Graduate School

Graduate School Bulletin

October 4, 2022


Table of contents

Click on a category name to view that section, or click on a headline to read the full announcement.

Faculty and Staff

Admissions

Recruitment

Graduate Student Success

Opportunities for Graduate Students

Funding for Graduate Students

Upcoming Events and Deadlines

Faculty and Staff

The Graduate School invites you to join us on October 19th for an Orientation for New Department Heads and new Graduate Program Directors.

Location: 121 Eisenhower Hall and via Zoom (https://ksu.zoom.us/j/99919430807, Passcode: GRAD).

For information about this event, please contact Bailee at blirwin@ksu.edu or Miranda at mquint@ksu.edu

Please RSVP to this event by October 18, 2022.

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Departments are invited to nominate outstanding graduate student teachers for the GSC Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence. This award recognizes one master’s student and one doctoral student who have excelled in teaching. Each award recipient receives a $500 scholarship from the Graduate Student Council and serves as K-State’s nominee for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Excellence in Teaching Award. MAGS award winners receive a $750 honorarium and are recognized at the MAGS annual meeting in the Spring.

Nominees must be enrolled in a graduate degree program and have an appointment with teaching responsibilities at K-State during the 2022 calendar year.

The deadline for departments to submit nominations to their respective college dean’s office is October 4th. Each department may nominate one master’s student and one doctoral student.

The deadline for colleges to submit nominations to Dr. Megan Miller (mmmiller@ksu.edu) is October 18th. Each college may nominate one master’s student and one doctoral student. The College of Arts and Sciences is an exception and may nominate three master’s and three doctoral students.

Award recipients will be selected by the awards selection committee, which will be composed of at least three Graduate Faculty members and at least two graduate students on November 1, 2022.

Visit the award webpage for additional information and nomination materials. Questions about the award may be directed to Dr. Megan Miller, Graduate Student Success Coordinator, at mmmiller@ksu.edu, 532-6191.

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The Graduate Student Council is encouraging Graduate Faculty and staff to volunteer as judges for the Research and the State poster forum held on October 27, 2022, in the Union Courtyard.

Graduate students participating in Research and the State poster forum are competing for selection to represent K-State at the Capitol Graduate Research Summit, where they will have the opportunity to share their work with state legislators. The students will need to communicate their research to the general public effectively. To provide an evaluation of poster presentations from this perspective, some judges will be assigned to evaluate posters in an area of research very different from their own research/scholarly background.

The volunteer form is available. Judges will be contacted in mid-to-late October with notification of their judging assignment.

For judging-related questions, please contact the Graduate Student Council at egsc@ksu.edu.

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The Graduate School is pleased to recognize Dr. Yoonseong Park, Professor of Entomology, and Dr. Hans Coetzee, University Distinguished Professor and Head of Anatomy and Physiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, as the recipients of the 2022-2023 Commerce Bank and W.T. Kemper Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award. Park and Coetzee have made significant contributions in their fields and to graduate education. Click here to read the full announcement.

Dr. Park will give a public presentation on his work at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Town Hall at the Leadership Studies Building. Coetzee will present his public lecture in the spring 2023 semester.

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The current research credit course grading process of “I” (incomplete) each semester until the student has successfully defended their thesis, report or dissertation will be changing.

Due to the U.S. Department of Education now requires the Office of Student Financial Assistance to report “I” grades as non-passing grades. For graduate students receiving federal financial aid, this means that the Office of Student Financial Assistance must return aid granted for credit hours graded with an “I” (incomplete). ​

“CR” (credit) will need to be assigned for research credit enrollments for students who are making progress towards their degree.

If the student is not making progress, a grade of “IH” or NC must be assigned by the department.

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Current reports on graduate students who have incomplete grades were sent to the departments from the Grad Resources page. Graduate program directors should review the incomplete grades report for their program and work with the students and appropriate faculty members to facilitate each student’s completion of missing coursework. December 13, 2022, is the deadline to resolve incomplete grades from the Spring 2022 or Summer 2022 semesters. Per the university grading policy, any incomplete grades that remain after this deadline will automatically be reassigned to an F grade.

Questions about incomplete grade reports may be directed to Angie Pfizenmaier, Lead Degree Analyst, at akt@ksu.edu.

