Mary Farmer-Kaiser
Dean of the Graduate School
Professor of History
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Martin Hall, Suite 332
104 University Circle
Lafayette, LA 70503
Phone: 337.482.6965
Email: kaiser@louisiana.edu
Email: karen.coats@usm.edu
On behalf of all of our member institutions, welcome to the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools.
CSGS brings together graduate education leaders from colleges and universities across the South. With member institutions of all sizes from Maryland to Texas, our organization offers opportunities to engage with and learn from a wide diversity of people, places, and experiences. Through our website, online forums, resources, partnerships, and annual meetings, we come together to make graduate education better on our own campuses and across our region.
I am honored to serve as the CSGS President in 2022-2023. CSGS has been critical to my engagement with graduate education and to my development as a higher education leader both on and off my own campus. It has given me insight into best practices. It has provided me with opportunities to collaborate and to lead. It has nurtured friendships that now extend far beyond a shared commitment to graduate education.
And I look forward to working with—and learning from—you. We all do! Take a moment to explore the CSGS website. Learn about our organization and our events. Reach out to me or to any of our officers and committee members. Become a member organization. Get involved. Share your ideas. CSGS is an organization where engagement and collaboration thrive.
Take care now to save the date and plan to attend our annual joint meeting with the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools. In 2023, we will gather in Tampa, Florida in March. Planning is already underway for the CHGBS (March 1-2) and CSGS (March 2-4) programs. If you have ideas, now is the time to share them!
Join us as we work to promote healthy, productive, dynamic environments for graduate students, graduate faculty, and graduate education leaders across the South.
When CSGS thrives, we all thrive.