EO Report
- Dissertation Fellowships
- Students in program received 3 Dissertation Year Fellowships, 1 Ralph Bunche fellowship, 1 Center for Place Culture and Politics fellowship
- 7 Doctoral Student Research Grants
- administration working on providing health insurance in dissertation fellowships
- problem is that must be employment line to receive health insurance, but fellowships usually come without any service obligation
- GC-wide, 70 fellowships
- Will be attempt to expand program funding of sending students to do research
- Would come with requirement to present research in some form to program/GC (perhaps expansion of student conference)
- Admissions and Fall cohort
- Impressionistically, R.Petchesky thinks this is the highest quality pool yet; J.Rollins – got 92% of first-tier candidates to come
- J.Rollins ascribes this to new fellowship
- Received 1 Magnet Fellowship
- Theory = 3, Comparative = 3, IR = 3, American = 2, Policy = 2
- Special shout-out by Petchesky and Woodward to Mike Miller and Jamie Aroosi for their work on the admissions committee
- Thanks to students who talked to prospective students
- Will be some kind of Orientation on August 27
- Impressionistically, R.Petchesky thinks this is the highest quality pool yet; J.Rollins – got 92% of first-tier candidates to come
- Grad Student Conference successful
- Also used as recruitment, some prospective students came
- Alumni Awards Night is May 9, everyone should come
- 5:30 reception in lounge; 6:30 Awards in Segal Theatre
Faculty Membership
- 2 new faculty added
- Jillian Schwedler (primary appt will be Hunter)
- Michael Fortner (primary appt will be Murphy Institute)
- 2 potential new faculty tabled until they teach a class, further involved in department, etc.
- Lina Newton (Hunter)
- Zachary Shirky (Hunter)
Advisement
- there will be some kind of formalized procedure for advisement in incoming students’ first few years before they develop closer relationships and before finding a dissertation sponsor
- likely to be assigned to central line faculty in identified subfield of incoming student
‘Pass With Distinction’ on 2nd Exam and Defense
- There is a “Pass With Distinction” option on the 2nd Exam currently which applies only within department (in student’s department file, but does not go to registrar, etc.)
- There was some talk of doing away with the option
- Questions over whether it’s actually useful for funding applications, job letters, etc.
- Ultimately decided to keep status quo
- Will be exploration of adding a Distinction option to the Dissertation Defense as well
- Will be some research on what other programs do
- Potentially helpful for job letters, for communications with publishers