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Reminder: Pick Up Your Graduate Students from the Dry Cleaners Before Graduation
December 15, 2016 @ 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Presenter: Mark A. Schuster
Co-Presenters: Danya Weintraub, Ph.D., Karima Woodyard, Courtland James, Mukul Acharya, Kevin Ewell
Are we doing our best to provide robust and contemporary services for our graduate students? Or, do we simply drop them off at their departments, like dry cleaning, and pick them up at graduation? Rutgers University Student Affairs is being more intentional by creating a new Graduate Student Life Office for our 9,000 graduate students. This session encourages an innovative national discussion to examine graduate student needs in new ways to better serve them. Independent inquiry does not have to mean disconnection. This session will explore mechanisms for student affairs to use interdisciplinary collaborations with students, faculty, campus partners and deans across campuses and departments to help graduate students thrive as scholars and global citizens.
There will be an interactive discussion between participants to discuss what is happening on their campuses and a discussion of action steps needed on each campus to be more intentional and supportive of the graduate student experience.