CSSHE 2015 Graduate Student Preconference

Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Graduate Student Preconference at Congress 2015

Planning Your Post-graduation Transitions:
Academic and Alt-Academic Options

When: Saturday May 30th, 2015 from 10am-4pm
Location: University of Ottawa
Cost: $10
Registration: http://csshe2015preconference.eventbrite.ca

Studying higher education?

Join other graduate students from across the country for an exciting day networking and learning about options and career strategies relevant for every graduate student studying higher education. The day will be focused on planning career development strategies for both academic and practitioner careers in higher education, including managing your online professional identity. The program features three speakers:

  *  Dr. Bryan Gopaul (Assistant Professor at the Warner School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester. Gopaul’s research

focuses on the graduate student experience and the changing nature of faculty life and work)
  *  Dr. Jennifer Polk (Academic, career, life coach who works with graduate students who are working on dissertations and PhDs who are figuring out life outside of the tenure track. Jenn also blogs

for University Affairs and is known for her work at FromPhDtoLife.com

)
  *  Melonie Fullick (PhD Candidate at York who has written for Inside Higher Ed, the Globe and Mail, the Guardian UK, Academic Matters, and has a blog called Speculative Diction

through University Affairs)

For more information about each of the speakers and the schedule of events for the day, please see the attached program. If you have any questions you can contact Kathleen Moore at kathleen.moore@mail.utoronto.ca

Hope to see you in Ottawa!
Kathleen Moore and Deanna Rexe
CSSHE 2015 Graduate Student Pre-Conference Co-Chairs