report are preliminary, and the council will release survey data on final application numbers, offers of admission and new international enrollments later this year.

Applications from prospective international students to US postgraduate programs increased for the 10th-consecutive year, led by double-digit growth in India, according to the Council of Graduate Schools' (CGS) 2015 International Graduate Admissions Survey: Preliminary Applications. Growth in international applications for the fall 2015 term was 2% higher than the year-ago period. However, the rate of increase has slowed by eight percentage points compared with last year.

Washington, DC — The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) has announced that Edelma Huntley, Dean of the Graduate School and Chief Research Officer at Appalachian State University from 2006 to 2014, has been named the CGS Dean-in-Residence for 2015-16. Dr. Huntley brings to the post significant experience leading graduate education, including serving as President of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) from 2012 to 2014, and serving two terms on the CGS Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Huntley will join CGS on August 1. 

The CGS Dean-in-Residence program was created to infuse a campus-based perspective and vision across a variety of the Council’s programs and initiatives. The Dean-in-Residence works on multiple projects aligned with his or her interests and the Council’s needs.

“Dr. Huntley has been at the forefront of national initiatives to develop professional master’s programs in arts and sciences, and she has supported students in these programs by creating additional research opportunities for them,” said CGS President Suzanne T. Ortega. “Her expertise in master’s education will greatly benefit CGS members, especially as the Council prepares to launch new research efforts in this area.”

In accepting the appointment, Huntley pointed to important issues in graduate education she will help the Council address. “CGS has been a valuable resource for me throughout my career, and I look forward with great excitement to participating more fully in the work that CGS is doing, particularly in preparing future faculty, preparing graduate students for careers outside the academy, and exploring new developments in master's education.”

As Dean of the Graduate School and Chief Research Officer at Appalachian State University, Huntley oversaw development of the institution’s first Professional Science Master’s programs, graduate certificates, dual degrees, and accelerated baccalaureate-to-master’s programs. She chaired a committee that envisioned and developed the Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics. Huntley also created the Graduate Research Associates Mentoring Program at Appalachian State, providing two years of support for promising master’s-level researchers to work with faculty mentors.

Dr. Huntley holds a PhD in Restoration and 18th Century British Literature from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. At Appalachian State, she was the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award and a campus-level, North Carolina Board of Governors Teaching Award.