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Current reports on graduate students who are on academic probation were sent to the departments from the Grad Resources page. The reports also indicate which students were on probation in Fall 2021 or Spring 2022 and have returned to good standing, if any. Per Graduate Handbook policy, graduate students are expected to earn a cumulative GPA of 3.0 within two semesters, if enrolled full-time, or within 12 credit hours, if enrolled part-time. Students who do not return to good standing in this time frame are subject to dismissal and must be in good academic standing to be awarded a degree.

Action to address probation status: Students who were placed on probation in Spring 2022 or Summer 2022 recently received a direct notification from the Graduate School regarding their probationary status and were requested to develop a student success plan for returning to good academic standing. The success plan should be developed with guidance from the student’s major professor and supervisory committee (or with their graduate program director if a major professor and supervisory committee are not yet assigned). Graduate program directors also have been notified directly about students in their programs who are on probation.

Questions about student probation reports may be directed to Dr. Megan Miller, Graduate Student Success Coordinator, at mmmiller@ksu.edu, 532-6191.

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The traditional in-person Benefits Fair is returning this October 5th and 6th, from 9:00 am to 2:00pm in the Grand Ballroom at the K-State Student Union. On Wednesday October 5th, there will be several presentations in the K and S Ballrooms.

You may also join through zoom or with the meeting ID: 996 4129 6223

Click here for the full schedule of presentations and to read the full article.

For questions, please contact the Benefits Team at benefits@k-state.edu

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Oct. 4

Deadline for departments to submit nominations to their respective college dean’s office for GSC and MAGS teaching awards

Oct. 5

Benefits Fair, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Location, Grand Ballroom at the K-State Student Union or by zoom

Oct. 6

Benefits Fair, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Location, Grand Ballroom at the K-State Student Union or by zoom

Oct. 18

Deadline for colleges to submit nominations to Dr. Megan Miller (mmmiller@ksu.edu) for GSC and MAGS teaching awards

Oct. 19

October Know How: Graduate School conversations, 11:30 am-1:00 pm, Eisenhower 121

Topic: Orientation for new Department Heads and new Graduate Program Directors

Nov. 1

Award recipients will be selected by the awards selection committee for GSC and MAGS teaching awards

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Admissions

If you have Spring 2023 international applications awaiting a program recommendation, the Admissions team encourage you to please complete those as soon as possible. Once that is completed, we can process the documents to provide enough time for applicants to obtain an I-20 and/or Visa.

Both the legacy interface and updated interface support sending email to applicants through CollegeNET.

For more information about sending emails through CollegeNET, See the documentation at: https://www.k-state.edu/grad/faculty-resources/collegenet/6-email.html

For direct questions, please contact Joe Horan, Graduate Admissions Manager, at jphoran@ksu.edu

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Graduate School leader and former Associate Dean at UCLA, Carlos Grijalva, will be sharing is his insights on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 2:00 pm Eastern. The title of his talk is “Connecting Holistic, Admissions, Diversity, and Student Success.”

In this session, learn about the full breadth of practices that promote fairness, processes that mitigate bias and strategies that can help you achieve your enrollment goals.

“There’s more to holistic admissions than just considering everything an applicant can bring to a program.” – Carlos Grijalva

You can register here for this event.

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Recruitment

The Graduate School collaborated with the College of Education’s Global Education Outreach program and the EducationUSA Pakistan program to present graduate funding opportunities to students this past Thursday, September 29th.

Prospective international students are eager to understand what prerequisite course work and experiences are recommended for assistantship opportunities, the application process and what to expect if offered the opportunity to study here at K-State.

The Graduate School is looking forward to supporting future recruitment efforts across our many graduate programs. Please reach out to Sarah Tortella, Director of Graduate Recruitment, at stortella@ksu.edu or (785)532-6191.

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Graduate Student Success

As students are entering this phase of the semester, please remember that the Program of Study (POS) is to be submitted for full-time students at the end of their second semester and for part-time students, at the completion of 9 credit hours. Having a program of study in place early in the student’s graduate career provides a roadmap to support timely degree completion. When assisting students with developing their program of study, please follow requirements outlined in the Graduate Handbook.

