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Reminder: This monthly newsletter is where we will be announcing upcoming meetings, policy changes, and other important information. In Gmail, this message may be clipped, and you will have to click on the "View entire message" link at the end to see all of the content.
Please note the revised DGS/CGS meeting schedule under "General".
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The Diversity Recruitment Working Group will meet March 27 to discuss plans for the 2018-2019 academic year. Anyone interested should contact Anna De Cheke Qualls (adechek1@umd.edu).
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VOXY
The VOXY-UMD Bridge Program portal is now available for students with an English condition to access. Their admission letter will contain a link to the English Language Requirements for Enrollment page which gives an explanation of the program and a link to the portal at https://buy.voxy.com/umdbridge/. Students can sign up for the two month online course and work on improving their English. They can then retake the TOEFL/IELTS/PTE after completing the program and should inform the Graduate School if they earn a higher score that will change their English condition.
Students who were already admitted into the English Bridge Program prior to the portal being available will receive a separate e-mail from the Graduate School informing them of this opportunity.
Annual Updates
By now you may have heard from your program's Graduate Admissions Advisory Group (GAAG) representative about 2018 Annual Updates. After a considerable amount of feedback, we have decided move this year’s update process up in the calendar year to accommodate faculty and staff.
This year Annual Updates will be done on June 4th & 5Th with testing by the programs beginning on June 6th.
To accommodate this change, we are asking you to submit any requests for edits through the Annual Update Request Form. All programs are asked complete the annual updates form, either to modify admissions requirements and deadlines or to actively opt out of annual updates. The Google form opened on March 1, 2018 and will remain open until the deadline for submissions on May 15, 2018.
Click the following link to access the Annual Update Request Form: http://blog.umd.edu/annualupdates/
Password: hobsons20!4*
There you will find detail instructions on how to access the form via your UMD Google Account. As well as guidelines for updating your programs deadline.
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All graduate students were notified of their access to U.achieve yesterday. Please feel free to contact Angela Ambrosi (aambrosi@umd.edu) if you have any questions about this.
With both sadness and joy, we say farewell to Michelle Tan and wish her all the best as she transitions from Maryland to her new position as Associate Registrar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Academic Deadlines for Graduate Students for Spring 2018
April 11, 2018
Final deadline to change credit level, change grading option, and drop a course
(Graduate Students can do this on their own via Testudo)
Deadlines for Withdrawal from ALL courses
February 13, 2018
Final deadline to withdraw from ALL courses with a 60% refund
February 20, 2018
Final deadline to withdraw from ALL courses with a 40% refund
February 27, 2018
Final deadline to withdraw from ALL courses with a 20% refund
May 10, 2018
Final deadline to withdraw from ALL courses (no refund)
See http://registrar.umd.edu/deadlines.html for more information.
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Spring 2018 Deadline dates
March 9, 2018: Departments submitting uAchieve audit sheets can have until this deadline date.
April 17, 2018: Dissertation Forms
Doctoral Students: Final date to submit: dissertation via ETD System and electronic publication form, to the Office of the Registrar.
Dissertation directors to submit signed Report of Examining Committee form to the Office of the Registrar.
April 23, 2018: Master's Thesis & Non-Thesis Forms
Master's Thesis Students: Final date to submit thesis via ETD System and electronic publication form to the Registrar Office.
Thesis directors to submit signed Report of Examining Committee form to the Registrar Office.
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Office of Funding Opportunities
Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
The Graduate School invites post-candidacy doctoral students from all disciplines to compete in the annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT). This competition provides a unique opportunity for students to demonstrate their ability to effectively explain their research to a general audience in an engaging and interesting manner. To view last year’s 3MT winners, please see our Graduate School YouTube page. For more details about the competition, please see the 3MT Guidelines. Applications to participate are due Friday, March 16, 2018. Please share this announcement with your students!
All-S.T.A.R. Fellowships for AY 2018-19
The Graduate All-S.T.A.R. Fellowships honor graduate students who are both outstanding scholars and outstanding graduate assistants. This supplemental fellowship provides a $10,000 stipend. Colleges/Schools are asked to select their Graduate All-S.T.A.R. Fellow or Fellows from eligible students enrolled in that college/school. College/School selections are due to the Graduate School by Friday, April 20, 2018. For more information about the eligibility requirements and nomination process, please see the All-STAR Fellowship Guidelines.
Outstanding Graduate Assistant Awards for 2018
The Graduate School invites colleges/schools to choose graduate students for Outstanding Graduate
Assistant Awards for exemplary achievement as a GA in 2017-18. Department/Program nominators are asked to prepare a one-page nomination letter to submit to the college/school in which the student is enrolled. Colleges will then make the award selection(s) and submit them to the Graduate School by Friday, April 20, 2018. Please contact your college/school for internal deadlines. For more details about eligibility requirements and nomination process, please see the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Guidelines.
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Doctoral Scholar Award Program
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works side-by-side with policymakers such as state legislators and education agency officials as they implement policies to help students achieve more, prepare students for college and careers, and boost college completion. The goal of the SREB Doctoral Scholars Program is to increase the number of minority students who earn doctorates and choose to become faculty at colleges and universities. The Graduate School has agreed to become an SREB Institutional Funding Partner and is looking forward to partnering with UMD programs to support SREB Doctoral Scholars.
We invite programs to nominate eligible students to the Graduate School by April 30, 2018. Please view the Graduate School’s SREB Doctoral Scholar nomination instructions and program commitment requirements here.
