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Season 1 Podcasts

These podcasts dropped March - July 2024

Podcasts 1-5

Episode 0: Welcome to Grad-post!

Episode 1: We Welcome Your Response by April 15

Episode 1: We Welcome Your Response by April 15

  1. https://linguistics.illinois.edu/news/2023-06-19/memoriam-hassana-alidou-renowned-phd-alumna-leaves-lasting-impact 
  2.  https://www.aaionline.org/the-passing-of-hassana-alidou/?doing_wp_cron=1705926280.5739200115203857421875 
  3. https://africanstudies.org/in-memory/hassana-alidou-1963-2023/
  4. https://threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/  

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Episode 1: We Welcome Your Response by April 15

Episode 1: We Welcome Your Response by April 15

Episode 1: We Welcome Your Response by April 15

What is the April 15th Resolution?

  1. https://cgsnet.org/resources/for-current-prospective-graduate-students/april-15-resolution
  2. https://cgsnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CGS_April15_Resolution_Jan312024.pdf
  3. https://cgsnet.org/april-15-resolution-faq  

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Episode 2: Selecting a Mentor

Episode 1: We Welcome Your Response by April 15

Episode 3: Spoiler Alert! Take the GRE

Consider these questions when interviewing a potential research advisor.  

  1. Mentoring Relationships in brochure format suitable for printing.
  2. Feldon, David F., et al. "Faculty mentors’, graduate students’, and performance-based assessments of students’ research skill development." Amer Ed Res J, 52.2 (2015): 334-370, DOI: 10.3102/0002831214549449

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Episode 3: Spoiler Alert! Take the GRE

Episode 5: Interview with NAGPS President Sean Schrader

Episode 3: Spoiler Alert! Take the GRE

In this episode, we discuss the role of the Graduate Records Examination (GRE) in graduate admissions and whether or not it is advisable to take it.

  1. https://www.science.org/content/article/gre-exit-gains-momentum-ph-d-programs-drop-exam-requirement-amid-pandemic 
  2. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2024/01/17/reigniting-standardized-testing-debate 
  3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/02/05/dartmouth-reinstates-sat-admissions-requirement/  
  4. GRE Guide to the Use of Scores, 2023-24, Educational Testing Service, Washington, DC., https://www.ets.org/pdfs/gre/gre-guide-to-the-use-of-scores.pdf 
  5. https://www.reddit.com/r/gradadmissions/comments/14h2448/should_i_take_the_gre/ 
  6. Bleske-Rechek, A., and K. Browne, “Trends in GRE scores and graduate enrollments by gender and ethnicity,” Intelligence, 46, 25-34, (2014) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2014.05.005
  7. https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/provost/scotus-admission-decision-brown-faqs 
  8. Moneta-Koehler, Liane, et al. "The limitations of the GRE in predicting success in biomedical graduate school." PloS One 12.1 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166742 

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Episode 4: 12 Reasons Not to Not Get a PhD

Episode 5: Interview with NAGPS President Sean Schrader

Episode 5: Interview with NAGPS President Sean Schrader

The Graddean lampoons a Moneywatch article from 2012 to dispel some common myths about getting the PhD.  

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/12-reasons-not-to-get-a-phd/ 

2. Survey of Earned Doctorates, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2022, https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/earned-doctorates/2022 

3. Learning and Earning by Degrees, Georgetown University, 2024 https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CEW-attainment-gains-full_report.pdf 

4. https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2024/03/07/graduate-student-survey-indicates-satisfaction-with-graduate-experience/ 

5. https://gradschool.cornell.edu/about/program-metrics-assessments-and-outcomes/doctoral-experience-survey/

6. Doctoral Initiative on Minority Attrition and Completion, Council of Graduate Schools, 2015 https://cgsnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Doctoral_Initiative_on_Minority_Attrition_and_Completion-2015.pdf 

7. The Role of Food Stamps in the Recession https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/communities-and-banking/2012/fall/the-role-of-food-stamps-in-the-recession.aspx 

8. https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2017/educational-attainment-of-the-labor-force/pdf/educational-attainment-of-the-labor-force.pdf 