For questions or more information, please contact Angela Pfizenmaier at akt@ksu.edu

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Masters and doctoral students planning to graduate in Fall 2022 need to submit the "KSIS graduation application form" by October 7 if they want their name to appear in the Fall 2022 commencement program booklet.

If students miss this deadline, they can still graduate and participate in Fall 2022 commencement if they meet other appropriate deadlines, and their name will be printed in the Spring 2023 commencement program.

For all dates and deadlines, please refer to the graduation and commencement checklists

For information about student success contact Dr. Megan Miller at mmmiller@ksu.edu

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Opportunities for Graduate Students

Join K-State Libraries every Monday from 1:30pm – 2:30pm, for The Library and Your Research, a free workshop series co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Council that helps graduate students enhance and professionalize their scholarly pursuits.

Developing Your Scholarly Identity, Oct. 10, 2022, register here.

Starting Your Literature Review in the Sciences, Oct. 17, 2022, register here

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Join the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) for another Professional Development Series. This is a great opportunity for graduate students who are interested in earning a TLC Professional Development certificate or in becoming a TLC Fellows over the course of this academic year. Application guidelines can be found on the Teaching and Learning Center website.

“Backward and Ungraded: Promoting Equity through Assessment”, October 5th at noon, Zoom Link here

“Creating Accessible Document”, October 12th at noon, Zoom Link here

For more information and the Fall 2022 Professional Development Series, please visit the website.

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Graduate students are invited to join this Grad Coffee Chat to engage with fellow graduate students and with Graduate School leadership to build community and learn about resources to support their success.

This informal chat will be on October 4th at noon in Eisenhower Hall, room 121.

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The 2022 Kansas State all-university career fair hosted by Handshake will be Wednesday, October 5th, from 11:00 am to 5:00pm CDT.

Students are able to meet with employers and participate in a 30-minute information session to learn about opportunities. Afterwards, students can respond to interview invitations from employers.

For more information regarding the career fair you can visit the website. Please direct any questions you may have to DeLon Barbour, Employer Relations Associate, at dbarb20@ksu.edu.

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Funding for Graduate Students

The Graduate School is now accepting nominations to support up to five Donoghue Scholarships for incoming graduate students beginning a master’s or doctoral program in Spring 2023.

This scholarship program was initiated by Timothy Donoghue, former Graduate School dean, as a way to recruit top candidates throughout the United States to attend K-State’s graduate programs by offering graduate assistantship packages that are highly competitive.

Application deadline: November 1, 2022

For more information on eligibility, funding guidelines and to submit your application please visit the webpage.

Please direct questions about the Timothy Donoghue scholarship to Miranda Schremmer at donoghuescholarship@ksu.edu or to the Graduate School at or 785-532-6191.

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The Graduate School will now award five scholarships each Fall and Spring semester for the Graduate Student Child Care Scholarship. This scholarship serves to relieve some of the financial burden of childcare expenses, facilitating degree progress of graduate students who are raising families. Five scholarships up to $1,000 each will be awarded each Fall and Spring Semester. Please encourage students to apply.

The deadline to submit an application for the Fall semester is October 17, 2022.

For more information and the application process, please visit the website.

For questions about the Graduate Student Child Care Scholarship, please contact Dr. Megan Miller at mmmiller@ksu.edu.

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Upcoming Events and Deadlines

Oct. 5

Teaching and Learning Center: Professional Development Series

Topic: “Backward and Ungraded: Promoting Equity through Assessment”

Oct. 7

Deadline to complete KSIS graduation application for name to appear in commencement program

Oct. 10

The Library and Your Research: Developing Your Scholarly Identity

Oct. 12

Teaching and Learning Center: Professional Development Series

Topic: “Creating Accessible Documents”

Oct. 17

The Library and Your Research: Starting Your Literature Review in the Sciences

Deadline for Fall Graduate Student Child Care Scholarship

Nov. 1

Deadline to apply for GSC travel award for professional events that begin anytime in January

Deadline for the Timothy R. Donoghue Graduate Scholarship

Grad Coffee Chats: Strengths: Maximizing your full potential in grad school

Nov. 11

Deadline to complete all degree requirements, submit signed exam and ETDR ballots and submit ETDR

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