Events in November 2025
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Get Stuff Done with GROW Get Stuff Done with GROW
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November 3, 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!
Bounce Forward: Strategies for Resilience and Recovery Bounce Forward: Strategies for Resilience and Recovery
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November 3, 2025No matter how well they are doing, grad students often feel like it’s never enough, and living with that kind of pressure can lead to burnout. While you may not be able to eliminate stress, you can increase your capacity to manage it more effectively. This workshop will explore how small, intentional habits can lead to meaningful progress, long-term success, and a sustainable approach to work and life.
Email Meg Moore, GROW Director, at akehimeg@msu.edu, for more information.
Register Here
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COGS Coffee & Connection COGS Coffee & Connection
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November 4, 2025AI for Course Management: Techniques for Instructor Workflows AI for Course Management: Techniques for Instructor Workflows
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November 4, 2025This session covers practical ways to use AI for common course management tasks like organizing materials, building content, and managing grading workflows. We’ll provide you with robust examples and prompting techniques you can adapt right away.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Identify at least three ways AI can automate or streamline course management tasks.
Draft effective AI prompts for designing assignments, rubrics, and grading feedback.
Evaluate when and how to integrate AI tools into existing course workflows to save time without losing instructional quality.Facilitators
Sarah Freye, Instructional Designer, MSU IT - Educational Technology
Lisa Batchelder, Instructional Designer, MSU IT - Educational TechnologyETD Formatting Walk-In Help ETD Formatting Walk-In Help
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November 4, 2025Attention Master’s Plan A and Doctoral students:
Do you have questions regarding formatting your thesis or dissertation? Stop in during one of our help sessions to talk to Graduate School staff about any specific formatting questions you may have.
These are walk-in sessions. No registration is required.
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Get Stuff Done with GROW Get Stuff Done with GROW
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November 6, 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!
AGEP Learning Community Meeting AGEP Learning Community Meeting
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November 6, 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
COGS-Abrams Planetarium COGS-Abrams Planetarium
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COGS-Abrams Planetarium COGS-Abrams Planetarium
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November 6, 2025 – November 7, 2025CES Write-In CES Write-In
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November 7, 2025Would scheduling regular, specific times to write about your outreach or engagement work be helpful? If so, please join us on the first Friday of each month for three hours of dedicated time to advance your scholarship. Past participants have written journal articles, grant proposals, book chapters, theses or dissertations, curricula, pieces for public audiences, and community engagement portfolios. Participants should plan to write for the full three hours. We start the write-in by sharing writing goals for the day and wrap up with accomplishments and next steps.
Write-Ins are free, but registration is required. *Please note that your registration is a commitment to attend.
Sponsored by: University Outreach and Engagement; Office of Faculty and Academic Staff Development; The Graduate School; The Writing Center.
Registration Coming Soon
Contact Diane Doberneck, connordm@msu.edu with any questions.
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GPA Training - Slate & UDF Processes GPA Training - Slate & UDF Processes
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November 10, 2025Graduate Program Assistants are welcome to attend this training event, hosted by The Graduate School. Topics will include Slate and the UDF process within the Slate system.
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WAC Book Club: Meeting 2 WAC Book Club: Meeting 2
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November 11, 2025Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) supports educators in designing writing assignments that are effective, meaningful, and accessible to all. Join the book club to discuss Bad Ideas About Writing edited by Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe!
The book is open access and linked in the registration form. Each book club meeting will focus on a particular set of pages as indicated in the registration form. We invite you to read any of the chapters within that page range that interest you!
Dates:
WAC Book Club Meeting 1
Friday, October 24th from 10a-11am via Zoom (link to be shared by WC closer to event)
WAC Book Club Meeting 2
Friday, November 11th from 10a-11am via Zoom
WAC Book Club Meeting 3
Friday, December 5th from 10a-11am via Zoom
Register for book club dates via this link.
WAC Workshop Series: Giving Feedback on Student Writing WAC Workshop Series: Giving Feedback on Student Writing
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November 11, 2025As an educator at MSU, are you interested in...
learning more about teaching and supporting writing in your courses?
revising or developing new writing assignments for your courses?
improving your students' engagement with your writing assignments?The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program at MSU supports all MSU educators in developing their writing-related pedagogy in any level course, in any discipline. We invite you to participate in our upcoming Workshop Series!
