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Description
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The Graduate and
Professional Student Senate and University of Washington
President McCormick have invited graduate students to
participate in a series of hour-long discussions on the
future of graduate and professional education at the U.W.
The product of these discussions will become part of the
University's conversation about the future.
There will be five
conversations and one lecture which will address the
following topics:
- "Information Technology
in Graduate Education: Research, Teaching, and Learning"
focuses on the state of instructional learning, research,
and teaching opportunities in students' fields. Students
will discuss what the U.W. will have to do to remain or
become prominent in students' disciplines for research,
teaching and learning;
- "Professional
Development and Mentoring" surrounds what the U.W. needs
to do to make professional development and mentoring more
meaningful for the future and asks whether changes in
students' fields and in the job market have impacted the
value of their professional development or
mentoring;
- "Graduate Student Labor"
is centered on what changes the University will have to
adopt to ensure quality in and of graduate student labor
(e.g., TAs, RAs, and SAs);
- "Mutual Responsibility -
The University and the State" asks what the future
relationship between the state and this public
institution will look like. Also, students will discuss
what future mutual responsibilities will the state and
the University have to one another and how will the U.W.
occupy a significant place in the future of Washington
state; and
- "Diversity in Graduate
Education" asks what is the future of diversity within
students' disciplines and where it needs to go. Students
will also be asked what their department, school, the
graduate school, or the University can do to further
these goals.
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