8:00a.m - 5:00 p.m.

COUNCIL OF HISTORICALLY BLACK GRADUATE SCHOOLS
(CHBGS) (SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Ballroom Foyer

EXHIBITOR SETUP

3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Ballroom Foyer

REGISTRATION

4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

6:30 - 8:30 pm

JOINT WELCOMING RECEPTION OF CSGS & CHBGS

 7:00 p.m.

 WELCOMING REMARKS
Philip Langlais - President of CSGS, Old Dominion

7:00 a.m - Noon

REGISTRATION OPEN

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

BREAKFAST WITH THE EXHIBITORS

8:30 - 9:15 a.m.

PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME & ADDRESS
Advancing an Action Agenda for Graduate Education: President's Address
Speaker: Philip Langlais-Old Dominion University

9:15 - 10:30 a.m.

PLENARY I: Integrative Training: Crossing Traditional Disciplinary
Boundaries and Creating New Frameworks
Organizers:

Susan Sell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Rebecca Saunders, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

10:30 -11:00 am

REFRESHMENT BREAK WITH THE EXHIBITORS

11:00 - Noon.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
I.A. Funding, Planning Grants, and Recruiting for Integrative Training
Programs (engaging undergraduates) 

I.B. Co-mentoring models for integrative training pathways

I.C. Graduate Student Panel-Integrative Graduate and Post-doctoral
training and career development

Noon - 1:30 p.m.

LUNCH

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

PLENARY II: Pathways to Diversity (Joint Session with CHBGS)Organizers:

Dorris Robinson-Gardner, Jackson State University
Jean Pugliese, Jacksonville State University
Phil Cohen, University of Texas at Arlington

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
II.A. Pathways to Diversity model programs to broaden our national competitiveness: Bridge to the Doctorate, McNair Scholars Program, LSAMP Scholars, Alliance for Graduate Education and the
Professoriate (AGEP), Summer Research Opportunities

II.B. Building alliances to strengthen our national competitiveness: admitting, mentoring, retaining, and graduating historically under-represented, under-served, and those with special disabilities

II.C. Graduate Student Panel -Enhancing institutional and departmental climates for successful matriculation and graduation. Establishing relationships with faculty mentors and advisors for successful matriculation and graduation.

6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

RECEPTION AT THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM
(Sponsored by the Graduate Deans of the Virginia Commonwealth)

**Buses will leave from Hotel Lobby at 6:30 pm**

7:00 - 8:00 a.m.

NEW DEANS' BREAKFAST
IN BASKET: OUT BASKET SESSION
This is an interactive session where the participants "solve" common problems facing graduate administrators, while beginning the networking process so vital to survival as graduate administrators.

The In-Basket: Out Basket Exercise was founded by Brad Bartel (Fort Lewis College) and Bill Carr (Jacksonville State University). CSGS thanks these individuals for permission to use the exercises in this session.

Facilitator:

7:00 a.m.

BREAKFAST FOR GENERAL MEMBERSHIP

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

PLENARY III: Going Global in Graduate Studies
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Denecke, Council of Graduate Schools
Organizers:

Jeannine Blackwell, University of Kentucky
Elaine McNiece, University of Central Arkansas
Karen DePauw, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Patricia Bishop, University of Central Florida

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
III.A. Developing Pipelines of International Students

III.B. Building Collaborations at the Master's Level

III.C. Graduate Student Panel - Making US students Global-Ready

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

REFRESHMENT BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

PLENARY SESSION IV - The Evolving Need for Collaboration Between
Graduate Education and Workforce Development
Organizers:

Karen Weddle-West , University of Memphis
Mitchell Muehsam, Sam Houston State University
Phil Langlais, Old Dominion University

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
IV. A. Developing and implementing professional master's and doctoral programs, including professional science master's (PSM) programs

IV. B. Engaging Faculty and Industry in Dialogue and Partnerships: Corporate and Academic Mindsets

IV.C. Graduate Student Panel - Meeting the Challenges of Accommodating Students in the Workforce: Distance, Online, and Onsite Delivery

TABLE TOP DISCUSSION SESSION II
(Please rotate to a different session)
Organizers:

John Watret, Embry Riddle University
Jeannine Blackwell, University of Kentucky
Karen DePauw, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BREAKFAST
BREAKFAST FOR GENERAL PARTICIPANTS

8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

PLENARY V: Graduate Program Quality-Education vs. Training
Speaker: Diane Auer Jones, President and CEO of The Washington Campus and former Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education at the Department of Education
Organizers:

Robert Roer, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Larry Lyon, Baylor University
John Watret, Embry Riddle University

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

V.1. How does the Personal Potential Index Exam from ETS Allow us to Make Better Admissions Decisions?

V. 2. One of the following: quality assurance and assessment of on-line graduate programs; (2) the balance between breadth and depth in interdisciplinary programs and maintaining the standards of the discipline; or (3) degree creep and preventing dilution of the meaning of the degree

V. 3. Graduate Student Panel – Expectations of their Mentoring Experiences

PRESIDENT ELECT SUMMARY AND CLOSING REMARKS

Patricia Bishop, President Elect
Vice Provost and Dean, University of Central Florida