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Meeting Dates and Location
December 3-6, 2014
Grand Hyatt
Washington, DC
Annual Meeting participants will explore important issues in graduate education. Enjoy a unique forum to meet leaders in your field and exchange ideas and information. Graduate deans; associate and assistant deans; faculty and staff from colleges and universities; association, federal and state agency, and other education-related administrators; graduate students, and others interested in graduate education are welcome.
Pre-meeting workshops and the CGS opening dinner and reception kick off the meeting on December 3. The meeting continues December 4-6, with plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, annual awards ceremony, and the LaPidus Luncheon lecture. Exhibits also will be available to meeting attendees, December 4-5.
The theme of this year's meeting is "Promise, Perspective and Potential in Graduate Education." The annual meeting will explore our claims for the value of graduate education and the importance of understanding our contexts and our capacity to deliver on this promise.
Plenary and Concurrent Sessions
Flow of Chinese grad students to U.S. slows
Thursday, August 21, 2014
For years, U.S. university administrators have worried that China’s massive investment in higher education would eventually mean fewer Chinese students seeking to earn advanced science and engineering degrees at their institutions. A new survey from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) hints that the time may be approaching.
Surge of Indian Grad Students
Friday, August 22, 2014
CGS President Suzanne T. Ortega tells Inside Higher Ed that data from the 2014 CGS International Graduate Admissions report show a robust applicant pool for U.S. graduate institutions. As growth continues in the number of admission offers to students from India and Brazil, the long-run of increases from China has ended, meaning that U.S. graduate schools cannot rely on one or two countries alone to achieve continuous enrollment growth.
After Years of Going Up and Up, Graduate-School Offers to Chinese Students Flatten
Thursday, August 21, 2014
After nearly a decade of double-digit increases, American graduate schools probably will not have a record number of students from China in this fall’s incoming class.
Fourth year of 9% growth in US grad school admissions
Thursday, August 21, 2014
The Professionals in International Education (PIE) News talks with CGS's Suzanne T. Ortega and Jeff Allum about trends in international graduate enrollment, including the 9 percent growth in offers of admission for 2014. As in the prior year, rates of growth from China have stagnated, while offers of admission to students from India and Brazil showed increased impressively.
Webinar: NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2014
CGS members are invited to register for an upcoming webinar.
NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2014
2:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern, Tuesday ...
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2014 CGS New Deans Institute & Summer Workshop
CGS Summer Workshop and New Deans Institute Final Program
Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2014 CGS New Deans Institute and Summer Workshop 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: Governance and Organization
Robert Augustine (1.81 MB)
Jeannine Blackwell (291 KB)
Session III: Budget and Staff Management Strategies
Barbara Knuth (272 KB)
Pamela Stacks (117 KB)
James Wimbush (271 KB)
Session IVA: Political Engagement
Steven Matson (275 KB)
Session IVB: Graduate Admissions and Financing
Edelma Huntley (806 KB)
Carol Shanklin (92 KB)
Session V: Program Quality Assessment
Mark J T Smith (782 KB)
Janet Weiss (1,005 KB)
Summer Workshop Presentations
ProQuest Breakfast Meeting
Austin McLean (1.41 MB)
Plenary II: The Future of Accreditation: Implications for Universities and Their Graduate Schools
Judith Eaton (954 KB)
ETS Breakfast Meeting
David Payne (941 KB)
Plenary III: Leading Campus Initiatives in Professional Development
Barbara Knuth (954 KB)
Frances Leslie (904 KB)
Allison Sekuler (3.62 MB)
Allison Sekuler's "Prezi" version
Writing a Winning ETS/CGS Award Proposal
Lunaire Ford (971 KB)
Jeffery Gibeling (214 KB)
Technical Workshop: Advocacy: Getting Beyond Awareness and Taking Action
Maureen Grasso (1.08 MB)
Maureen Grasso's Second Presentation (776 KB)
Julie Shroyer (668 KB)
CGS Annual Meeting Luncheons
CGS Awards Luncheon
On Thursday, December 3, the Annual CGS Awards Luncheon will honor the exemplary work of graduate students and graduate schools. Recipients of the Gustave Arlt Award, the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertations Awards, and the CGS/ETS Award will be announced.
LaPidus Luncheon
On Friday, December 4, the annual LaPidus Luncheon will be held. Established to honor the late Jules LaPidus, the past-president of the Council of Graduate Schools, the intent of the Luncheon is to provide a perspective of graduate education from a creative and visionary thinker.
Graduate Skills Survey
Thursday, July 31, 2014
A short announcement about CGS's upcoming pilot study of the professional development needs of STEM graduate students, with support from a grant by the National Science Foundation.
Live-tweeting the CGS Summer Workshop
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