WebinAAR | Preparing Graduate Students for a Variety of Futures

Bearing in mind the factors that have led to the long term decline of the academic job market — let alone new challenges now facing parts of U.S. higher education — today’s graduate programs today have little choice but to consider how to pivot and equip their students to succeed by finding novel places where their advanced research skills have relevance and applicability.

Join us for this month’s webinAAR with Emily Crews, Director of the Martin Marty Center at The University of Chicago, and Courtney Wiersema, Director the University of Chicago’s ChicagoGRAD professionalization/careers program for graduate students. They will discuss centralized initiatives on their campus that might also be adopted by individual programs; for, if such a pivot is to succeed, M.A. and Ph.D. degree requirements, curricula, and supervision must also be part of it. This webinAAR will be a crash course in what departments should be doing to better prepare their grad students for a variety of futures.

This webinAAR is part of a series of Academic Relations Committee (ARC) remote sessions that are offered each month; all these meetings tackle topics of direct relevance to the success of a department and each session is recorded and posted on the committee’s page at the AAR site.