Thanks to everyone who joined CGS in Cambridge, Massachusetts and helped make our New Deans Institute and Summer Workshop our most successful ever! There were over 220 participants who joined us for Plenary Sessions, Dean Dialogues, Hot Topics, networking receptions, and many other successful events.

2006 Summer Workshop Program

Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2006 NDI and Summer Workshop are below.

New Deans Institute Presentations

Session IIIA: Political Engagement 
James Llorens (15 KB)
Michael Smyer (27 KB)

Session IIIB: Graduate Admissions Overview for Associate/Assistant Deans
Robert Sowell (62 KB)
Kristin Williams (117 KB)

Session V: Program Quality Assessment
Duane Larick (496 KB)

Summer Workshop Presentations

Plenary I: Graduate Education Research: Informing Practices
Mary Ann Mason (30 KB)

Breakfast with Peterson's Educational Services Group
Dan Karleen (2.76 MB)

Dean Dialogue 4: Challenges of Distance Graduate Education: Finding a Model that Works
Sue McCullough (87 KB)

Breakfast with Educational Testing Service
David Payne (121 KB)

Plenary III: Entrepreneurship and the Contemporary American University
Jay Littlepage (1.71 MB)
Charles Rozek (660 KB)

Technical Workshop: Ph.D. Completion
Overview of Request for Proposals (46 KB)
Scott Bass (1.58 MB)
Daniel Denecke (162 KB)
Helen Frasier (259 KB)
J. Ellen Gainor (48 KB)
Cecilia Lucero (127 KB)

Technical Workshop: Professional Science Master's
Eleanor Babco (67 KB)
Karen Klomparens (44 KB)
Carol Lynch (69 KB)

Technical Workshop: Training Graduate Students in the Responsible Conduct of Research: An Expanded Program
Judith Devine (218 KB)
Paul Tate (153 KB)

Presentations are offered as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Where applicable, file format and size are indicated after the name of each presenter.