Attendees of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) 2014 Annual Meeting were repeatedly exhorted to press for more legislative support for graduate institutions. Speakers issued a call to action for greater advocacy as state-by-state divestment in higher education shows little sign of reversing.

Science magazine spoke with University of California System President Janet Napolitano following her presentation at the 2014 CGS Annual Meeting to delve deeper into how graduate leaders can make the case for graduate schools in an environment of declining state support and competing federal funding priorities.

Janet Napolitano, University of California System President, and other speakers at the Council of Graduate Schools 54th Annual Meeting provided a call-to-action for greater advocacy of graduate education issues.

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.