Graduate School Bulletin
January 11, 2023
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Welcome to the Spring Semester!
Faculty and Staff
- Department Head Meeting
- Electronic Forms
- Accelerated Program Catalog Page Updates
- Graduate Faculty Professional Development Panels
- Graduate employment opportunities in the Graduate School
Upcoming Events & Deadlines
Admissions
Recruitment
Program Coordinators
Graduate Student Success
Opportunities for Graduate Students
Funding for Graduate Students
Upcoming Events and Deadlines
Welcome to the Spring Semester!
The Graduate School welcomes you to a new semester. We wish you a great Spring 2023 semester and a successful 2023!
Faculty and Staff
The Graduate School strives to build a stronger relationship with the department heads to better support graduate programs.
This meeting will be held on January 24th from 3:00-4:00 pm in Leadership Studies, Room 127. Please RSVP by Monday, January 23rd.
For information about this event, please contact Miranda Schremmer at mquint@ksu.edu
The Graduate School is currently working with the Division of Information Technology to migrate our electronic forms from the Decisions workflow tool to Softdocs, K-State’s new enterprise electronic forms and workflow solution. Form development in Softdocs is nearing completion and functional testing will be completed by Graduate School team members in cooperation with Information Technology team members. The Graduate School will provide informational sessions and training to graduate program directors and support staff prior to “go live” for electronic forms in Softdocs. The Division of Information Technology will also add information/instruction articles to the Service Portal Knowledge Base for all university users. The Graduate School will provide updates on progress in the Graduate School Bulletin with information on training to be offered in person and online beginning in February.
“Concurrent Degree Programs” have been renamed “Accelerated Programs” last academic year. The Graduate School updated all the names in the Catalog and on our website. When we launched this change, we also changed the timing of awarding the Bachelor Degree. Now, the Bachelor degree component of the accelerated degree is being awarded when the student completes all the bachelor degree requirements.
We’d like your support with updating the accelerated program’s page on your department’s website with this information (the title and the awarding of the degree). The Graduate School has launched an effort to update the catalog pages to update the awarding of degree information. All changes will show up in the new Catalog.
If you have any questions about this change, please contact Dr. Michael Young, Graduate Faculty Associate, Graduate School at michaelyoung@ksu.edu.
The Graduate School has partnered with the Teaching and Learning Center to invite the Graduate Faculty Community and Graduate Assistants to participate in a series of professional development panels.
The purpose of these panels is discuss how to get started (and stay productive) in research, scholarly and creative activities, and design (RSCAD) at K-State; how to resolve conflict; and how to navigate department/college/university politics (see detailed information below).
“The Highs and Lows of the Faculty Life: Lessons from Experience”
Date: Friday, January 13th, 2023
Time: 9:00-10:30 am - How to get started (and stay productive) in research, scholarly and creative activities, and design (RSCAD) at K-State
10:45 am-12:15 pm - How to resolve conflict and navigate department/college/university politics location: Union Cottonwood Room
To attend one or both events, please register here.
For questions about this Professional Development initiative, contact Dr. Marcellus Caldas, Graduate Faculty Associate in the Graduate School (caldasma@ksu.edu) and/or Dr. Don Saucier, Faculty Associate Director, Teaching & Learning Center (saucier@ksu.edu)
The Graduate School has open positions for two graduate assistants to support Graduate School initiatives and operations. Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis until the positions are filled. Position details are available on the Graduate School website (linked below), and the positions are listed in Handshake. Please encourage your students to apply for these positions,especially if they have an interest in working in higher education or in any managerial position.
- Graduate Assistant position announcement; direct questions about this position to Megan Miller at mmmiller@ksu.edu.
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Jan. 13 |
Graduate Faculty Professional Development Panels: “The Highs and Lows of the Faculty Life: Lessons from Experience” 9:00 am – 12:30 pm, Location: Union Cottonwood Room |
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Jan. 18 |
Mid-Cycle review: Check in session for finalizing submission |
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Jan. 24 |
Graduate Department Head Meeting |
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Jan. 25 |
Mid-Cycle review: Check in session for finalizing submission |
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Jan. 31 |
Nomination deadline for Fall 2023 Timothy R. Donoghue Graduate Scholarship |
Admissions
The Graduate School received over 300 applications over the weekend and is working hard to process the applications for Spring 2023 as quickly as possible. If you still have domestic applications awaiting a decision for Spring, please submit the program recommendation as soon as possible.
For questions regarding application processing, please direct them to Joe Horan, Graduate Admissions Manager, at jphoran@ksu.edu.
Departments that wish to pay the application fee for graduate applicants may purchase fee waiver codes from the Graduate School. Purchased codes may be given to prospective students so that their application fee is waived. Codes are available in any quantity, but please order in batches if you plan to use several. When purchasing, please indicate the quantity of Domestic ($65) and/or International ($75) waiver codes that are required.
Requests and questions should be sent to Joe Horan, Graduate Admissions Manager, at jphoran@ksu.edu.
Please keep in mind that late arrivals for International students are not normally approved due to the multiple units and agencies involved in processing an arrival, and because delays to arrival may impact when a student on an assistantship can begin receiving their stipend. For questions about arrival dates please contact gradintladmt@ksu.edu.