Dates:
Busting Writing Myths
Friday, October 10th from 10a-11am via Zoom (link will be shared by WC closer to event)
Giving Feedback on Student Writing
Friday, November 11th from 10a-11am via Zoom
Creating Writing Assignments for Student Engagement
Friday, December 5th from 10a-11am via Zoom
Register for workshops via this link.
Lunch with the Dean Lunch with the Dean
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November 11, 2025During the academic year, the Dean of the Graduate School, Pero Dagbovie, invites graduate students to join him and his graduate school colleagues for lunch and conversation in Chittenden Hall along the beautiful and historic Laboratory Row.
About the Event:This unique opportunity allows Graduate Students the chance to connect with The Graduate School leadership and staff in a relaxed and informal lunch setting. Connect about career and school journeys, gain understanding of The Graduate School programs that empower graduate student success and engage in candid discussions about university and student life.
Why Attend?- Share experiences in a safe space.- Learn more about what the Graduate School offers, such as professional development & educational wellbeing opportunities.- Enjoy a meal and conversation with new people!
Registration for these lunches is required. If the registration link is no longer available, either the workshop is full, or the registration period has ended.
Fall 2025 Dates, all lunches will take place in-person in Chittenden Hall room 110 from 12:00-1:00pm:
Thursday, September 11
Wednesday, October 8
Tuesday, November 11
Tuesday, December 2RECR: Detrimental Research Practices, Teamwork and Conflict Resolution RECR: Detrimental Research Practices, Teamwork and Conflict Resolution
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November 11, 2025(RCR-3647-ILTVC)
Research is an increasingly complex endeavor, and one rarely works in isolation. This session will help you understand and appreciate what a ‘conflict of interest’ is, that they occur in many situations and are manageable. Strategies to avoid conflicts of interest will be presented. Conflicts within the context of peer review will be discussed - an important duty for all members of the scholarly community.
The term 'collaboration' in academic research is usually thought to mean an equal partnership between at least two academic faculty members who are pursuing mutually interesting and beneficial research or scholarly activities. Today, however, many collaborations involve researchers of differing stature, funding status, and types of organizations. In this workshop, rules for successful research collaboration will be discussed.
Register on the MSU Ability Training Compliance System
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GPD Lunch with the Dean GPD Lunch with the Dean
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November 12, 2025This is a chance for Graduate Program Directors to come to Chittenden Hall and interact with each other and the Graduate School Dean and Associate Deans over lunch.
Register Here
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COGS Craft & Connection @ MSU Library/Makerspace COGS Craft & Connection @ MSU Library/Makerspace
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November 13, 2025Thursday, November 13th @ MSU Library, 2 West – Hollander Makerspace
Time: 4PM to 6:30 PM Events – Council of Graduate Students
RSVP Suggested: bit.ly/COGScraft
Join us for a unique crafting event at the MSU Main Library! Create your own unique ornament/keytag with your grad & professional student peers while learning about 3D design, printing & laser cutting technology available at MSU Library. As a bonus – staff at Hollander Makerspace will teach you to use their resources which could also be useful tools for your research activities. No experience necessary!
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Navigating the PhD Session 1: Managing Time and Academic Relationships Navigating the PhD Session 1: Managing Time and Academic Relationships
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November 14, 2025In this 3-hour workshop, plans for time management and working with others 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 share strategies for overcoming writer’s block and procrastination. Additionally, discussion about selecting and working with committees will provide a space for sharing about and learning how to communicate with faculty members about participants’ research and writing.
A Zoom link and details will be shared with registrants closer to the date of the workshop.
Registration
Navigating the PhD Session 2: Writing Processes & Strategies for Academic Writing Navigating the PhD Session 2: Writing Processes & Strategies for Academic Writing
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November 14, 2025In this 3-hour workshop, the focus will be on writing processes and practices. 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 develop a plan for developing and completing their dissertations.
A Zoom link and details will be shared with registrants prior to the date of the workshop.
Registration
*Please note that your registration is a commitment to attend.
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ETD Formatting Walk-In Help ETD Formatting Walk-In Help
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November 19, 2025Attention Master’s Plan A and Doctoral students:
Do you have questions regarding formatting your thesis or dissertation? Stop in during one of our help sessions to talk to Graduate School staff about any specific formatting questions you may have.
These are walk-in sessions. No registration is required.
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COGS Coffee & Connection COGS Coffee & Connection
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November 21, 2025Graduate School Write-In Graduate School Write-In
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November 21, 2025Graduate 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.
Registration
*Food and activities are based on registration numbers. Please note that your registration is a commitment to attend.
