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May 2012 News and Notes

Co-Chair Message

We (Jessica Edonick and Mary Hall) are the new National Co-Chairs of the Administrators for Graduate and Professional Student Services Knowledge Community (AGAPSS KC), effective the last day of the NASPA Conference in Phoenix.  Jessica is currently the director for Commuter, Graduate and Transfer Student Programs and Services at Drexel University and Mary is the assistant director of the Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program at the University of Virginia.  We are both honored to serve in this role and look forward to working with you over the next two years as we build on the great foundation set by previous AGAPSS chairs.  On that note, and on behalf of the AGAPSS community, we would like to thank Liz Thurston at Harvard University for her leadership over the past two years.  Finally, please bear with us these first few months as we transition into the role of co-chairs and begin planning for Summer 2012 and beyond.  

 

Looking forward to an exciting two years!

 

Jessica & Mary

AGAPSS KC National Co-Chairs, 2012-2014

 

 

Brief Notes @ the 2012 NASPA Conference

Annual AGAPSS KC Pre-conference Session

More than forty of our colleagues attended the 2012 NASPA AGAPSS pre-conference in sunny Phoenix, including 8 new participants who had either not attended a NASPA National Conference or not attended an AGAPSS pre-con prior to this year.  While we did break with the AGAPSS tradition of coordinating with a local institution to host the session - the full-day session was at the Sheraton - we had active roundtable discussions and an outstanding presentation on assessment. 

 

The morning roundtables included Technology, Managing Resources & Funding, Policies and Advocacy for Graduate Students, and Organizational Structure and Policy (broken into Law/Medicine/Professional Schools, Doctoral/Research, and Masters/Liberal Arts).  We would like to thank the facilitators for leading great conversations through the morning: Liz Thurston (past AGAPSS KC Chair), Harvard; Katherine Hall-Hertel, UNC Charlotte; Marguerite Sharkey, NYU School of Law; DeAnna Chung, UPenn; Andree Robinson-Neal, Azusa Pacific University; Monika Gibson, Virginia Tech; and Angela Fleekop, University of San Francisco. 

 

The afternoon session, "One Size Does Not Fit All:  The Challenge of Assessment in Graduate and Professional Student Services" was presented by Katie O'Dair, Boston College and Annemakie Rice and Joe Levy, Campus Labs.  Thank you Katie, Annemakie, and Joe for an excellent presentation!  Notes and highlights from the roundtables and the presentation slides from the afternoon will be posted on the AGAPSS KC website.

 

 

Conference Sessions

The following conference sessions were relevant to the AGAPSS community; the presentations marked with an ** are available on the NASPA Annual Conference Presentation Archives (members-only):

 

  • Building a Comprehensive Research Agenda for AGAPSS
  • Graduate Student Orientation: From Development to Assessment (AGAPSS-sponsored)**
  • Holistic Programming for Graduate Students
  • Growing Green: Cultivating Graduate Students through Gardens**
  • First-Generation African Men in Graduate School
  • Graduate Students Studying Abroad: Seeking the Globalism Thread
  • A Win-Win: Pairing Graduate Coursework with Divisional Assessment**
  • Rethinking Graduate Education and Training in Student Affairs
  • Supporting Today the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Graduate Student Experience Center

Announcements

NEW! LinkedIn Group

Thanks to LisaBeth Greene (NYU Sackler Institute), AGAPSS has a new presence in social media!  Please join us by going to linkedin.com and selecting NASPA | Administrators in Graduate and Professional Student Services from the Group pull-down list.

 

 

NEW! Twitter

Thanks to Ana Rossetti (Illinois Institute of Technology, Stuart School of Business), we can tweet about happenings in the post-baccelaureate relm of higher education.  #AGAPSS 

Also look for #SAchat, #emchat, #acadv, among others.

 

 

AGAPSS KC Regional Representatives

Please welcome the newest AGAPSS KC Regional Representatives as part of your leadership team:

 

Valerie Shepard, Co-Representative Region VI

Program Manager, Graduate Student Resource Center

University of California, Los Angeles  

 

Shana Slebioda, Co-Representative Region VI

Lead Graduate Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

University of California, San Diego

 

Dan Volchok, Representative Region I

Director, Program and Student Services

Graduate School of Business Administration

Northeastern University

 

 

Planning for 2012-2013

Bold without Boundaries, 2013 NASPA Annual Conference, March 16 - 20, 2013, Orlando, Florida

We will begin planning for the 2013 AGAPSS Pre-conference proposal soon.  Ideas were solicited at various sessions in Phoenix, but we would also like to hear from colleagues who were unable to join us last month, so will be sending an invitation to gather that information and ask for volunteers for the planning committee soon.

