About the Initiative
The Graduate Program Collective assesses advising best practices and tools to enhance and foster a culture of support within graduate programs. This program serves graduate programs across all disciplines and repurposes the MCT Wakeham Fellowship funds, providing each participating program with $10,000 in internal fellowship funds to support their graduate students. Each participating program selects three new advising or mentoring resources to offer for the academic year across multiple categories (such as, mentorship and navigating graduate school). Each new resource will be assessed by participating students to provide feedback to the program and Graduate Studies. The program serves to develop and shape advising and mentoring resources and provide increased advising and financial support to graduate students. You can view the resources created on our Program Resources page.
Categories
Programs choose three activities from three different categories. In order to increase advising and mentoring resources within programs, each activity selected had to represent a resource new to the program never offered in previous years. The category options were:
- Mentorship
- Program Advising and Climate
- Navigating Graduate School
2023-2024 Cohort
- Anthropology
- Applied Mathematics
- Biological Systems Engineering
- Food Science
- Neuroscience
- Performance Studies
2022-2023 Cohort
- Biophysics
- Chemical Engineering
- Epidemiology
- Plant Pathology
- Sociology
- Spanish
2021-2022 Cohort
- Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Cultural Studies
- Design
- Ecology
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Soils and Biogeochemistry
2020-2021 Cohort
- Chemistry
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Education
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- History
- Horticulture and Agronomy
- Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology
- Plant Biology
- Physics