Events in August 2021
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Grad Slate Training Grad Slate Training
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August 9, 2021Date:
Monday, August 9, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Zoom Webinar
The Graduate School will be offering training for the new admissions system, Slate. These sessions will be based on system functions that will be available on August 2, 2021 and include details on finalizing applications in GAMS.
After attending this session, users will be able to:
Search and view student applications
Record information on student interactions
Upload documents
Understand user security and rolesThese sessions will be an opportunity for you to view a live demo, ask questions and listen in on the questions of others for additional information and support.
The training sessions will be available on the following dates and times: (duplicate sessions – attend only one, no registration required): 7/27 @ 1:30PM, 7/29 @ 9:00AM, 8/9 @ 3:00PM
Aug 9, 2021 03:00 PMhttps://msu.zoom.us/j/99781729777Passcode: 289079
All of the trainings will be delivered via zoom webinar and will be recorded.
Application review and decision processing training will be offered in the future.
Category:
Professional Development
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Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 1) Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 1)
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August 13, 2021Date:
Friday, August 13, 2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Zoom
This interactive online writing workshop is designed to help you develop an individualized plan for graduate writing, especially comprehensive exams, dissertation proposals, and dissertations. Session 1 is generally designed for students in the early years of their PhD study.
In this 3-hour workshop, plans for time management and working with others, especially during these unprecedented times in higher education, will be the main focus. Participants will create academic timelines for their PhD work at MSU and discuss technologies and habits that can help them stay on task. Participants will also discuss how to manage the stress that often pervades the life of PhD students and how that stress might be particularly amplified during this year considering that we are collectively working through the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing racial and systematic injustice and police violence against the Black community.
Facilitators will help guide these discussions and share resources and strategies for overcoming writer's block and procrastination and adopting and maintaining productive practices to consider how to balance time management and prioritizing academic goals.
Additionally, discussion about selecting and working with committees will provide a space for sharing about and learning how to communicate with faculty members about research and writing.
A Zoom link will be shared with registrants prior to the date of the workshop.
Category:
Professional Development
Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 2) Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 2)
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August 13, 2021Date:
Friday, August 13, 2021 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Zoom
This interactive online writing workshop is designed to help you develop an individualized plan for graduate writing, especially comprehensive exams, dissertation proposals, and dissertations. Session 2 is designed for students in the latter years of their PhD study.
In this 3-hour workshop, the focus will be on developing and maintaining productive and effective writing processes and practices, especially during these unprecedented times in higher education and in society where we are collectively working through the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing racial and systematic injustice and police violence against the Black community.
Every PhD program at MSU requires comprehensive exams, dissertation proposals, and dissertations. In the workshop, participants will explore and share their current writing practices and be given practical writing and revision strategies. During the latter half of the workshop, participants will draft a plan for developing and completing their dissertations.
A Zoom link will be shared with registrants prior to the workshop.
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Professional Development
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International GTA Orientation International GTA Orientation
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August 18, 2021Date:
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 - 8:00am to 12:00pm
SAVE THE DATE!
Attention:All new International Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) starting in the Fall Semester 2021 or Spring Semester 2022.
Please plan on attending the International GTA Orientation on August 18, 2021.
Life & Teaching in the U.S., panel of Int'l GTAs, resources, community, OISS & GradSchool Support. Details available at https://grad.msu.edu/gtap
D2L Modules will be available about 10 days before the asynchronous sessions. Registration opens on April 15, 2021. For questions please contact Stefanie Baier at stbaier@msu.edu or at GTA@grd.msu.edu
Category:
Professional Development
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New GTA Institute New GTA Institute
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August 19, 2021Date:
Thursday, August 19, 2021 - 10:00am to 5:00pm
Save The Date!
Attention:All new Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) - domestic and international, starting in the Fall Semester 2021 or Spring Semester 2022
Please plan on attending the New GTA Institute on August 19, 2021.
Policies & Teaching, D2L, MSU, case studies, etc. Details available at https://grad.msu.edu/gtap
D2L Modules will be available about 10 days before the asynchronous sessions. Registration opens on April 15, 2021. For questions please contact Stefanie Baier at stbaier@msu.edu or at GTA@grd.msu.edu
Category:
Professional Development
Afghanistan Veterans Listening Sessions Afghanistan Veterans Listening Sessions
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August 19, 2021Date:
Thursday, August 19, 2021 - 3:00pm
Location:
Zoom
MSU Counseling and Psychiatric Services is running two listening sessions for any MSU vets would like to talk about recent events in Afghanistan. You do not have to have deployed to qualify. We aren’t checking military status as a condition to attend. If you’re reading this, you’re invited.
The listening session will be facilitated by CAPS professional counseling staff, but will not be inherently clinical or private, because of the group setting. If you would like individual private services, please contact Patrick Forystek, foryste3@msu.edu (additional contact information below).