 

Opportunities for Involvement in AGAPSS 

In addition to the Pre-conference planning committee, the following committees will be formed later this month (May) and early June to work on the these additional initiatives: 

 

  • Sponsored programs for the 2013 NASPA conference 
  • Create and maintain an annotated bibliography for the AGAPSS KC (and broader graduate and professional education community)
  • Educational and Professional Development (webinars, etc.)

AGAPSS SPOTLIGHT - APRIL 2012

Ana Rossetti, AGAPSS KC Regional Representative for Region IV-East, will be leading discussions about AGAPSS issues on Twitter, April 1 - 7, 2012.   Follow her @AnaMRossetti or look for #AGAPSS and #Region4E.  All AGAPSS members in Region IV-East are encouraged to participate, but any AGAPSS member is welcome!

Not a Twitter user yet? Ana suggests learning more about Twitter in the context of Higher Ed and Student Affairs by reading a blog post by Ed Cabellon, Bridgewater State University, at http://edcabellon.com/tech/teachingtwitter/.  

 

AGAPSS Newsletter Fall 2011

Webinar

New Models of Leadership Development for Graduate and Professional Students webinar on November 10 @ 4PM. Don't delay - register today!

Led by Evan Witt, Graduate Coordinator for the Minor in Leadership Studies and Leadership Development Programs and Joshua Hiscock, Graduate Coordinator for the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (NCLP, University of Maryland - College Park

AGAPSS Publication

The Fall 2011 Edition of NASPA's Excellence in Practice: Knowledge Communities Publication features AGAPSS article, The Few, the Proud, the Finished: Dissertation Boot Camp as a Model for Doctoral Student Support by Anita Mastroieni, Director and DeAnna Cheung, Associate Director, Graduate Student Center, University of Pennsylvania.

AGAPSS NASPA 2012 Preconference

One Size Does Not Fit All – The Challenge of Assessment in Graduate and Professional Student Services

DATE: Sunday, March 11, 2012
TIME: FULL DAY from 9am-4pm
LOCATION: Phoenix Convention Center
REGISTER

Presenters: Katie O’Dair, Boston College and Annemieke Rice, StudentVoice

With increasing calls for internal and external accountability, it is imperative that administrators in graduate and professional student services be able to understand and apply assessment practices within their work, to gather evidence on student learning and the student experience. This pre-conference workshop will help participants understand the basic process for assessment planning, will explore learning outcomes development, discuss the political and practical implications of sharing your data, and allow participants to develop an assessment plan of their own.

Background and Workshop Overview

This workshop will essentially be organized in two distinct sessions. The first part of the pre-conference will be focused on Key Issues in Graduate and Professional Student Services, as participants will break out in small groups with structured discussions being led by a facilitator. The critical issues will be identified prior to the conference through polling the AGAPSS constituency. Each group will generate key points, resources, and best practices through a template.

Yours truly,
Liz Thurston
AGAPSS Chair

2011 Summer Listserv

Announcements

New Models of Leadership Development for Graduate and Professional Students webinar on November 10 @ 4PM. Don't delay - register today!

Update your Member Profile

First, if you haven’t updated your profile in NASPA in a while, this is a good time to do so. Make sure to check off the AGAPSS KC and include any information that may help us help you! For example, if you work exclusively with a particular demographic (phD, law, medical, etc) students, let us know. We strive to connect our members with each other and your updated profile helps us do so!

AGAPSS Listserve

If you are not on our AGAPSS listserv and receiving our communications, we encourage you to join the listserv. It is a separate process from joining the KC. This means, just checking the AGAPSS box does not sign you up for our listserv. You must OPT IN by emailing the NASPA Office Liaison (jdesanto@naspa.org) to join.

Are you on our listserv but haven't joined the KC? Please update your member profile.

National Co-Chair Elects

As many of you may know, Jessica Edonick from Drexel University and Mary Hall from the University of Virginia, were elected as AGAPSS National Co-Chairs Elect. I will be working closely with them during this year, and they will officially become National Chair-Elects at the upcoming NASPA 2012 Conference in Phoenix! Congratulations to Mary and Jessica!

Newsletter

Our AGAPSS newsletter will be coming out later this fall, so register for the listserv if you want to receive the newsletter! I want to thank DeAnna Cheung from the University of Pennsylvania and Lisabeth Greene from New York University, for agreeing to head up our web communications and the newsletter!!

AGAPSS Pre-Conference 2012

Our NASPA Pre-Conference workshop is a signature event for our Knowledge Community. A planning committee is underway for our Pre-Conference proposal. More details in the coming months, and we hope that you will join us in Phoenix in 2012.

Yours truly,
Liz Thurston
AGAPSS Chair