Following her presentation at the CGS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, December 4, University of California System President Janet Napolitano was heading to Capitol Hill to advocate for the importance of graduate education. More administrators need to do the same, she said, imploring those in attendance to move beyond the comfort of the “echo chamber” and the “coalition of the willing" to a wider audience of policy makers and the general public.

Enrollment growth at U.S. graduate schools is increasingly coming from India, the Wall Street Journal reports. International students now make up 17 percent of all U.S. graduate students, according to data from the 2014 CGS International Graduate Admissions Survey, Phase III: Final Offers of Admission and Enrollment.

CGS President Suzanne Ortega speaks with Inside Higher Ed about the diversification of graduate enrollments playing out through international admissions trends in 2014.

For the first time since the council's reports began, in 2004, first-time graduate enrollment by Chinese students in graduate programs at American universities has dropped from the level the year before.

Citing data from the latest CGS International Graduate Admissions survey, the Washington Post reports that 17 percent of all graduate students in U.S. graduate institutions come from other countries, up from 14.5 percent in 2012.

BusinessWeek calls out the latest findings from the 2014 CGS International Graduate Admissions Survey, Phase III: Final Offers of Admission and Enrollment, including how new students from India are offsetting declines in first-time enrollment among students from China.

Inside Higher Ed discusses preliminary results of CGS' Doctoral Initiative on Minority Attrition and Completion (DIMAC) project, which were presented at the annual meeting of the Institute on Teaching and Learning. The complete report of DIMAC findings is expected to be released in December 2014.

Writing for the Carpe Careers blog at Inside Higher Ed, senior research associate at Harvard Law School, Melanie Sinche, discusses the 'undeniable' need for comprehensive data on PhD career pathways. CGS's Best Practice project in this area is uniquely poised to address this need, Sinche notes.

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2013 Annual Meeting Program

Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2013 CGS 53rd Annual Meeting 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.

Pre-Meeting Workshop Presentations

Fundraising as a Critical Instrument for Improving Graduate Education
Steven Matson (766 KB)
Lisa Tedesco and Katie Busch (1.25 MB)

Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs-Doctoral
Nancy Busch (161 KB)
Barbara Knuth (1.62 MB)
Henning Schroeder (474 KB)

Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs-Master's
Robert Augustine (4.40 MB)
Maria Di Stefano (1.40 MB)
Susan Pocotte (745 KB)

Technology Solutions for Tracking Student Progress
Nancy Marcus (910 KB)
William Russel (860 KB)

Engaging Social Medial to Improve Graduate School Services
Karen DePauw (1.70 MB)
Karen Klomparens (694 KB)

Addressing Challenging Graduate Student Situations: Comprehensive Approaches and Techniques
Lee Bird and Sheryl Tucker (722 KB)

Legal Issues
Daniel Park (978 KB)

Fostering Career and Professional Development: Mentoring Across the Student, Faculty, and Institutional Divides
Henry Campa and Judith Stoddart (722 KB)

Graduate School's Role in Financial Aid
Charles Caramello (4.67 MB)
Paul Gemperline (120 KB)
Carol Hartupee (1.26 MB)

Achieving Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Excellence: Approaches that Work
Alycia Mosley-Austin (1 MB)
 

Advocating on Behalf of Graduate Education
Maureen Grasso (795 KB)
Julie Shroyer (1.19 MB)
Pamela Stacks (95 KB)

Concurrent Sessions Presentations

Supporting Inclusiveness in Graduate Education
Brenda McComb (534 KB)
Lisa Tedesco (164 KB)

The Professional Science Master's: Retrospective and Prospective
Carol Lynch, James Sterling and David King (877 KB)

Structuring Interdisciplinary Programs
Maura Borrego (725 KB)
Jeffery Gibeling (1.05 MB)
Vivek Venkatesh (819 MB)

Challenges of Innovation in Doctoral Education
David Olan (90 KB)

Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Graduate Schools: Guidance on How ACA's Employer Mandate and Reporting Provisions Impact Your School
Charles Hinkle (815 KB)

Marketing Master's Programs in Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions
Gerardo Gonzalez (996 KB)
Kathleen Kitto (2.92 MB)
Amanda Thomas (425 MB)

Increasing the Success of Underrepresented STEM PhD Students
Karen Butler-Purry (502 KB)
Frances Leslie (760 KB)
Lakshmi Reddi (559 KB)
Peter Weber (165 KB)

Transforming the EdD: Making it the Degree of Choice for Professional Practitioners
Jill A. Perry (4.73 MB)

Streamlining Administrative Functions at Master's Institutions
Jennifer Keane-Dawes (510 KB)
Gerald Pogatshnik (146 KB)

The Future of U.S. Science and Engineering: Graduate Education for Tomorrow
Charles Taber (350 KB)

Completion and Attrition in STEM Master's Programs
R. William Ayres and Jerry Weinberg (693 KB)

Recent Studies on Career Outcomes for Graduate Students
Lesley Wilson (347 KB)

Preparing Graduate Students to Assess Student Learning
Laura Chesak (491 KB)
Christopher Kello (779 KB)

Plenary Sessions Presentation

Social Networking: Its Power and Limitations for Serving Graduate Education
James Fowler (3.8 MB)

Sponsored Breakfast Presentation

Presentation from Educational Testing Service Breakfast
David Payne and Eileen Tyson (1.41 MB)