Resources for Graduate Coordinators
Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarship (RCRS)
The RCRS website provides links to materials about important issues in the responsible and professional conduct of research and scholarship. It includes links to other comprehensive websites that provide teaching materials, modules, and case studies organized around key topics. It also has links to policies, articles, and other material that can be downloaded, and titles of particularly useful books available in the University Library.
New & Continuing Graduate Staff Training
Rackham Graduate School provides workshops supporting graduate coordinators and program staff throughout the University of Michigan. Access to this section requires your uniqname and password. Login to the New & Continuing Graduate Staff Training section.
Graduate Coordinators Forum
The Graduate Coordinators Forum was started in Spring 2003 to provide a venue through which graduate coordinators share information, network and suggest enhancements in protocols for graduate student administration.
It is hoped that the events planned for each academic year will be helpful to new as well as established staff working in graduate student administration. There are six forums throughout the year (listed below). Participants can RSVP for each forum by clicking on the link for the forum under "Forum Topic" below. RSVP‘s will be accepted within one month of the listed event.
Mission
The Mission of the Graduate Coordinators Forum is to facilitate and support graduate education by promoting exemplary service to graduate students. We seek to create avenues for graduate coordinators to collaborate, learn, strategize, network and affect changes within the University administration. An objective of the forum is to bring together all graduate coordinators from Rackham and other graduate programs to generate proposals for centralizing and standardizing student services information, policies and practices. The forum will establish and foster a network for staff in graduate student administration in support of the University’s overall educational mission.
Structure of Forums
- 10:00-10:10 Introductions
- 10:10-11:15 Speaker presentations
- 11:15-12:00 Question/Answer session and networking
Forums will offer presentations by one or more speakers, and some may have a panel discussion.
2011-12 Forum Schedule
- Wednesday, August 10, 2011: Benefits Forum
- Wednesday, October 12, 2011: Fellowships and Disbursement
- Wednesday, December 14, 2011: Admissions Networking
- Wednesday, February 8, 2012: Graduate Student Training
- Wednesday, April 11, 2012: Professional Development
- Wednesday, June 13, 2012: Graduate Admissions Online Evaluation System
- Wednesday, August 8, 2012: Benefits Forum
Graduate Forum Planning Committee
- Nancy Harris, Comparative Literature
- Anne Hudon, Earth and Environmental Sciences; Co-Chair
- Matt Irelan, IOE (Industrial and Operations Engineering
- Heather Arlene MacFarland, Population Studies
- Shannon Marshall, Clinical Research
- Michelle Spornhauer, Ford School of Public Policy; Co-Chair
- Jane Sullivan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Christina Zigulis, Physics
Committee E-mail Group: gcfpc@umich.edu