Events in October 2021
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Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 2) Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 2)
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October 15, 2021Date:
Friday, October 15, 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.
Category:
Professional Development
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Interviewing 101: Tips to Shine in an Interview Interviewing 101: Tips to Shine in an Interview
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October 19, 2021Date:
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Zoom
Join us as we review tips and tricks to nail the interview! Open to all students.
Register on Handshake https://msu.joinhandshake.com/events/870251/share_preview
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Professional Development
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Small Changes – BIG Difference Makers: Strategies That Inspire Faculty and Student Success Part II Small Changes – BIG Difference Makers: Strategies That Inspire Faculty and Student Success Part II
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October 20, 2021Date:
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Zoom
In bi-weekly Virtual Lunch and Learn & Best Practices in Teaching gatherings Graduate Teaching Assistants share their knowledge about teaching, teaching and technology tools as well as discuss research of teaching, book chapters relevant to work in an instructional setting. Anyone interested in these topics can join these meetings.
Completing the Circle Listening Session
During Part I of the Small Changes – BIG Difference Makers: Strategies That Inspire Faculty and Student Success Learn at Lunch Session, the premise that higher education cannot increase student success without focusing on faculty/instructor success was suggested. Strategies, resources, tools that GTAs can easily integrate into their teaching practices were shared. We have completed only a portion of the circle. If we are going to impact student learning and success, we believe it is necessary and important to listen to you. You are invited to share 1) what you need as a GTA to support your teaching and learning, 2) what you imagine faculty and student success might look like and steps we might take to operationalize our visions, 3) other thoughts to help ensure your success along with your students’ success. We value, appreciate, and recognize your scholarship, expertise, and your gifts as we consider how we might optimize educator and student success. All are welcome to share their thoughts and/or listen as we, together, continue to complete the circle.
Session Objectives
Those in attendance will have an opportunity to:
Share what they need to support their teaching, learning, personal, professional success
Talk about what is and is not working and why
Identify assets that can contribute to addressing barriers to instructor and student success
Listen to the perspectives of others that may challenge and inspire their own perspectives
Imagine what a graduate student/undergraduate experience inspired by an ethic of care might look like
Suggest how we might build on the good work that is being done
Facilitated by Mary Beth Heeder, Sr. Consultant and Project Manager for Student Learning and Success; Instructor, Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures Department, College of Arts and Letters
Facilitator Bio:
All of the roles Mary Beth has held during her 40 years working at MSU are linked to her passion to help all students be successful as they navigate the exciting but often overwhelming college experience. Her current work in the College of Arts and Letters focuses on facilitating the integration of academic and student affairs in the College of Arts & Letters to create a seamless student experience across curricular and co-curricular opportunities. In addition to her student learning, student success, and faculty success work, Mary Beth enjoys teaching First Year Writing for the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department. Her research interests include how students learn; curriculum and purpose development; mindset science; social psychological interventions and student achievement; how dignity and empathy impact teaching, learning, student and faculty success.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://msu.zoom.us/j/732599810 Meeting ID: 732 599 810 Passcode: GTAsTeach
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Professional Development
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Leadership Summit 2021 Leadership Summit 2021
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October 23, 2021Date:
Saturday, October 23, 2021 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Zoom
Keynote (1-2:30): A Foundation of Social and Emotional Intelligence
Dr. Lew Dotterer
The practices and behaviors associated with Social and Emotional Intelligence (SEI) account for 58% of performance in all jobs in the workplace. These skills are also strongly correlated with leadership development: to know how to set goals, make decisions, motive oneself, build relationships with others, deal with stress, manage conflicts, awareness of one's own feelings and others, and be a change agent are just some of the skills associated with one’s effectiveness on the job and in life. In this session, participants will be provided an overview of what SEI entails and will also dive deeper into four of the specific skill sets measured by many of the SEI instruments. Those four skill sets include: Self Control, Personal Power, Service Orientation, and Inspirational Leadership. All of these skills can be assessed and developed – people can increase their Social and Emotional Intelligence!
To prepare for this session, you will find it helpful to take this free online assessment (it takes about 10 minutes): If you don’t have time, please still come anyway! If you want to go the extra mile, you can order the book “Emotional Intelligence 2.0”, which is a resource Dr. Dotterer recommends and uses in his presentation. The book comes with a free online assessment that you can take before the session. If you get a chance, please read over the first three chapters. https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Intelligence-2-0-Travis-Bradberry/dp/0974320625. If you would like to order the book but finances are a concern, please email Dr. Meg Moore at akehimeg@msu.edu.
Student Leadership Opportunities Panel (2:30-3:30)
Come hear insights from graduate students who have taken on leadership roles and responsibilities at MSU. They will share lessons learned as well as how their involvement has impacted them in positive ways. They will also share suggestions for how to get more involved in opportunities across campus.
Next Steps: How to Develop as a Leader in Graduate School (3:30-4:00)
Developing as a leader requires building skills as well as taking on new challenges. This may seem a daunting task in addition to all of the work you have to do in graduate school. This wrap-up session will include tips on how to grow as a leader through thoughtful engagement and intentional reflection.
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Professional Development
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Stress Management to Grow the Creative Mindset: Focus on Resiliency not Burnout Stress Management to Grow the Creative Mindset: Focus on Resiliency not Burnout
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October 28, 2021Date:
Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
Hybrid i.e., on Zoom & In-Person at Chittenden Hall (466 W. Circle Dr.)
Speaker Bio:
Dr. McGrady received her B.S. from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, her Masters in Physiology from Michigan State University, her Ph.D. in Biology and her M. Ed in Counseling from the University of Toledo. She is a licensed counselor, a certified provider of biofeedback services and holds a sports counseling certificate. Currently Dr. McGrady is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC), where she also maintains a practice in counseling, biofeedback and stress management. Dr. McGrady’s professional activities include: Past President of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and past Associate Editor of the international journal “Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback”. Dr. McGrady has extensive experience in teaching medical, nursing, physician assistant, graduate students and medical residents. She has designed resiliency programs for medical students, medical residents and more recently sports psychology interventions for college level athletes. Her curriculum vita lists 90 peer reviewed articles and book chapters. She lectures at scientific meetings and locally in her community on topics related to stress and stress management. Her first book “Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health” with Donald Moss Ph.D. was released in 2013 by Springer. Her second book, also with Dr. Moss, details an integrative mind body spirit approach to chronic illness and was published by Springer in 2018.
In-person attendance is limited. For in-person attendees, a meal to-go will be served. UPDATE: In-person registration is now at capacity. Virtual registration remains OPEN.
Category:
Life and Well-Being
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Spring 2022 TA Tuition Pool Closes Spring 2022 TA Tuition Pool Closes
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October 29, 2021Date:
Friday, October 29, 2021 - 5:00pm
Location:
https://grad.msu.edu/tatuitionpool
The Graduate Employees Union and Michigan State University agreed to add 500 additional tuition credits to the tuition waiver benefit for teaching assistants. This additional benefit will be in place for 2019-2023. The Fall tuition pool is available to students appointed as teaching assistants in Spring 2022. Applications are due October 29, 2021 by 5 pm.
Apply at https://grad.msu.edu/tatuitionpool
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Funding
