STUDENT ANXIETY: EFFECTS OF A NEW GRADUATE STUDENT ORIENTATION PROGRAM

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Hullinger ◽  
R. Lance Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Orientation Program ◽  
Student Orientation ◽  
Student Anxiety ◽  
New Graduate

scholarly journals “I Love How We Developed a Community Already”: A Graduate Student Orientation Model for Minority-Serving Programs and Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Magdalena L. Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Student Orientation ◽  
New Graduate ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees

In recent years, an increasing number of universities have qualified as Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), thanks in part to significant growth in the numbers of Latinx students who are enrolling in bachelor’s degree programs. A greater proportion of this student population is completing bachelor’s degrees and continuing into master’s and doctoral programs. Nevertheless, graduate orientation remains overlooked despite being a rich opportunity to support the identity development of Latinx students. This pedagogical reflection contributes to the discussion of Latinx student experiences by exploring an innovative approach to new graduate student orientation for a master’s program in a Chicana/o Studies department at an MSI. The orientation provides holistic support for Latinx students by building an academic community founded on mutual support and bringing greater transparency to the hidden curriculum of graduate education that often elides Latinx students. The essay explores insights from student feedback on the orientation and provides reflection questions to help departments and MSIs bring a more equity-minded, supportive approach to welcoming and retaining new Latinx graduate students.

An Early Graduate Program in Computers and Communications

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur W. Burks
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Electronic Computer ◽  
Advanced Study ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Graduate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Electronic Computers ◽  
John Holland

This is the story of how, in 1957, John Holland, a graduate student in mathematics; Gordon Peterson, a professor of speech; the present writer, a professor of philosophy; and several other Michigan faculty started a graduate program in Computers and Communications—with John our first Ph.D. and, I believe, the world's first doctorate in this now-burgeoning field. This program was to become the Department of Computer and Communication Sciences in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts about ten years later. It had arisen also from a research group at Michigan on logic and computers that I had established in 1949 at the request of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. When I first met John in 1956, he was a graduate of MIT in electrical engineering, and one of the few people in the world who had worked with the relatively new electronic computers. He had used the Whirlwind I computer at MIT [33], which was a process-control variant of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Computer [27]. He had also studied the 1946 Moore School Lectures on the design of electronic computers, edited by George Patterson [58]. He had then gone to IBM and helped program its first electronic computer, the IBM 701, the first commercial version of the IAS Computer. While a graduate student in mathematics at Michigan, John was also doing military work at the Willow Run Research Laboratories to support himself. And 1 had been invited to the Laboratories by a former student of mine, Dr. Jesse Wright, to consult with a small research group of which John was a member. It was this meeting that led to the University's graduate program and then the College's full-fledged department. The Logic of Computers Group, out of which this program arose, in part, then continued with John as co-director, though each of us did his own research. This anomaly of a teacher of philosophy meeting an accomplished electrical engineer in the new and very small field of electronic computers needs some explanation, one to be found in the story of the invention of the programmable electronic computer. For the first three programmable electronic computers (the manually programmed ENIAC and the automatically programmed EDVAC and Institute for Advanced Study Computer) and their successors constituted both the instrumentation and the subject matter of our new Graduate Program in Computers and Communications.

scholarly journals Student Satisfaction With Orientation

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Nadler ◽  
Michael T. Miller ◽  
Jennifer Casebere
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Orientation Programs ◽  
Orientation Program ◽  
Student Orientation ◽  
New Student Orientation ◽  
Cas Standards ◽  
Personal Success ◽  
New Student

Orientation programs are vital to a new student's acculturation to the campus community, and have been linked to students' long-term academic and personal success on campus. The Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) Standards for New Student Orientation provide a meaningful guide for program development and assessment. These CAS Standards were utilized over a two-year period to assess Tulane University's new student orientation program. The results of the assessments have prompted the professional staff at Tulane to examine the rationale behind each of the orientation program's activities and intentions.

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