Colleagues,
We are pleased to share the call for participation for the 5th annual
Consortium on Graduate Communication Summer Institute, “Meeting Graduate
Students Where They Are,” to be held June 18 – 20, 2020 at Duquesne
University in Pittsburgh, PA.
The CGC is an international association whose members provide professional
development in written, oral, and multimodal communication to students
before and during their graduate academic and professional programs. The
summer institute offers an opportunity to discuss and share resources,
pedagogy, research, curricula, and program models for graduate
communication, all in a collegial setting that emphasizes conversation and
collaborations across units and disciplines.
Learn more about the venue and affordable options for lodging at
https://www.gradconsortium.org/meetings/cgc-2020-summer-institute-pittsburgh/
. To learn more about the travel scholarships, visit
https://www.gradconsortium.org/feak-and-swales-travel-scholarship-application/
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. To learn more about the CGC, visit our webpage at
https://www.gradconsortium.org/.
Looking forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh,
Linda Macri and Susan Lawrence
Co-Chairs, Consortium on Graduate Communication
*Consortium on Graduate Communication Summer Institute 2020*
June 18 – 20
Pittsburgh, PA
*Meeting Graduate Students Where They Are*
Call for Participation
As higher education continues to evolve, our graduate students come from
and are headed towards increasingly diverse settings. Embedded in the CGC
mission statement is the recognition that many graduate students study in
locations far removed from their home cultures and often in second and
additional languages. Increased enrollments among students from
historically unserved groups, such as students of color, first-generation
graduate students, and students with disabilities, have enhanced diversity
in the landscape of graduate education.
Diversity is also emerging in terms of academic experience and pursuits.
Graduate students may be enrolled in academic or professional certificates,
or masters or doctoral degrees, and in programs that may be traditionally
face-to-face, hybrid, or fully online. Furthermore, they may be full-time
students supported by graduate assistantships or full-time professionals
attending graduate school part time. And while some graduate students wish
to pursue careers in the academy, many others choose entrepreneurship or
careers in industry, government, and NGOs. Recognizing this trend, the
Council of Graduate Schools and the National Academy of Sciences recommend
that graduate programs focus attention on preparing students to enter a
range of careers (National Academy of Sciences, 2018; Okahana, 2019).
With this heterogeneity comes a complex set of communication needs.
Graduate students bring with them a wealth of linguistic, communicative,
cultural, and educational resources, yet university programming and
institutional structures do not always (or often) support them in
maximizing those assets to achieve their educational and professional
goals.
The 2020 CGC Summer Institute asks graduate communication professionals to
consider the array of contexts in which graduate students must act as
communicators, as well as the forms their communication may take. We invite
participants to explore what it means to meet graduate students where they
are.Such an inquiry might address questions like these:
- How do—and should—shifting demographics in graduate education shift
our approaches to support? How do we work toward inclusion and equity for
all students?
- What assets (from their languages, cultures, previous professions,
past education, and home communities, etc.) do graduate students bring with
them to their graduate programs, and how can we help them leverage those
assets in service of their writing/communication and professional goals?
- What do we know about where graduate students are, including when in
their graduate careers they need and seek communication support, and how do
we (institutionally, programmatically, as a research community) gather
information about their communication needs and assets?
- What are the genres, modalities, and media of communication that
graduate students use in their current and future educational and
professional contexts, and how can we support their diverse communication
needs?
- What are the roles and potentials of technology for mediating,
reshaping, enhancing, and scaling up graduate communication support?
- Who should decide what the priorities are for graduate student
communication—and who should provide the resources to respond to those
priorities?
- What partnerships among various spaces on campus do/could/should exist
to enhance graduate communication support, no matter where graduate
students are?
To explore these questions or other issues pertaining to meeting your
graduate communicators where they are, the Institute will feature keynotes,
works-in-progress sessions, workshops, and special-interest networking
sessions. Participants are welcome to submit proposals for
works-in-progress sessions, special-interest networking sessions, and
workshops, or attend the Institute to “listen and learn.”
Registration opens on Monday, January 13.
*Proposals*
*Workshops*
* Proposals due Friday, March 1 by 11:59 PM EST *Experienced practitioners
will share nuts-and-bolts approaches to teaching- and administration-
related topics in graduate communication support. Workshops will provide
professional development opportunities for those who are new to the field
or exploring new graduate communication initiatives or approaches.
Workshops will take place on Thursday and Friday afternoons and will not
incur a separate fee. Workshop leaders are invited to propose 90-minute
sessions on an area of expertise in graduate communication support.
Please note that there will be limited slots for workshops, so it is
possible that a number of qualified proposals will not be selected. For
example, if we receive three proposals for oral communication workshops, we
will likely only select one of them in the interest of providing a good
range of workshop topics. All applicants whose workshops are not selected
will be given the option to submit a Works-in-Progress proposal.
Workshop proposals will be reviewed and selected based on the following
criteria:
- Proposal quality —Clarity of goals and deliverables, as well as
emphasis on hands-on activities, will be considered in the selection
process.
- Diversity of topics—We aim to offer workshops focused on topics that
are relevant to participants from a wide range of backgrounds. For this
reason, it is possible that a high quality proposal will not be chosen if
the topic is too similar to one already in the lineup.
