‘Graduate Education’
Imagining America PAGE Conference April 28-29, 2011
Mar. 31, 2011—Update: This event has been postponed. Check with the Warren Center for updates. Imagining America will hold a two day symposium on publicly active graduate education at Vanderbilt University on April 28th and 29th, 2011. The first day of the workshop – Thursday, April 28th from 2 to 5pm – will be focused exclusively on...
Measurement of ‘Learning Outcomes’ Comes to Graduate School
Dec. 6, 2010—“I just know it in my bones” is the rationale some professors might give to explain how they know whether or not their students have learned, writes David Glenn in an article posted in the Chronicle of Higher Education. This article focuses in particular on graduate education, since even those programs that consist of more...
Should Doctoral Education in the Humanities Be a Marathon?
Apr. 20, 2010—The April 9th Chronicle Review includes an essay titled “Doctoral Education Shouldn’t Be a Marathon” by Lee Shulman, president emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In the essay, Shulman argues that doctoral education in the humanities could benefit from adopting some of the pedagogical practices of education in the professions (law,...
CIRTL Network Coffee Hour 4/21 – Academic Careers: Where Are Grads Going and Why?
Apr. 16, 2010—From our colleagues at the CIRTL Network: Join a CIRTL Network Online Coffee Hour April 21 at 2 pm CT (1 MT/3ET) a time to get together to informally talk with others throughout the CIRTL Network. Mark Connolly will be facilitating a discussion on: Academic careers: Where are grads going and why? Is being a...
One Professor’s Vision of Graduate Student Mentoring
Feb. 11, 2010—On February 2, 2010, the Center for Teaching held a conversation on teaching titled “Mentoring Graduate Students in the Sciences and Engineering” featuring three faculty panelists. After the session, one of the panelists, Isabel Gauthier, professor of psychology, wrote a one-page description of her “vision of graduate mentoring,” which she allowed the CFT to share. ...
Notes from Last Week’s “Mentoring Grad Students in the Sciences and Engineering” Session
Feb. 10, 2010—On February 2, 2010, the CFT held a conversation on teaching titled “Mentoring Graduate Students in the Sciences and Engineering” featuring three faculty panelists. At the start of the session, participants were asked to share questions they had about mentoring graduate students. Each question fell into one of five broad categories, listed below. Also listed...