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About Us

The Graduate Support Programs offers academically focused seminars and workshops that advise, empower and help retain all graduate students, particularly graduate students of color and women in the science and technical fields. The fundamental goals of the Graduate Support Programs have been constant for more than 15 years: first, to support, advise and guide individual graduate students as they work to complete their degrees; second, to contribute to the greatest degree possible to the diversification of the academy. This has best been accomplished by guiding graduate students through crisis points in their graduate careers, teaching them best strategies for success now and when they leave, and providing opportunities for interdisciplinary connections, peer and faculty mentoring, and community.

Programs include: The Professional Development Seminar Series, the Doctoral Career Paths Seminars, Graduate Women's Gatherings, Inter-University Student of Color Dinner/Speaker Series, Summer Professional Development Workshops for Doctoral Students, GradUate Small project Help (GuSH), FORD Motor Company Graduate Research Grant, G.S.A. Graduate Student Conference Funding, and the Graduate Student Peer Mentor Program.

Funding for graduate student programs is provided by the Provost, the Vice Provost for Education, the Graduate Student Assembly, and CMU alumni and staff members.

The increasing number of sponsors of the GradUate Small project Help (GuSH) Funding Program are integral to providing to graduate students not only intellectual and interpersonal skills to navigate through their degree programs, but also resources to ensure that they evolve into the intellectual leaders they will (and do) become. To learn more about GuSH donors, graduate student recipients, and the amazing projects that are enabled through their collaboration, click here.

For additional program information, please contact.

Nancy Klancher, Director WH 527G; x8-7970 klancher@andrew.cmu.edu www.cmu.edu/adm/gpo