Issue 1, Spring 2024

News & Announcements

• Medpace Recruitment Event in Lexington (1/30/24)
• 2024 Spring Graduate Organizations and Programs Registration/ Re-Registration (1/31/24)
• Start-to-Finish Mentorship Program
• Spring 2024 GS Courses
• Spring 2024 ESL Courses
• 2024 Ida Lawrence Research Summer Internship Program at ETS! (2/1/24)
• Call for Graduate Education Research Grant Submissions (2/15/24)
• Recruiting Entrepreneurial Fellows at the CBC (3/28/24)

Reminders

• ETD Submitters Tips
• Course Repeatability
• For Graduating Master (Plan A & Plan B) and Specialist Students: Degree Audit
• Responsible Conduct of Research
• Graduate-Level Fellowships & Funding Opportunities
• Thomas D. Clark Graduate Study 
• Graduate Student Resources 

Medpace Recruitment Event in Lexington

2024 Spring Graduate Organizations and Programs Registration/ Re-Registration

This survey is for '2024 Spring Graduate Organizations and Programs registration/ re-registration’. All organizations and grad programs are required to filling out this survey by their GSC representatives before 11:59 PM, January 31st, 2024, to keep their status active.

For any questions about this survey, please contact the GSC secretary Michelle Graham-Smith (Michelle.Graham-Smith@uky.edu) or GSC president Sara Qian (Sara.qc@uky.edu). 

Registration Link: https://uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8Izu0K1du9Iiww6

Start-to-Finish Mentorship Program

Enroll in a Spring 2024 Graduate School (GS) Course

Consider enrolling in one or more of The Graduate School’s spring professional development courses. The Graduate School collaborates with CELT, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, and other units and academic departments to make GS courses available to all graduate students. If you have questions, contact Dr. Morris Grubbs (morris.grubbs@uky.edu).

Spring 2024 ESL Courses

The following ESL courses will be offered in-person during Spring 2024. You can read more about each of these courses here. If you have any questions about these courses, please contact Angela Garner, Lecturer in the Center for English as a Second Language and Coordinator of International Graduate Student Initiatives in the Graduate School.    

ESL 095: Academic Writing for International Graduate Students 

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:45am

This class is designed to assist international students prepare for academic writing at the graduate level. Particular attention is given to writing conventions in the United States, and there is an emphasis on learning and applying the process of writing (drafting, revision, editing, and proofreading).  Students will also learn about the importance of academic honesty at the American University, including how to avoid plagiarism as well as how to evaluate and cite sources in their specific disciplines. Assignments in the class will allow students to investigate writing in their disciplines and then apply what they learn to their own field-specific writing. Sample assignments include an annotated bibliography and a proposal/problem-solution paper. 

ESL 093: Academic Speaking/Listening for International Graduate Students  

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00am-12:15pm 

This class is designed to help international students develop their oral and aural English skills in a practical environment. Students’ pronunciation patterns are analyzed at the beginning of the semester and time is spent developing a sense of American English sounds, rhythms, and intonation patterns. Course time will also be devoted to helping students develop communication strategies, prepare for and present short presentations, and lead small group as well as roundtable discussions.  

2024 Ida Lawrence Research Summer Internship Program at ETS!

ETS Research is excited to announce that applications are now open for our Summer 2024 Internship and Fellowship Programs.

Why ETS?

We're on the lookout for passionate students who are eager to contribute to cutting-edge research and collaborate with our dynamic team. At ETS, we cultivate a vibrant community where your ideas and skills truly matter. Immerse yourself in hands-on research, working along ETS team members on projects that redefine the landscape of educational measurement.

Opportunities:

• Ida Lawrence Research Summer Internship Program 
• Application Deadline: February 1, 2024
• Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship Program.
• Preliminary Application Deadline: January 19, 2024
• Final Application Deadline: March 1, 2024

For complete program details, visit ETS.org. Still have questions? Reach out to us at internfellowships@ets.org. We're here to help!

Call for Graduate Education Research Grant Submissions

Deadline: February 15, 2024

The Research Committee of NAGAP is proud to announce a call for proposals for the annual NAGAP Graduate Education Research Grant. One Gold Research Grant and one Silver Research Grant will be selected for the 2024-25 award year.

This grant is designed to encourage emerging knowledge and understanding of the complexities of Graduate Enrollment Management (GEM), including all aspects of admissions and recruitment, enrollment, retention and student affairs, as well as graduation and alumni engagement.

Eligibility

• For Graduate or Professional Students (any degree level), or
• For Professionals with Doctoral Degrees currently working in a position related to the advancement, teaching, or management of graduate education

The Gold Research Grant award includes:

• An award of $2,500, payable directly to the individual researcher (NAGAP will not pay institutional overhead or indirect costs)
• One year of NAGAP membership with full privileges
• Travel and registration to present at the NAGAP Graduate Enrollment Management Summit in 2025
• Recognition at the 2024 NAGAP Graduate Enrollment Management Summit

The Silver Research Grant award includes:

• An award of $1,000, payable directly to the individual researcher (NAGAP will not pay institutional overhead or indirect costs)
• One year of NAGAP membership with full privileges
• Complimentary registration to attend the NAGAP Graduate Enrollment Management Summit in 2025
• Recognition at the 2024 NAGAP Graduate Enrollment Management Summit

How to apply:

Application instructions and a link to the online application are posted on NAGAP's website. Please contact Kristin Chalberg, chal0077@umn.edu, with any questions.

All applications must be submitted by February 15, 2024.

Lastly, please forward this opportunity to any student or colleague you know who is eligible under the guidelines. Thank you for working with NAGAP to continue to be leaders in understanding and supporting the Graduate Enrollment Management profession.

Recruiting Entrepreneurial Fellows at the CBC

Reminders

ETD Submitters Tips

We recommend that each day you work on your thesis or dissertation, you save your document under a brief name that ends with the current date. For example, "Ch One 24-Mar-2012", then tomorrow, "Ch One 25-Mar-2012." You will have a chronological archive of your work in case you make an inadvertent change or even lose the file on which you are currently working. It’s well worth the expense of buying removable media such as a flash drives, or saving your work to the cloud. It’s also a good idea to have copies in multiple places. It takes a bit more time, but sensible backup procedures can save you from a lot of heartbreak and many hours of lost time down the road.

Course Repeatability

It is important to be familiar with the repeatability limits of courses.

If a student exceeds the limit, the Registrar’s Office will not assign academic credit to the course. The Graduate School cannot support petitions for exceptions to this policy.



For Graduating Master (Plan A & Plan B) and Specialist Students: Degree Audit

Conducting a degree audit is critically important during the semester you intend to graduate. Checking at the start of the semester gives you a view of the requirements you have satisfied and those that are remaining.

If you discover a course that was wrongly assigned to a requirement, or not credited, you should bring this to the attention of your DGS (Director of Graduate Studies) or your program advisor. The program should contact the student affairs officer for the area/ discipline well in advance of the final examination to resolve. If there are requirements that have not been met, then you and your program will need to decide it there are substitutions that will fulfill that requirement.

Responsible Conduct of Research

Graduate-Level Fellowship & Funding Opportunities

The Graduate School's office of Finance, Funding, and Analytics maintains a webpage of fellowship opportunities available through the university. They also keep a list of some external funding sources.

Additionally, UK Research's Proposal Development Office is a great resource to discover extramural research funding and award opportunities.