Abstract

Table of Contents: 58th Annual Meeting

Chicago, Illinois | April 2 – 5, 2002

Opening Session: Keynote

  • Leaving the Ivory Tower: Socio-Cultural Causes of Doctoral Student Attrition
  • Improving Graduate Student Retention through Graduate School Activities
  • Graduate Attrition from the Perspective of a Private University
  • Non-Traditional Students in Graduate Education

Plenary Sessions

  • Plenary I: Curriculum
    • When the Light at the End of the Tunnel Begins to Flicker: Examining Attrition from the Perspective of Graduate Students
    • Curriculum Issues: Meeting Educational Needs in Life Sciences
  • Plenary II: Support
    • New National Support Mechanisms for Graduate Students and Their Education
    • Examples of Non-Monetary Support for Doctoral Students: A Graduate School Initiative at Washington University in St. Louis
    • Forms of Non-Monetary Support for Graduate Students
  • Plenary III: Placement
    • Teaching Postdocs at the University of Michigan (and Beyond): An Interim Report
    • In the Trenches: A Graduate Student's Perspective of Placement — What Will My "End-Use" Be?
    • Establishing a Pipeline between Master's and Ph.D. Granting Institutions
    • Forging an Alliance with the Career Services Office

Workshops

  • Workshop 1: Grad School Leadership
  • Workshop 2: Enrollment Management
  • Workshop 3: Challenges in Assessment: The Comprehensive, Master's Focused University

Special Presentations & Reports

  • GRE Report: The Logic for Recent Changes to the GRE Program

MAGS Committee Reports

  • Auditing Committee
  • Distinguished Master's Thesis Award Committee
  • Graduate Standards Committee
  • Membership Committee (2002 Member Institutions)
  • Publication Committee
  • Treasurer's Report
  • Instructions to Contributors

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

4-2-2002

Volume

58

First Page

1

Last Page

127

Rights

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools

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