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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That intentionality makes an impact on the lives of talented students who may not fully understand the possibilities of graduate school as well as what is needed to find a relevant program, apply and then succeed. Project upGRADS, which is funded by a federal grant, aims to improve access to and success in graduate education.

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2025 MIT Research SLAM to award $10k in prizes

CAPD

Thanks to generous support from the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) and the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) , the Research Slam planning team recently announced that $10,000.00 in prizes would be awarded to finalists at the 2025 MIT Research Slam! for 1st place $1,500.00 for 2nd place $750.00 for 3rd place $500.00

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It goes back to CEED workshops where they gave us mentorship skills.” Colucci-Chang’s story illustrates the “beauty of the pipeline,” says Sanders, whose current role involves ensuring Virginia Tech has a concerted, broad effort to reach out to underrepresented communities to make sure students are prepared for higher education.

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ChatGPT and AI in post-graduate education

Teaching Matters Online Learning

in our EFI course Text Remix and in workshops on creative writing. During the last year we have been using both ChatGPT and its pre-cursors – hard to believe it was only released at the end of November last year! –

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Personal finance on your mind this tax season?

CAPD

If so, check out the following resources from the Office of Graduate Education to help you manage your personal finance: Financial Investing Seminar Series A three-part seminar series on Zoom for graduate students interested in learning more about investing, in conjunction with Fidelity Investments. and MA tax returns.

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2024 Path of Professorship builds up women in academia

CAPD

On November 18-19, 2023 CAPD and the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) successfully organized the 18 th annual Path of Professorship program. Path of Professorship is a 2-day workshop for women interested in pursuing academic careers. In attendance were 38 PhD students and 30 Postdoctoral fellows.

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Mentors should be gate openers, not gatekeepers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” The federally funded McNair Scholars program supports first-generation students from families within the federal low-income threshold and those from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups in graduate education.