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Welcome to Graduate Studies at McGill

Welcome to Graduate Studies at McGill. August 2009. Graduate Education. Special and important time in your life You have an important role at McGill – an essential element of a research intensive university

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Welcome to Graduate Studies at McGill

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  1. Welcome to Graduate Studies at McGill August 2009

  2. Graduate Education • Special and important time in your life • You have an important role at McGill – an essential element of a research intensive university • McGill and Montreal offer you a variety of fantastic opportunities for education and personal development - Take advantage of them! • 1990

  3. Some numbers: • Total graduate students Fall 2008: 7,635 • (including graduate degree, certificate & diploma students) • Quebec: 4,686 • Other Canada: 1,449 • International: 1,500 • Master’s: 3,473 • Doctoral: 2,827 • Graduate Certificate & Diploma: 1,335 • Total graduate students this September: 7,600 (approx.)

  4. Your Graduate Program Office: your first stop • The daily administration of graduate studies and advice • Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS) • Assists your Graduate Program and you with administrative aspects of your studies • Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies - Dean’s Office • Dean (Associate Provost Graduate Education) and • Associate Deans • Academic and administrative responsibility for graduate • (and Postdoc) programs • Assist graduate programs and students in academic matters • Assist students Administration of Graduate Studies at McGill

  5. Where is the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies? Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is located on the 3rd (Dean’s office) and 4th (administrative office) floors of the James Administration Building.

  6. Hierarchy of Help • Supervisor • (Advisory Committee) • Graduate Program Director • (Graduate Program Coordinator) • Department Chair • Associate Deans, GPS • Dean GPS Other services • Ombudsperson for Students • Services for Students • Dean of Students Stay informed and deal with problems early... Don’t let them fester!

  7. Responsibilities • McGill • Provide the framework for you to get through your program in a timely fashion • Provide mechanisms to support you • Provide you with opportunities to develop your professional skills (SKILLSETS) • Yours • Your own academic integrity • Be informed • Use your McGill email • Talk to your supervisor about expectations and parameters of: • Your work environment • Meeting frequency • Intellectual property • Travelling to conferences • Authorship

  8. What is Academic Integrity? Integrity website? http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity Test yourknowledgeat http://www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/test/ Fair Play? http://www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/staff/ Library resources? http://www.mcgill.ca/library Faculty or department guidelines? http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/french/protocole_travaux.html

  9. Program Milestones and Progress Tracking • The key to timely and successful completion • [program insert milestones for your programs e.g…..] • Courses • Thesis proposal • Advisory/Committee meetings (progress tracking reports) • Comprehensives • Thesis submission

  10. Improving the Graduate Experience at McGill • Pan-university emphasis on graduate student recruitment and retention • communications • funding • supervision • program development and interdisciplinarity • professional skills • overall graduate student experience

  11. Tried and True Advice:Avoid Isolation • Become involved • Seek help • Widen your horizons • Explore the city • Meet people

  12. How to Get Information • TO GET STARTED: your USB Key • For policies and procedures • For contact information • For all graduate services at McGill • Life in Montreal • TO STAY INFORMED – learn to navigate: • GPS website: • GPSPolicies: http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/policies/ • McGill Policies-Secretariat: http://www.mcgill.ca/secretariat/policies/ • Your graduate program, departmental and faculty web sites http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/

  13. Take advantage of McGill Branch out from the Lab and the Library • Interdisciplinary Opportunities • Events • Conferences/Conventions • Special Talks • Gairdner lectures • Beatty lectures • Tomlinson talks • Departmental seminars • Concerts

  14. Orientation Activities • Web site of activities and information (http://www.mcgill.ca/firstyear/orientation1/graduate/) • Graduate Orientation Open House & Welcome for New Graduate Students Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. Thomson House, 3650 McTavish Street

  15. Welcome messages: Key information Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies' Orientation Presentation [.wmv] Executive Director of Student Services Graduate Orientation Presentation [.wmv] Dean of Students' Graduate Orientation Presentation [.wmv] Welcome Message from the President of PGSS [.wmv]

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