Tag: Dr. Suzanne Ortega

Health

Report Outlines How Institutions Can Support the Mental Health of Graduate Students

Today’s graduate students are facing multiple stressors that require thoughtful and comprehensive attention. Those are the findings from a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and The Jed Foundation (JED), which provides a framework for individual and collective action to support the mental health and well-being of master’s and doctoral students.

May 3, 2021

International

Institutions Rethink International Recruitment as COVID-19, Political Climate Complicate Process

Due to the limits on in-person interactions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, graduate schools have transformed their recruitment strategies, especially for international students.

October 21, 2020

Latest News

Leading Higher Ed Stakeholders Offer Advice to Newly-Minted Ph.Ds. Looking for Work

Higher education has been hit with furloughs and layoffs stemming from the economic instability brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The national unemployment rate in April reached a high of 14.7% but dropped to 13.3% in May, the Bureau for Labor Statistics (BLS) reported. However, when broken down by education, individuals with a college degree were less likely to be unemployed.

July 22, 2020

Health

New Initiative Tackles Graduate Student Mental Health

Graduate students are six times as likely to experience anxiety and depression as people in other fields, a study in Nature Biotechnology found last year. Such statistics inspired the Council of Graduate Schools and the Jed Foundation to partner on a new initiative called “Supporting Mental Health and Wellness of Graduate Students.”

August 20, 2019

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Institute Marks 25 Years of Training Minorities as Faculty, Mentors

Inside and outside a ballroom buzzing with activity at the Marriott Crystal Gateway hotel, it could have been easy to get confused or overwhelmed as 1,000 other future, current and past minority Ph.D. students and faculty sought face time with recruiters from more than 80 colleges and universities across the nation.

October 27, 2018

Students

Study Reveals Notable Graduate School Enrollment Trends

The number of ethnic minority, first-time graduate students inched up from 2016 to 2017 while women earned the majority of graduate degrees for the eighth year in a row, according to the latest annual study by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) Board.

October 2, 2018