During our upcoming meeting of the Core Working Group, we hope to make some substantial headway in our discussions on both alumni data collection and building alumni and employee partnerships. This will be the last discussion-oriented meeting of this project. Our Town Hall event, which we’ve named Post Grad (Center): Engaging Publics with a PhD (see our January meeting report for more details), will be held on May 4. Our final committee meetings in May, June, and July will be used to draft, comment on, and edit a white paper and evaluation plan for implementing project ideas.
Here is the agenda for the upcoming meeting:
Core Working Group Meeting
March 7, 2017
Meeting Agenda:
- Summary of January 30th Project Directors’ Meeting
- Review of last week’s Steering Committee Meeting conversation
- New alumni committee members
- Understanding PhD Career Pathways for Program Improvement
- Curricular review and innovations from Provost Joy Connolly
- Planning for the May 4th event
- Recommendations and strategies around alumni data collection
- Streamline communications between programs and administrative offices
- Metrics for assessing effectiveness of future curricular changes
- Launch of an alumni mentoring database
- Recommendations and strategies around partnerships
- Best practices for connecting with external organizations
- Launch of an employer network
- Graduate Career Consortium Meeting in Houston, TX, Tuesday through Friday, June 27-30, 2017
