Goal: Graduate and Professional Programs
Objective: Recruit outstanding and diverse graduate students
- Provide nationally competitive pay rates and teaching loads
- Expand college outreach through competitive summer research opportunities for prospective graduate students
- Expand the number of endowed graduate fellowships to support recruitment
- Enhance minority-serving-institution partnerships and other pipeline programs to foster a diverse applicant pool
Objective: Enhance graduate student professional development and funding opportunities
- Expand funding opportunities for travel and seed grants for research development
- Provide opportunities for professional development through department, college, and university service
- Build on research relationships with industry to secure internships and fellowships
- Pursue major training grants (such as IGERT, the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program of the National Science Foundation)
- Create a college-wide calendar of major awards for graduate students to facilitate departmental nominations
Objective: Foster opportunities for interdisciplinary experiences for graduate students
- Involve graduate students in existing and emerging interdisciplinary centers and institutes
- Partner with the Graduate School in supporting participation in interdisciplinary conferences
- Create proseminar courses to promote interaction across related disciplines
Objective: Develop graduate and professional degree and certificate programs
- Identify mechanisms to reward faculty for developing professional programs
- Identify areas of potential fit between statewide professional training needs and Franklin College disciplines
- Develop policies for start-up funding and allocation of proceeds of professional programs