9. Is Grad School Worth It? A Comprehensive Return on Investment Analysis https://freopp.org/is-graduate-school-worth-it-a-comprehensive-return-on-investment-analysis-a84644f29f9

10. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=7413f38947250547d45a537c285057c5830567e4 

11. https://www.aaup.org/file/2022_AAUP_Survey_of_Tenure_Practices.pdf 

12. Early Career Doctorates Survey (ECDS), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2017 https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/early-career-doctorates/2017

13. https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/workforce/job-satisfaction-humanities-phd-recipients 

14. Are 81% of drivers actually happy with Uber? USAToday, 2015, https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/roadwarriorvoices/2015/12/08/are-81-of-drivers-actually-happy-with-uber-or-did-uber-release-selective-data/83074696/

15. The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States, 2011 https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509441.pdf

16. Anthony T. Grafton and Jim Grossman, “No More Plan B”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 9, 2011, https://www.chronicle.com/article/no-more-plan-b/?sra=true 

17. Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, 2012, https://acd.od.nih.gov/documents/reports/Biomedical_research_wgreport.pdf

https://www.chronicle.com/article/most-presidents-prefer-no-tenure-for-majority-of-faculty/?sra=true 

https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/cew-college_payoff_2021-fr.pdf 

National Survey of College Graduates, 2021 https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/national-survey-college-graduates/2021 

National Center for Education Statistics https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40 

Survey of Earned Doctorates, December 2023 https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24300/report/postgraduation-trends 

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Episode 5: Interview with NAGPS President Sean Schrader

Episode 5: Interview with NAGPS President Sean Schrader

Episode 5: Interview with NAGPS President Sean Schrader

The Graddean interviews the President of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) to learn more about Celebrating Graduate Students month.

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Podcasts 6-14

Episode 6: Origin Story

Episode 8: Graduate Student Mental Health Awareness Month

Episode 7: How To Bake the Perfect Advanced Degree

Exactly what it says.

  

The Way We Was, The Simpsons, 1991, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Was 

Risky Business excerpt, https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tom+cruise+risky+business+university+of+illinois#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:70e86e1e,vid:iFabpS3gAr8,st:0 

The 50 Greatest Yogi Berra Quotes, USAToday, https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/03/the-50-greatest-yogi-berra-quotes 

Freewill, Rush, 1980, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewill_(song) 

Homer the Heretic, The Simpsons, 1992, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Heretic 

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Episode 7: How To Bake the Perfect Advanced Degree

Episode 8: Graduate Student Mental Health Awareness Month

Episode 7: How To Bake the Perfect Advanced Degree

What flavors do advanced degrees come in? The Graddean tackles the "professional vs. academic" and "master's vs. PhD" paradigms with an analogy to baking a pie crust.

  

1. US Department of Education Institutional Accrediting Agencies https://www2.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/accreditation_pg3.html#RegionalInstitutional

2. Survey of Earned Doctorates, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2022, https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/earned-doctorates/2022

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Episode 8: Graduate Student Mental Health Awareness Month

Episode 8: Graduate Student Mental Health Awareness Month

Episode 8: Graduate Student Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The Graddean describes some unique aspects of mental wellbeing in graduate students and provides some resources to students, staff, and administrators to improve wellbeing on campus.


988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline https://988lifeline.org/ 


The Mental Health Hotline at 866-903-3787 can answer your questions confidentially and free of charge. https://mentalhealthhotline.org/ 


Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a volunteer Crisis Counselor https://www.crisistextline.org/ 

  

Council of Graduate Schools, & The Jed Foundation. (2021). Supporting graduate student mental health and well-being: Evidence-informed recommendations for the graduate community. https://cgsnet.org/project/graduate-student-mental-health-and-well-being  

The JED Foundation, https://jedfoundation.org/

Distribution of doctorate recipients in the United States in 2021, by age group:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/240152/age-distribution-of-us-doctorate-recipients/ 

University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Leave of Absence policy: https://rackham.umich.edu/navigating-your-degree/leave-of-absence/


1. Arain, M., Haque, M., Johal, L., Mathur,  P., Nel, W., Rais, A., . . . Sharma, S. (2013). Maturation of the adolescent  brain. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 9, 449-461. https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S39776 

2. Evans, T. M., Bira, L., Gastelum, J. B.,  Weiss, L. T., & Vanderford, N. L. (2018). Evidence for a mental health  crisis in graduate education. Nature biotechnology, 36(3), 282-284. 

