The week's events
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Get Stuff Done with GROW Get Stuff Done with GROW
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September 16, 2025Are you having a hard time getting things off your to do list? Would you benefit from a dedicated space and being around others to find motivation and productivity? If so, please join us in a structured community space for supporting goal achievement. We will start at 2pm with a brief time of connecting and sharing goals.
We will then have two sessions of about 50-60 minutes where everyone will work on their individual goals with a 10-minute break in between. You can come for one or both sessions or just stop in at any point. We will offer a hybrid option upon request.
Please reach out to Clara Graucob, GROW GA, for more information at graucobc@msu.edu. Whether it’s your dissertation, classwork, emails, a crafting project, or brushing up your CV, let’s help each other Get Stuff Done!
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Small Changes, BIG Difference Makers: Strategies That Inspire Instructor and Student Success Small Changes, BIG Difference Makers: Strategies That Inspire Instructor and Student Success
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September 17, 2025Enter ‘student success’ and ‘faculty success’ into a search engine and you’ll find that there are about three times as many ‘student success’ results as ‘faculty success’ results. To say student success is a hot topic and central to our work as educators is clear and evident. Some, however, would argue that higher education cannot increase student success without focusing on faculty success, including equitable, engaged, active learning strategies that are successful for students and instructors. In other words, we need to focus on instructor and student success together. During this session you will have an opportunity to learn about strategies, resources, and tools [including those suggested by students and some created by instructors] that GTAs can easily, and with minimal time, integrate into their teaching practices.
Facilitator: Mary Beth Heeder, Sr. Consultant and Project Manager for Student Learning and Success; Arts & Humanities Health and Wellbeing [AHHW] Program Co-Director and Instructor, College of Arts and Letters
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AGEP Learning Community Meeting AGEP Learning Community Meeting
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September 18, 2025The Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) at Michigan State University (MSU) was started with funding from the National Science Foundation. MSU AGEP supports recruitment, retention, and graduation of underrepresented students in doctoral programs of the natural and social sciences, mathematics, engineering and the humanities. The MSU AGEP Learning Community is an informal environment where students from varying disciplines can gather, share their research in a 10-minute presentation, or discover that their graduate toils are not unusual. Those in attendance are privy to information regarding fellowships, career opportunities, even summer internships, pertaining to the group.
RSVP for AGEP Learning Community meetings here: AGEP Learning Community Meeting Registration
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Annual Graduate Program Directors Orientation Annual Graduate Program Directors Orientation
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September 19, 2025The Graduate School is holding the Annual Graduate Program Directors (GPDs) Orientation primarily to assist new GPDs with transitioning into their new role and responsibilities. Current GPDs are also welcome and are encouraged to attend.
The program will be held in Room 110 Chittenden Hall with the program running from 9:00 – 11:45am. If your schedule allows, please consider coming at 8:30am to enjoy coffee and connecting with other GPDs and the Graduate School Staff and/or join us for lunch after the event. More information will be coming later. Please save the date.
Register here using Microsoft Forms
Graduate School Write-In Graduate School Write-In
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September 19, 2025***This session will be held in Bessey Hall 300 ***
Graduate School Write-Ins are co-sponsored by the Graduate School and The Writing Center at MSU. The write-ins are hosted and facilitated to provide writers with an opportunity to write in a shared writing space where other writers are present, and a writing center consultant/staff member is present to provide consultations for writers who would like to have a consultation appointment during the session.
Along with this, the write-ins provide an opportunity for facilitators to promote and share information about upcoming events hosted by the Graduate School, Writing Center, and other campus partners such as the University Outreach and Engagement Office and to provide resources and information that can be used to form graduate writing groups, have writing center appointments or attend workshops (provided by the Graduate School) cater to graduate students based on goals they may share during the write in.
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*Food and activities are based on registration numbers. Please note that your registration is a commitment to attend.
