Events
Free Speech Education Campaign Kick-Off
March 4, 6:30 to 8 p.m. The Inclusive Campus Initiative is excited to announce the Kick-Off of our Free Speech Education year-long campaign and beyond. This event will be part of our 4th Food For Thought: Cultural Community Rebuilding Dinner and will feature Dr. Kristine Bowman, associate dean of academic & student affairs for the College of Education. Erickson Hall KIVA. Learn more via PDF
The Ethics of Accommodation Series 2
Begins March 6, 4:30 p.m. This series creates a space for dialogue and discussion to help increase access and create inclusive spaces at MSU. Series 2 is geared toward students and will share ways to navigate disability services and request accommodations. During the two sessions students will learn from a panel and continue the conversation about how to survive and thrive as a MSU student with a disability. Learn more via PDF and register via Office Forms
Series: How to Decide Between an Academic and Non-Academic Career
Attention: Doctoral
Begins March 6. This virtual webinar series is designed to help PhDs explore and evaluate their career options. It walks participants through a series of exercises to help them evaluate career options and identify next steps in building their career either as faculty or beyond the professoriate. VIRTUAL EVENTS: Learn more and register via Beyond the Professoriate
COGS Coffee & Connection
March 6, 9 to 10 a.m. The Council of Graduate Students’ next Coffee and Connection hour will be hosted atFoster Coffee Co. in downtown East Lansing. Enjoy your beverage & treats on COGS! Learn more via MSU COGS
Writing Your Teaching Philosophy Statement
Attention: Graduate Teaching Assistants
March 6, 10 to 11:30 a.m. This workshop will provide you with strategies for crafting your teaching philosophy statement and/or teaching professional development and mentoring experiencing with the help of a rubric. VIRTUAL EVENT: Learn more via the Graduate School
Creativity & Learning Experience Design Workshop
March 6, 7:30 p.m. Join the team behind the M.A. in Learning Experience Design to renew your creative mindset, deepen your creative practices, and apply creative twists to support your work and engage your learners. You will:
- learn strategies to expand your own creative practice
- co-design solutions for creativity challenges in organizations
- evaluate creativity models and frameworks
- generate a spark for creativity in your LXD practice
Spark your creativity to design better experiences for your learners! VIRTUAL EVENT: Register to attend via Zoom
Essential Skills for Navigating Life Effectively Webinar Series
Begins March 8, 3 to 4:30 p.m. This eight-week webinar series from University Health and Wellbeing’s Spartan Resilience will provide the opportunity to build emotional resilience and psychological flexibility to aid in the navigation of any work or life challenges now or in the future. Learn to avoid burnout and manage low moods and excessive stress. VIRTUAL EVENTS: Learn more via MSU Health4U
Community Engaged Scholarship Write-In
March 8, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Are you working on an outreach or engagement journal article, grant proposal, book chapter, thesis, dissertation, curriculum, or portfolio? Write-ins start with goal-setting for the day and wrap up with a progress report, next steps, and a meal ticket for lunch at Brody cafeteria. Coffee, tea, and water are available throughout the Write-Ins. Learn more via University Outreach & Engagement
Community & Connection for International Graduate Students
March 8, 12 to 1:30 p.m. Facilitated by CED students Lamia Bagasrawala and Seyoung Hong, this event series for international students is designed to provide reflective, interactive, and experiential community spaces for fostering connections, art-based reflections, and sharing stories/narratives. Participants will incorporate arts-based practices using mediums like visual art, stories, poetry, photographs, crafts, and elements of nature to engage with the self metaphorically, identify our strengths and assets, reflect on our well-being, and critically engage with ideas of self-care. Prior knowledge/ experience with any arts or art modalities is not required. Register via Google Forms by March 2 (registrations will close at 12 participants). Learn more via PDF
Retro Silent Spring Disco at MSU Museum
March 8, 7 to 9 p.m. Spend a night wearing your most retro fashion finds while you listen to music on headphones for a silent disco. Enjoy free food and drink, a photo booth, and fun beaded accessory-making stations. Learn more via MSU Museum
Opportunities
MSU Community Engagement Scholars Program
The MSU Community Engagement Scholars Program is currently seeking applicants for the 2024-25 cohort, as well as a Graduate Student Coordinator to serve from May 2024 to May 2025. If you are a graduate student interested in community engagement, you can find more details about the program and how to apply via the Center for Community Engaged Learning
NIH Grantsmanship and Mentoring Program
Are you an early-career researcher looking to submit a strong NIH R01 proposal in October? This program will focus on writing key sections of NIH research grants, including the specific aims page, the significance and innovation sections, and elements of the approach section. Apply by: March 15. Learn more via the Graduate School
2024 Outstanding Mentoring Awards
Nominations for this year’s Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Awards are now open. These awards recognize graduate programs, faculty, and doctoral students who exemplify mentoring best practices. Applications due: April 15 and May 15. Learn more via the Graduate School
Spencer Fellow for Youth Participatory Action Research
Attention: Doctoral
Ed Trust seeks a Spencer Fellow for Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) on its P12 team. The ideal Fellow is an early-career scholar with experience designing and conducting participatory action research or other community-oriented research strategies, who can help build Ed Trust’s capacity to engage and train young people to conduct systemic research to improve the schools intended to serve them. The person in this role will work with colleagues within and across teams – as well as with external partners – to help design and carry out the P-12 youth participatory action research (YPAR) agenda related to Ed Trust’s policy priorities. Learn more and apply via The Education Trust
Call for Teaching Apprentices: EAD 315
Are you a graduate student who wants to gain experience with teaching? Consider teaching a course on Student Leadership for undergraduate students at MSU. We are accepting applications for both Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters! You can apply to teach Fall 2024, Spring 2025, or both semesters. This is a teaching apprenticeship that offers cohort-style and mentored in-person and/or online teaching experience to first-time and experienced instructors. Apply by: March 8. Learn more via Linktree and PDF
MI-LEND Disability Leadership Training
Michigan Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (MI-LEND) is an interdisciplinary leadership program that provides experiential training for Michigan’s emerging leaders. The goal is to improve the health of infants, children and adolescents with, or at risk for, neurodevelopmental disabilities (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorders) and other related healthcare needs. Apply by: May 1. Learn more via MI-LEND PDF
How to Complete Your Grad Student or Nonresident/International Student Tax Return (and Understand It, Too!)
This asynchronous Personal Finance for Ph.D. workshop is provided to you for free by the Graduate School Office of Well-Being, Council of Graduate Students, and the Graduate School at Michigan State University. This workshop teaches you the federal higher education tax benefits available to you, including how to tabulate, calculate and report your funding and education expenses. VIRTUAL: Learn more via the Graduate School