Sustainable Practices in Under-resourced Graduate Programs

with a focus on alum community building

Activity run by Peter Taylor for GPD meeting, 7 May 2014

1. Acknowledge, but not dwell on
State something that makes it hard to build on what you get going in your graduate program or keep it running, e.g., University admin not providing ready access to contact info on alums: compilation of responses

2. Ideas from well-resourced programs that take more $$, staff, or faculty time than Under-resourced Graduate Programs have.

3. Sharing of lessons from experience and experiments about turning scarcity into a virtue, about Sustainable Practices in Under-resourced Graduate Programs—with a focus on alum community building: compilation of responses

From Critical & Creative Thinking Graduate Program

• Google docs database, Columns
• Wiki with monthly news & emailed notifications
• Monthly evening events
• Skype or Google hangout to bring in participants from a distance
• Documentation of events, e.g, Our Lives and Other Worlds
• Writing Support Group

to be developed -- analysis/synthesis of responses from the forms posted above as pdfs