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Academic Task Force - Graduate Reform: Student Support

Revised Recommendations
(Feb. 10, 2006)

Mission

To create a strategic plan for identifying, recruiting, retaining, mentoring, advising, and timely graduating world-class graduate and professional students.

Deliverables

  • Recommendations regarding best practices for identifying, recruiting, retaining, supporting, mentoring, advising, and timely graduating the very best intellectually curious, motivated graduate and professional students.
  • Recommendations regarding ways to improve the infrastructure and culture of graduate and professional education.
  • Recommendations regarding how to better integrate graduate student related policies at both the University and the collegiate levels.
  • Recommendations regarding how best to convey and develop graduate and professional education at the University as a public, and not solely a private, good.
  • Recommendations regarding the improvement of services, quality, efficiency, timeliness, etc., and the streamlining of processes to improve the reach and impact of graduate programs, especially programs for working adults.
  • Recommendations regarding the streamlining of administrative processes, including better alignment with enterprise systems serving undergraduate students.

Report due: December 10, 2005

PDF version of Task force charge letter from E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Academic chart

Task Force Cochairs

  • Ed Schiappa, Professor and Chair Communication Studies, CLA
  • Tim Ebner, Professor and Head, Neuroscience, Med

Task Force Members

Name Position, Department, College
Gary Balas
 Professor, Aerospace Eng/Mech, IT
Karen Buhr
 Graduate student, Forest Resources, CNR
Brenda Child
 Associate Professor, American Studies, CLA
Edward Goetz

Professor, HHH
Faith Loven
 Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, UMD
Diane (Dee) Tedick

Associate Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, CEHD
Andrew Warta
 Graduate student, Chemical Eng/MatSci, IT
Patricia Jones Whyte Acting Director, Office of Graduate School Outreach, Grad

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