External Fellowship and Award Opportunities:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – March 29, 2018
Hispanic Scholarship Fund – March 30, 2018
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Awards – March 31, 2018
ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing – April 30, 2018
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Professional and Career Development
Save the Date for the 2018 Graduate Career Pathways Conference on Friday, April 20th from 8:30 am-4:00 pm. This event is a collaboration between the Graduate School, The University Career Center and 11 other units on campus. This new event will educate graduate students and postdocs about a wide range of career paths that exist for them. The schedule includes three sessions of three parallel panels featuring over 30 alumni and other industry professionals. Each panel will showcase a broad industry sector such as consulting, writing and publishing, research outside of academia, and NGOs and will include three to five alumni and professional panelists, from diverse disciplines and organizations. The conference program includes breakfast, lunch featuring a keynote address with alumnus Rita Leahy, PhD (’89) and a networking reception for attendees and panelists at the end of the day. Registration opens on March 1st.
Spring Break Thesis & Dissertation Retreat: The Graduate School Writing Center is offering a Thesis & Dissertation Retreat over spring break, from March 21-23. The retreat will afford participants time to write along with opportunities for one-on-one writing consultations with Writing Fellows and presentations about topics such as setting goals and structuring writing time. Participants must have an approved prospectus or thesis topic and must commit to attending each day.
The retreat is limited to 25 students. A $25 fee (to cover meals and refreshments) will be required to secure a place. Applications will be accepted until March 12, 2018 or until registration is full, whichever happens first. To register, go to go.umd.edu/Spring18Retreat
Getting Ready for GRAD!
Are you planning on presenting your work at GRAD 2018? The Graduate School Writing Center is here to help. We are hosting two workshops on how to construct and deliver an engaging and persuasive GRAD presentation. Whether you are a first-time GRAD presenter or a GRAD veteran, our sessions can help you prepare for the event.
Workshops will be held on Friday, March 30th 1-2pm in 5100B McKeldin (the Graduate School Writing Center) and Monday, April 2nd, from 2-3pm in 2124 Lee. To register for either workshop, click here (go.umd.edu/ReadyForGRAD)
Oral Communication support in the Graduate School Writing Center
The Graduate School Writing Center is now offering consultations on oral communications. Our speech drafting and delivery coaching can help graduate students in numerous contexts, including job talks, conference presentations, class speeches, performances, job interviewing, and general speech apprehension, among others. To make an appointment, contact the Graduate School Writing Center,gradwritingfellows@umd.edu
Science Communication for Any Audience – an online workshop series through CIRTL
The ability to communicate the impact and importance of one’s research to a wide variety of audiences is a crucial skill for professional development. In this three-part workshop, participants will explore key concepts and strategies in science communication, focusing on both spoken and written messages. This workshop is designed for CIRTL graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty who wish to improve their communication skills when connecting with general/public audiences, students, and fellow scholars whose technical expertise is in a different discipline or research area (e.g., when communicating research in job talks, journal manuscripts, conference presentations, etc.). Participants will be expected to develop a 2-3 minute elevator pitch in which they describe one or more research projects, and the importance/impact of those projects, in language accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Workshop Schedule:
Thursday, March 29, April 5, and April 12 at 12-1:15PM ET
Instructors:
Prof. Ron Yaros, Journalism
Dr. Jade Olson, Director, Oral Communication Center
Dr. Linda Macri, Director, Graduate School Writing Center
Participants must register by March 23. To register, students must create an account on CIRTL (there is no fee for the account or the workshop) at http://www.cirtl.net/users/sign_up/account
Upcoming Meetings
We have all of the DGS and CGS meeting dates and times confirmed in the Jimenez Room of Stamp. The dates are below.
Thursday: 4/26
· DGS: 1:45-2:45
· CGS: 3-4
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Fall Graduate Student Teaching Orientation Date Announced – Friday August 24, 2018
If you have graduate students who will be teaching in the next academic year, encourage them to save the date for the TLTC’s Fall Graduate Student Teaching Orientation. This year, the orientation will be held on Friday, August 24, 2018. Details and enrollment will be available at tltc.umd.edu/teaching-orientations soon.
Teaching Resources for Graduate Students
The TLTC has compiled a list of campus resources that can help support your graduate students. The list includes resources to support and improve their teaching, help support their own students or mentees, or to support themselves as graduate students. In addition to these compiled resources, make sure that your graduate students and post-docs are aware of the resources and programs available to support their teaching and professional development by asking them to subscribe to the TLTC's weekly newsletter. Visit tltc.umd.edu/newsletter to sign up.
University Teaching & Learning Program (UTLP)
The TLTC, in collaboration with The Graduate School, offers this professional development program on teaching and learning in higher education for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Aligning with the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) goals, the UTLP is a self-paced program that provides formal training at three levels: Associate, Practitioner, and Scholar. Encourage your graduate students to visit tltc.umd.edu/utlp for more information about the program and to enroll.
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The Graduate School will host a campus-wide New Graduate Student Orientation on Monday, August 20, 2018, at 9 am—12 pm, in the Grand and Colony Ballrooms of Stamp Student Union, followed by an outdoor BBQ for new Graduate Students who attend the orientation from 12—1 pm on McKeldin Mall (weather permitting). The Graduate School will host its fourth Orientation for Spouses and Partners of New Doctoral Students concurrent with the New Student Orientation. More information on these events will be forthcoming.
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Advancing graduate education. Enhancing the graduate student experience.
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