
Led by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, GradFUTURES is a campus-wide professional development initiative empowering graduate students to envision their futures with clarity and confidence.
We Invite Faculty and Departments to:
- Work with us to create and promote stories, news and professional development-related events from your department. Here is a profile form that can be shared with graduate students, faculty and graduate alumni from your department. Using this form, they can provide a testimonial of support for graduate student professional development, and we will feature these profiles on our website and on social media.
- Invite us to present customized programming on departmental alumni outcomes and labor market analyses
- Collaborate with us to create professional development programs that augment or complement departmental conferences or symposiums.
- Facilitate an interdisciplinary learning cohort, a series of lunch or dinner conversations regarding the professional implications of current societal, industry or global trends
- Promote GradFUTURES events, programs and fellowship opportunities to your graduate students
- Join the campus-wide Professional Development Working Group that convenes quarterly to chart new directions for graduate student professional development
- Recommend former students and graduate alumni to be interviewed for our alumni video series
- Schedule a departmental meeting to discuss graduate alumni outcomes, job market trends and ways to share data regarding diverse careers
- Request customized professional development programs such as LinkedIn workshops that meet the unique needs of graduate students within your department
- Attend the GradFUTURES Forum, a campus-wide professional development conference for graduate students, alumni, faculty and staff. Learn more: bit.ly/FUTURESForum
Ways GradFUTURES Can Partner with Your Department
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We will work with your department to craft a LinkedIn profile workshop that is customized for your department's particular needs.
Email [email protected] for more!
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These include: "Job Placement Data for Ph.D.s in Engineering" and "All Careers for Humanities Ph.D.s: Planning for the Future" (Comparative Literature).
Contact James M. Van Wyck at [email protected]
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Current Departments participating include English, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Contact James M. Van Wyck at [email protected]
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We are currently working with departments (ranging from Comparative Literature to Physics) to create bespoke programs and events.
Email [email protected] to set up a meeting!