Recruitment
The Graduate School’s webinar series continued December 21st and January 4th with a combined 340 registered, 68 were in attendance on December 21st and 60 in attendance on January 4th.
The next Graduate School Webinar is Wednesday, January 18th at 6 pm titled Student Services for Graduate Students, in which we will be discuss the different student services offered at K-State. All open house and webinar events are on the
Graduate School Admission site: https://www.k-state.edu/grad/admissions/informational_sessions/
The webinars can be viewed on our YouTube Channel K-State Graduate School - YouTube
For broader communication and recruitment efforts across graduate programs a Graduate Recruitment Folder in MS Teams has been created. In the Teams folder we will be sharing digital Graduate School promotional materials, webinar, open house and events schedules. If you are interested in contributing to the Graduate School Recruitment events, please reach out. Additionally, we are in the process of providing access the folder to graduate programs coordinators, graduate advisors and staff members. Anybody else interested in having access to this folder, contact Sarah Tortella.
For direct questions or to be added to the graduate recruitment team, please contact Sarah Tortella, Director of Graduate Recruitment, at stortella@ksu.edu.
Program Coordinators
The Graduate School continues piloting a new program review (PR) process that was developed in collaboration with the Graduate Council Assessment and Review Committee (ARC) and with the Graduate Council. The new graduate PR process provides graduate programs with the tools needed to pro-actively make decisions about their future.
The following programs are scheduled for mid-cycle review for reporting year 2023:
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Program Name |
Degree Offered |
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Communication Studies |
M |
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English |
M |
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Fine Arts |
M |
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Modern Languages |
M |
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Music |
M |
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Theatre |
M |
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Diag, Deliber, and Public Engmnt |
Cert |
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Teaching Engl Foreign Lang |
Cert |
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Tech Writing and Prof Communication |
Cert |
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Biochemistry |
M, D |
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Biology |
M, D |
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Microbiology |
D |
Source: https://app.powerbi.com/reportEmbed?reportId=2b05a6a9-5521-4ef5-a788-1a7648c3952c&autoAuth=true&ctid=d9a2fa71-d67d-4cb6-b541-06ccaa8013fb. K-State eID required.
Spring 2023 timeline for the mid-cycle review:
January 18, 2023 and January 25, 2023– Check-in session for finalizing submission
February 1 2023 – Deadline for PR submission for mid-cycle programs; send to gradinfo@ksu.edu
April 2023 – Mid-cycle programs receive feedback from Graduate Council
For questions, please contact Timon Smock, Office Specialist III, at tmsmock@ksu.edu
Graduate Student Success
The Graduate School invited graduate students to the welcome and orientation activities starting January 9, 2023. Below are dates for sessions scheduled in January.
- Welcome and orientation activities (view a detailed schedule)
- Orientation for new international students (organized by International Student and Scholar Services) – Jan 9-12
- Welcome session for all new grad students (organized by the Graduate School) – Jan 11 (in-person, 9:00am; virtual, 1:00pm)
- Getting Started Checklists and Tutorials
In addition to in-person and virtual sessions to support new graduate students, the Graduate School also has checklists and tutorials on our website to guide incoming graduate students through the K-State onboarding process (e.g., enrolling in classes, and accessing technology). We also have guidance specifically for new international students and for grad students who are starting an assistantship. Explore the Guides to Getting Started.
Graduate students who are writing a thesis, dissertation, or report are encouraged to attend this session for guidance on using the ETDR formatting templates. The session will be held via Zoom on Jan. 27, 2023, from 1:00-2:30 pm.
Click here to register for the ETDR Templates Training Session.
Opportunities for Graduate Students
Please share the following information with your graduate students
The Graduate Student Council will soon be accepting abstracts for the annual K-State Graduate Research, Arts, and Discovery (GRAD) Forum. This event is an excellent opportunity for students to share their research or scholarly work with the K-State community and develop their presentation and communication skills. Poster presentations will be held March 8th and oral presentations will be on March 9th. Awards will be given to the most outstanding presentations. The abstract submission deadline is January 31.
Click here for registration.
Funding for Graduate Students
The Graduate School encourages students to apply for the upcoming Sarachek Graduate Fellowship and the Graduate Student Child Care Scholarship.
The Sarachek Graduate Fellowship award is intended to recognize exceptional achievement in scholastics and research. An award of $17,600 is provided to a graduate student enrolled in a PhD program at Kansas State University. The nomination deadline is March 1, 2023.
For more information regarding the Sarachek Graduate Fellowship, please visit the webpage.
The Graduate Student Child Care 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 this Spring Semester. The application deadline is March 1, 2023.
For more information regarding the Graduate Student Child Care Scholarship, please visit the webpage.
Upcoming Events and Deadlines
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Jan. 9 -12 |
Orientation for new international students |
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Jan. 11 |
Welcome session for all new grad students. in-person, 9:00am; virtual, 1:00pm |
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Jan. 18 |
The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) deadline |
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Jan. 23 |
2023 Department of Energy Scholars Program deadline |
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Jan. 27 |
L’Oréal USA For Women in Science program application deadline |