Date: 8/19/2021Time: 3PM ESTZoom: https://msuhipaa.zoom.us/j/91669229569?pwd=SGZjNWZoeHlVMld6N0VkQkg2UW52QT09
Meeting ID: 916 6922 9569
Passcode: 493495
Date: 8/20/2021Time: 2:30PM ESTZoom: https://msuhipaa.zoom.us/j/94160046511
Meeting ID: N/A
Passcode: N/A
If you would like to attend, please complete this anonymous, two-question survey. Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeh3GklM_AP0twE80lgtX95WvaCZPLitjuficYijzq3A9vYBg/viewform
Patrick ForystekPronouns: he, him, hisCoordinator, Student Veterans Resource CenterMichigan State UniversityO: 517-884-5973
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Life and Well-Being
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GTA Pedagogy Workshops GTA Pedagogy Workshops
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August 20, 2021Date:
Friday, August 20, 2021 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
Save the Date!
Attention:All Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) - new and returning
Please plan on attending the Pedagogy Workshops on August 20, 2021.
Engaged Learning, Classroom Management, Assessment, Communicating with Students, Scientific Teaching. Details available at https://grad.msu.edu/gtap
D2L Modules will be available about 10 days before the asynchronous sessions. Registration opens on April 15, 2021. For questions please contact Stefanie Baier at stbaier@msu.edu or at GTA@grd.msu.edu
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Important Dates
Professional DevelopmentAfghanistan Veterans Listening Sessions Afghanistan Veterans Listening Sessions
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August 20, 2021Date:
Friday, August 20, 2021 - 2:30pm
Location:
Zoom
MSU Counseling and Psychiatric Services is running two listening sessions for any MSU vets would like to talk about recent events in Afghanistan. You do not have to have deployed to qualify. We aren’t checking military status as a condition to attend. If you’re reading this, you’re invited.
The listening session will be facilitated by CAPS professional counseling staff, but will not be inherently clinical or private, because of the group setting. If you would like individual private services, please contact Patrick Forystek, foryste3@msu.edu (additional contact information below).
Date: 8/19/2021Time: 3PM ESTZoom: https://msuhipaa.zoom.us/j/91669229569?pwd=SGZjNWZoeHlVMld6N0VkQkg2UW52QT09
Meeting ID: 916 6922 9569
Passcode: 493495
Date: 8/20/2021Time: 2:30PM ESTZoom: https://msuhipaa.zoom.us/j/94160046511
Meeting ID: N/A
Passcode: N/A
If you would like to attend, please complete this anonymous, two-question survey. Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeh3GklM_AP0twE80lgtX95WvaCZPLitjuficYijzq3A9vYBg/viewform
Patrick ForystekPronouns: he, him, hisCoordinator, Student Veterans Resource CenterMichigan State UniversityO: 517-884-5973
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Life and Well-Being
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ETD Deadline Day - US21 ETD Deadline Day - US21
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August 25, 2021Date:
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - 12:00am to 11:55pm
Location:
The deadline for FINAL APPROVAL of an electronic Thesis or Dissertation by the Graduate School is TODAY at 5:00 p.m. To accept a document for publishing on or before the deadline means that the student’s document has been reviewed by a graduate school employee, the document has been determined to be formatted correctly AND all required paperwork has been turned in to the Graduate School PRIOR TO the deadline date and time. Deadline day is not just the day that the document is to be submitted via ProQuest for the first time. It is the day where all of the requirements must be completed. Chances are, if a document is submitted on deadline day for the first time, the document will most likely be accepted for graduation in the next semester.
Students are encouraged to submit their document at least 2 weeks prior to the deadline. As long as the student has successfully defended the thesis or dissertation and has made the corrections that the committee requires, he or she may feel free to submit the document via the ProQuest website.
Students are highly encouraged to read and follow the Thesis and Dissertation information available on the Graduate School’s website at: https://grad.msu.edu/etd. This site gives instructions on formatting, required paperwork, and how to submit to ProQuest.
For Ph.D. students: The student’s GradPlan should be official and be as complete as possible prior to submitting to ProQuest.
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Important Dates
GTA TLC Virtual Lunch and Learn GTA TLC Virtual Lunch and Learn
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August 25, 2021Date:
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
https://msu.zoom.us/j/732599810
Please join us for our first GTA TLC Virtual Lunch and Learn of 2021-22
In this session new GTAs have the opportunity to connect with experienced GTAs about teaching, and can ask them anything about their journey, get some teaching tips, and learn about best practices.
https://msu.zoom.us/j/732599810
Meeting ID: 732 599 810 Passcode: GTAsTeach
Category:
Professional Development
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Graduate School Welcome and Resource Fair Graduate School Welcome and Resource Fair
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August 28, 2021Date:
Saturday, August 28, 2021 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Location:
Virtual & In-Person
This year, the Graduate School Welcome and Resource Fair will a hybrid virtual and in-person event.
Tune into the virtual program (9AM-12PM) here: https://grad.msu.edu/ResourceFair
Key timings to keep in mind include:
Orientation Workshop Webinars offered at 9AM, 9:30AM, & 10AM on Saturday, August 28th:Setting Expectations in Graduate Education
Well-Being and Graduate School: The Key to Your Success
Your Professional Development
Resource Fair featuring 25+ on and off-campus groups and organizations hosting Zoom meetings from 10:30AM to 12PM on Saturday, August 28th
Fall Welcome: Join us for an in-person socially distanced afternoon of fun, games, music and more at Benefactors Plaza from 2PM to 4PM.Category:
Life and Well-Being
