The CGS-ETS Pathways Through Graduate School and Into Careers report has garnered press attention. An article in Inside Higher Ed quotes commission chair Patrick Osmer, Vice Provost, Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School at The Ohio State University as well as commission member Ron Townsend, Executive Vice President for Global Laboratory Operations at Battelle Memorial Institute. The Chronicle of Higher Education also covered the report and includes quotes from Dr. Osmer as well as commission member James Wimbush, Dean, University Graduate School at Indiana University. Diverse Issues in Higher Education featured an article about the April 19th Legislative Forum on Pathways Through Graduate School and Into Careers which quotes several speakers, including Freeman Hrabowski, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Dwight Hutchins, Global Managing Director of Accenture, Kurt Landgraf, CEO of ETS, and Dr. Osmer. Additionally, EdWeek’s College Bound blog included a post about the report.
Additional coverage the week of April 23 included an article in ScienceInsider which quoted Debra Stewart, CGS President, and Patrick Osmer, Pathways Commission Chair and Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School at The Ohio State University. Additional coverage appeared in Science Careers, University World News, and U.S. News & World Report’s University Directory.
More recently, an opinion piece by CGS President, Debra Stewart, and ETS President & CEO, Kurt Landgraf was published by the Huffington Post on Thursday. Additionally, the report was featured in a Nature News Brief, and online articles at Onlinemba.com and the Society for Human Resources Management. Also, the university websites for two commission members, Jeff Gibeling, dean of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Davis, and James Wimbush, dean of the University Graduate School at Indiana University, also posted information about the Pathways initiative.
As the national advocate for graduate education, CGS serves as a resource for policymakers and others on issues concerning graduate education, research, and scholarship. Based in Washington, DC, the organization provides its members with regular updates and analyses of legislative and regulatory proposals and policies that affect graduate education.
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