by puskar | Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
We’re reaching out to more than 600 alumni and former doctoral students in the humanities to learn more about their careers. Starting this week they’ll be receiving an email from us with a link to a short survey, or one of these postcards in...
by puskar | Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Our thanks to all the graduate students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences who responded to our surveys about doctoral career diversity this spring. We had a phenomenal response rate. Fifty four percent of all the doctoral students who received the...
by puskar | May 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
From the start, we’ve found it hard to balance our faculty members’ commitment to patient discussion and exchange with some of our non-academic members’ desire for more rapid action. Faculty members sometimes feel rushed toward decisions; community members...
by puskar | Dec 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
We’re excited to report some results from a series of focus groups we held last month through the Zeidler Center for Public Discussion. (Thanks, Zeidler!) Part of our planning efforts involve gathering more information about career outcomes and preferences, through...
by puskar | Oct 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
We learned a lot from a panel at the Imagining America conference held in Milwaukee last weekend. UWM Professor of English Gregory Jay attended the conference, and reported back to the committee from a fascinating panel titled “Re-envisioning Graduate Education for...
by jcarnes | Oct 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
We had a very productive organizational meeting on Sept. 23, where we assigned subcommittees and planned our work for fall. And we had a few lively debates already. We’ve organized our work in three subcommittees, Curriculum Development, Faculty Education, and Alumni...