3. Lee, J. J. (2021). Unique challenges and  opportunities for supporting mental health and promoting the well-being of  international graduate students. Council of Graduate Schools. 

4. Park, K. E., Sibalis, A., & Jamieson,  B. (2021). The mental health and well-being of master’s and doctoral  psychology students at an urban Canadian university. International Journal of  Doctoral Studies, 16, 429. 

5. Villarroel, M. A., &  Terlizzi, E. P. (2020). Symptoms of depression among adults: United States,  2019. 

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Episode 9: IDPS for Graduate Students

Bonus Episode! Episode 10: IDPs and the NSF Mentoring Plan Requirement

Episode 8: Graduate Student Mental Health Awareness Month

 Individual Development Plans are finding increasing use to assist graduate students with their career development goals. Some grad schools or programs even require them! Find out more here. 

  

American Chemical Society ChemIDP https://chemidp.acs.org/ 


AAAS myIDP https://myidp.sciencecareers.org 


Imagine PhD, https://www.imaginephd.com/ 


AACSB https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2017/04/12-professional-development-tips-for-mba-students-from-coursework-to-workplace 

1. Chang, C.-N., & Saw, G. K. (2021). Individual development plan, mentoring support, and career optimism among STEM graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting 

2. Hobin, J. A., Clifford, P. S., Dunn, B. M., Rich, S., & Justement, L. B. (2014). Putting PhDs to Work: Career Planning for Today's Scientist. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 13(1), 49-53. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe-13-04-0085 

3. National Academies of Sciences, E., and Medicine. (2019). The science of effective mentorship in STEMM. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25568/the-science-of-effective-mentorship-in-stemm

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Bonus Episode! Episode 10: IDPs and the NSF Mentoring Plan Requirement

Bonus Episode! Episode 10: IDPs and the NSF Mentoring Plan Requirement

Bonus Episode! Episode 10: IDPs and the NSF Mentoring Plan Requirement

 As of May 20, 2024, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently instituted a required Mentoring Plan and certification of the use of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) for all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars funded on grants. In this episode, we discuss Mentoring Plans, IDPs, and how to use them effectively. 

  

Individual Development Plans, National Institutes of Health, https://www.nigms.nih.gov/training/strategicplanimplementationblueprint/Pages/IndividualDevelopmentPlans.aspx 


Mentoring Plan Requirements, Grant Proposal Guide 24-1, National Science Foundation, https://new.nsf.gov/policies/pappg/24-1/ch-2-proposal-preparation#ch2D2i-i 


America COMPETES Act 2022 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ167/pdf/PLAW-117publ167.pdf 

CHIPS Act of 2022


Imagine PhD, https://www.imaginephd.com/ 

AACSB https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2017/04/12-professional-development-tips-for-mba-students-from-coursework-to-workplace 


National Academies of Sciences, E., and Medicine. (2019). The science of effective mentorship in STEMM. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25568/the-science-of-effective-mentorship-in-stemm

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Episode 11: Is an Advanced Degree Worth It?

Bonus Episode! Episode 10: IDPs and the NSF Mentoring Plan Requirement

Bonus Episode! Episode 10: IDPs and the NSF Mentoring Plan Requirement

There's a lot of talk about the value of a college education, much less an advanced degree. In this episode, the Grad Dean discusses the impact an advanced degree can have on leadership. 


Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, Kathryn Peltier Campbell, Artem Gulish, Ban Cheah, Emma Nyhof, and Lillian Fix. Learning and Earning by Degrees: Gains in College Degree Attainment Have Enriched the Nation and Every State, but Racial and Gender Inequality Persists. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/attainmentgains/ .


https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/edupathwaysofleadersreport_final.pdf 


https://www.study.eu/article/the-academic-backgrounds-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-ceos 

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Bonus Episode! Episode 12: Is an Advanced Degree Worth it for Me?

Bonus Episode! Episode 12: Is an Advanced Degree Worth it for Me?

