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New initiative supports graduate students raising families

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Many K-State graduate students juggle studies with being a parent. For them, affordable child care is one more hurdle on the way to getting their degree.

Thanks to alumni, faculty and staff who came together to support K-State grad students on Giving Tuesday, a new scholarship developed by the Graduate School is knocking down this hurdle. The inaugural campaign raised $5,000, which was matched with a contribution from the K-State Graduate Student Council. In total, $10,000 was awarded to 13 recipients who demonstrated need for this assistance.

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You can make a difference! Support graduate student progress towards graduation

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In the Graduate School, we hear on a regularly from students that they, just like many working adults, encounter challenges in making ends meet, putting healthy food on the table or paying health-related expenses. These challenges impact student physical and mental well-being, in turn negatively impacting academic success.

On August 9th, we launched a fundraising campaign to address unmet needs of graduate students and support their journey towards graduation. We hope you will join us in this effort. Visit our giving page to learn more about the ways you can contribute and make a gift to support K-State graduate students. As an alum, you are an important member of the K-State community. Your commitment and support are essential to enhancing the scholarly experiences for our graduate students.

Dean’s message: Celebrating resilience and looking to the future

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Dear graduate alumni,

It is a great honor to share with you a newsletter that exemplifies the great strength, resilience, and stamina to overcome a global challenge that changed, practically overnight, all facets of graduate education: how we teach, learn, do research, interact with each other.

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Graduate alumni have diverse skills, knowledge, and experiences that can help advance the K-State Graduate School’s mission to enhance the graduate student experience. We invite you to complete a brief survey to share how you would like to be engaged in supporting graduate student success.

Graduates recognized at first commencement since December 2019

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After a full year of postponing commencement ceremonies to protect the health and safety of our K-State community, the Graduate School was pleased to celebrate all 2020 and spring 2021 master’s and doctoral graduates on May 14. The ceremony was special not only because some graduates had waited a year for this occasion, but they also had the unique opportunity to experience commencement on the football field at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

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Graduate Student Council leadership and engagement continue to thrive

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Throughout the past year, despite the ever-changing environment and concerns regarding the pandemic, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) continued to fulfill its mission to support and enhance the graduate student experience. The Graduate Student Council, with a leadership team of more than 30 graduate students representing 15 programs, adapted largely virtual operations and navigated the new safety guidelines to provide workshops, research forums, and networking opportunities for the graduate student body.

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Dean’s Message: Farewell and Reflections

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Dean, Carol Shanklin

As I prepare for retirement on January 9th, I want to highlight a few accomplishments while serving as Dean of the Graduate School since 2007.  The focus of my work has been on enhancing the graduate student experience and advocating for our graduate students, one of the themes of 2025 Strategic Plan. I have had the opportunity to work with an excellent team and many dynamic Graduate Student Council leaders and to partner with student services offices to promote more and new opportunities for our graduate students.

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Why I give: An alumna’s contribution to enhance science communication

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Through discussion with Dean Carol Shanklin, six years ago I invested in the Graduate School’s Excellence Fund for Enhancing Science Communication.  “Our students must demonstrate the ability to communicate the value of their research and other scholarly work to the public and to their future employers,” she wrote to me. That made a lot of sense to me, so I decided to support the program.

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English and Biology GTAs recognized for excellent teaching

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Ngainunmawi “Mawi” Sonna, master’s student in English, and Seton Bachle, doctoral candidate in biology, were selected as the 2020 recipients of the GSC Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence. Mawi and Seton will serve as K-State’s nominees for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Excellence in Teaching Award.

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