- Experience—Because the workshops are meant to give participants who
are newer to graduate communication support the opportunity to learn from
those with more experience, professional experience will be considered. We
are not looking for “stars” in the field so much as perspective on the
topic gained through trial and error.
Workshop proposals should provide the following information:
- Workshop title
- Workshop topic
- Names and institutional affiliations for all workshop speakers/
organizers
- A brief description of your qualifications for leading a workshop on
this topic
- Intended audience
- Is your workshop suitable for participants who work with students
from a wide variety of backgrounds (L1, L2, international,
domestic), or is
it designed for participants who work with a specific student population?
- Workshop description (limit: 500 words)
- Describe each workshop organizer’s role.
- What (if anything) should participants bring to the workshop?
- What hands-on activities will participants engage in during the
workshop?
- What is the goal, outcome, or deliverable of the workshop?
*Special Interest Networking Sessions*
* Proposals due Friday, April 24, 2020 by 11:59 PM EST *Many people attend
the Summer Institute in order to interact with and learn from other
practitioners who are engaged in similar projects. While the workshops and
works-in-progress sessions offer the opportunity for interactions focused
on a specific topic, there is also a need for less structured
conversations, collaboration, and feedback. The purpose of these sessions
is to fill this gap and allow for explicit time to network around issues
and topics.
Participants who are interested in exploring a relevant topic in an
informal setting are invited to propose a session of about 60 minutes and
to serve as the facilitator of the discussion.
Please note that these forums should not include formal presentations.
Instead, they should provide an opportunity for open discussion.
Special Interest Networking proposals should provide the following
information:
- Names of facilitators (limited to two)
- Session title
- A brief description of the session that answers the following
questions in no more than 250 words
- What topic do you hope to discuss?
- What is the exigency for this discussion, and what do you hope to
accomplish?
- Which other participants do you encourage to participate?
(Information you might discuss here includes but is not limited to job
descriptions, goals, and research, teaching, and or administrative
interests.) In what ways might these participants benefit from the
discussion?
- A brief list of questions that you’ll invite participants to explore
- Strategies you might use to create an interactive discussion
The number of Special Interest Networking sessions accepted will depend on
space in the program. Session leaders will be notified of acceptance status
shortly after registration closes. Those who are not selected to lead a
session will be invited to give a works-in-progress presentation.
*Works-in-Progress Sessions*
* Proposals due Friday, April 21, 2020 by 11:59 PM EST*
Present a 10-minute synopsis of your work in graduate communication program
administration, course design, pedagogy, tutoring, materials development,
or research, and end with a problem or question for discussion. Presenters
will be grouped in strands according to areas of interest in order to
listen to each other’s presentations and engage in substantive discussion
(approximately 20 minutes). Enter a short abstract (limit: 250 words) of
your presentation on the registration form. You will also be prompted to
choose the strand that best fits your proposal:
1. Research—share work-in-progress reporting scholarly and/or
institutional research
2. Pedagogy—share course designs, writing assignment designs, and
pedagogical approaches,
3. Theory—what does theory look like in our context?
4. Tutoring Approaches/Communication support outside the classroom
5. Negotiating Campus Politics—working conditions, finding campus
allies, arguing for budgets
6. Materials Development—textbooks, professional development materials,
materials for courses and tutoring programs
7. Co-curricular support
8. X Strand—none of the above but important to the work of graduate
communication support
All works-in-progress proposals will be accepted, and presenters will be
listed in the program.
*Lightning Rounds*
* Proposals due Friday, April 21, 2020 by 11:59 PM EST *Propose a
lightning round talk to bring innovation, creativity, and maybe some humor
to the Institute. A lightning round is a time-limited and slide-limited
presentation format. Each presenter gives a 5-minute presentation
accompanied by 15 slides that advance automatically every 20 seconds.
Lightning rounds work well when you want to share a great idea, tell a
story, or take a strong position on an issue. To propose a lightning round,
submit a title and short abstract (limit: 250 words).
*Submitting Multiple Proposals *
Participants may submit once as a presenter or co-presenter in a workshop
or works-in-progress session. That is, participants may submit as a
presenter or co-presenter for one workshop or one works-in-progress
session. In addition, participants can submit a separate proposal for a
special interest networking session or for a lightning round.
*Listen and Learn (Registration Only)*
Registration open through Wednesday, June 3 by 11:59 PM EST
Attend the institute, listen to the speakers, participate in workshops,
attend works-in-progress strands, participate in the discussions, and take
home ideas for your classes, programs, and research.
You may register for the CGC Summer Institute at
https://www.gradconsortium.org/events/#!event/2020/6/18/cgc-summer-institute-2020.
You can learn more about the CGC through our website: www.gradconsortium.org
<http://www.gradconsortium.org/>
Questions? Contact CGC co-chairs Linda Macri at [log in to unmask] or Susan
Lawrence @[log in to unmask]
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Nigel A. Caplan, PhD
Associate Professor (he/him)
English Language Institute, 108 E Main Street
University of Delaware
Phone: (302) 831-7419
www.nigelcaplan.com | http://sites.udel.edu/aceteach
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