Bonus Episode! Episode 12: Is an Advanced Degree Worth it for Me?

Episode 11 dealt with the general benefit advanced degrees have on our society in the development of leaders. In this companion episode, the Grad Dean focuses on the personal benefits you can obtain from getting an advanced degree, from professional development to pursuing your passion.


Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, Kathryn Peltier Campbell, Artem Gulish, Ban Cheah, Emma Nyhof, and Lillian Fix. Learning and Earning by Degrees: Gains in College Degree Attainment Have Enriched the Nation and Every State, but Racial and Gender Inequality Persists. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/attainmentgains/ 


Rubio, D. M., Primack, B. A., Switzer, G. E., Bryce, C. L., Seltzer, D. L., & Kapoor, W. N. (2011). A Comprehensive Career-Success Model for Physician-Scientists. Academic Medicine, 86, 1571-1576. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e31823592fd 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs 

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Episode 13: Online or In-Person? The Advanced Degree Decision Box

Bonus Episode! Episode 12: Is an Advanced Degree Worth it for Me?

Bonus Episode! Episode 12: Is an Advanced Degree Worth it for Me?

Here's a simple tool to help you decide if an online or in-person advanced degree is a better option for you. 

  

NCSES Survey of Earned Doctorates 2020 https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf22300/technical-notes 

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24300/data-tables 


The future of the Ed.D. degree – and how it will change over time, https://fortune.com/education/articles/the-future-of-the-ed-d-degree-and-how-it-will-change-over-time/ 


Foster, H.A., S. Chesnut, J. Thomas, and C. Robinson, “ Differentiating the EdD and the PhD in Higher Education: A Survey of Characteristics and Trends,” https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/21551/ 


Professional Science Masters https://professionalsciencemasters.org/ 


Cassuto, L., “The Sad Story of the P.M.A.,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 4, 2015, https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-sad-story-of-the-p-m-a/ 


https://www.statista.com/topics/2175/business-schools-in-the-united-states/#topicOverview 


https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/videos/2017/10/the-future-of-the-mba 


https://fortune.com/education/articles/online-mba-versus-traditional-mba/ 


https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2022/06/big-mba-programs-are-getting-bigger 


https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/chb/postbaccalaureate-enrollment 


https://nursejournal.org/resources/in-person-vs-online-nursing-programs/ 


https://fortune.com/education/articles/why-masters-degree-programs-in-nursing-are-experiencing-fluctuating-enrollment/ 

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Episode 14: The Rise of R2 DII

Bonus Episode! Episode 12: Is an Advanced Degree Worth it for Me?

Episode 14: The Rise of R2 DII

What do Carnegie classifications and college athletics have to do with one another? Have a listen to find out how the race to the top has impacted both in very similar ways over the past 15-20 years. 

  

https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/survey-components/7 


https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/carnegie-classification/classification-methodology/basic-classification/ 


https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24300/data-tables 


https://www.ncaa.org/index.aspx 


https://news.chapman.edu/2019/01/16/chapman-achieves-milestone-with-r-2-carnegie-classification/ 


https://jagwire.augusta.edu/augusta-university-receives-high-research-activity-ranking-from-carnegie-classification/ 


https://www.augusta.edu/mcg/phy/faculty/phys_faculty_sullivan.php 


https://www.augusta.edu/gradschool/ 


https://carterbaldwin.com/news/18462/ 


https://www.pvamu.edu/blog/pvamu-achieves-prestigious-carnegie-r2-classification/ 


https://www.nyit.edu/news/features/meet_jared_littman_vice_provost_for_research 


https://www.mtu.edu/research/vpr-office/internal-awards/faculty-fellow/docs/faculty-fellow-report-oliveira.pdf 


https://www.unf.edu/newsroom/2022/02/R2-status-explained.html 


https://www.forbes.com/sites/donnalopiano/2024/02/18/higher-education-leaders-are-asleep-at-the-wheel/ 


https://btaa.org/about 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Academic_Alliance 


https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Carnegie-Classifications-to-Make-Major-Changes.aspx 

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Season 1 Transcripts

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Grad-post Episode 11 Transcript - Is An Advanced Degree Worth It (pdf)Download
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