October 1, 2023

IN THIS BULLETIN:

Meetings, Workshops, & Events

1. Graduate Honor System Seeking Faculty Panelists

2. Webinar: Recruitment Strategies to Address Today’s Challenges

3. GPSS Graduate and Professional School Fair

Deadlines & Dates to Remember


Policy Updates

Administrative Announcements  

1. Survey on VT Shared Governance System

Meetings, Workshops, & Events

  1. Graduate Honor System Seeking Faculty Panelists

Monday, October 2, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Zoom

Tuesday, October 24, 12:00-1:00 p.m., in GLC Room D; lunch provided

The Graduate Honor System relies on trained faculty and graduate students to review academic integrity violation cases. It takes a one-hour training to become a panelist, after which you can serve on preliminary review and review panels. Become a panelist to help review cases and actively contribute to the ongoing conversation about standards of academic integrity in graduate education. Please indicate your interest in attending either of the upcoming trainings by completing this short registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfm0Y93Xd-yaShDS-fc62wjuoAjDTVC47kbs8WHw2FYfh7jMQ/viewform.

  1. Webinar: Recruitment Strategies to Address Today’s Challenges

The Graduate School has partnered with ETS to provide a webinar to our graduate programs on prospective student recruitment strategies. In this session, you’ll get information about the current state of graduate enrollment in the U.S. and some predictions for the year ahead. You’ll also learn about recruitment strategies and tools that have worked for our experts in their own experiences in academia. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, October 25th at 2:00 p.m. EST at https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81017030720.

  1. GPSS Graduate and Professional School Fair

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate’s annual Graduate and Professional School Fair will be on Monday, October 2, 11a.m.- 3 p.m., in Squires Commonwealth Ballroom. Over 40 representatives from various institutions and programs, including but not limited to, business, engineering, nursing, pharmD, etc. will be present. If you have master’s students interested in pursuing a PhD, please let them know about this fair. Also, we’d love if you can share with colleagues in your departments who advise undergraduate students. More information can be found here: https://gpss.vt.edu/events/gpsf.html.  Email gpss@vt.edu with questions.

Deadlines & Dates to Remember

Policy Updates

Administrative Announcements 

  1. Survey on VT Shared Governance System 

The University Council Cabinet would appreciate your feedback through our online survey about Virginia Tech’s shared governance system. Your input will be used to help gauge how informed the university community is about what is happening in the governance system and whether our students, faculty, and staff feel they know how to become involved in one of the shared governance bodies or to make their voices heard by communicating ideas or concerns to the appropriate office or governance body. All responses will remain confidential and secure. Survey results will be reported to the cabinet in the aggregate without any personally identifying information. We have contracted with QuestionPro, an independent research firm, to field your confidential survey responses. Please click on this link to complete the survey: https://virginiatech.questionpro.com/t/AXO8nZxoYb by October 16. Thank you in advance for your valuable insights.