Tuesday, March 2, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Grad students seeking path to success
By Chris Hopkins
Kansan staff writer
A free workshop and speech designed to help graduate students understand how to succeed in today's job market will take place this afternoon and evening.
The workshop, sponsored by the Graduate and Professional Association, starts at 11:30 a.m. at Parlors A, B and C in the Kansas Union. Maresi Nerad, director of graduate research at the University of California-Berkley will speak at 7 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
Partha Mazumdar, Pittsburgh. Pa., graduate student and GPA member, said that he was looking forward to the workshop.
"It should be exciting just on a personal level just because
we've worked so hard on it," he said.
After an opening brown bag luncheon, smaller workshops will cover balancing work and family, mentorship, administration and grants, and academic and non-academic career placement.
Daphne Johnston, assistant dean of the Graduate School, said that GPA built the program initially around Nerad, who is writing a book about professional degree-holders and the paths they take in the job market.
Nerad was invited by the group because her speech, "Ph.D.'s Ten Years Later," will focus on problems GPA had been discussing.
"GPA got involved this year because they were talking about
the same concerns, like placement." Johnston said.
Johnston said the lack of teaching positions for qualified doctoral students would be addressed in Nerad's speech.
"I think it's always been a concern, but as the years have gone by, more people have been pursuing higher degrees, but there isn't a higher demand at the universities," she said.
Nerad's book and speech are based on a 25-page questionnaire that she handed out to a number of professionals 10 years after they received their doctorates.
Her findings showed that people with doctoral degrees could be successful even if they didn't get a job in the field they expected to.
Johnston said that she hoped
the speech would help students feel more secure and inspire students to succeed rather than informing students that there was a problem.
Mazumdar said that the workshop mostly would help new graduate students or undergraduates considering graduate school.
"The more advanced graduate students might already know this stuff, just picking it up along the way," he said.
Johnston said that a program with Nerad would also be held for graduate program administrators and departmental chairs, as well as faculty who mentor graduate students.
"I think she'll talk about ways those programs can assess their success," she said.
- Edited by Kelli Raybern
GPA WORKSHOP
All events are in the Kansas Union.
Arlene Garee in the Kansas City:
Brown Bag Luncheon: Considering Your Career: Graduate Students & Work. 11:30 a.m. to
1:20 p.m. Parlors A, B, C.
Balancing Work and Family.
2 to 3 p.m. Curry Room.
Mentorship, 2:30 p.m. and 3:30
p.m. Great Room
Administration and Grants. 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Kansas Room.
Academic and Non-Academic Career Placement. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Oread Room.
Reception for main speaker, Maresi Nerad. 4 to 5 p.m., English Room.
Nerad presents, "Ph.D.'s Ten Years Later." 7 p.m., Summerfield Room, Adams Alumni Center.
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