Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week
Locations vary: in-person and online
Fairfax, Virginia, , United States
Details
As part of this year's Appreciation Week, Graduate Student Life wants to give students the opportunity to recognize their academic and personal achievements by submitting self-recognition videos. We are inviting graduate and professional students to share brief videos to be shared on our social media platform with the hashtag #MasonGradAppreciation! Submit you form via the following link: https://forms.gle/8V3Fsb9wKDLUraGz6 . Please send in your submissions by March 20th, 2023 at 5pm!
We would also like to help empower units in showing their support and recognition of graduate and professional students during this year's Appreciation Week by encouraging faculty, supervisors, departments, and units in posting about their graduate students on their social media. Tag Graduate Student Life, @masongradlife, and/or use the hashtag #MasonGradAppreciation to let us know. We will re-share on our accounts and tag your students.
Agenda
Past Events
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Join the LGBTQ+ Resources Center and Graduate Student Life for Book Club this semester, to enjoy literature contributions by queer authors! If you need assistance acquiring the reading material for this event's book - "Gender Queer: A Memoir" is a 2019 graphic memoir written and illustrated by Maia Kobabe - please contact LGBTQ+ Resource center to get a copy.
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Join University Life and GAPSA at SciTech in Graduate Student Appreciation Week for "Grad-itude"; thanks to, thanks from, thanks with; Gratitude Cards; the UL SciTech "Chillin' Out" Ice Cream Cart; roll the inflatable die for swag and prizes.
The SciTech Campus, Katherine G. Johnson Hall, 3/28/23. 10AM to 12:30PM
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Congratulations – they offered you the job! But what do you do once you receive the offer? How do you negotiate a salary and non-monetary benefits that reflect your value to the organization? Or if you already have a job, how do you ask for a raise? Join Graduate Student Life, University Career Services, and the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA) for this webinar to learn strategies and tips to be an informed and effective advocate for yourself to get the compensation you deserve.
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
To show our appreciation for our graduate assistants – Graduate Professional Assistants, Graduate Research Assistants, and Graduate Teaching Assistants – and graduate lecturers,. Graduate Student Life, the Graduate Division, and University Career Services invite you to attend a breakfast to thank you for your contributions. This event is invite only; invitations have been sent to all applicable students.
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Join Women and Gender Studies and Graduate Student Life for the roundtable discussion: Navigating the Academy as a Women, featuring Dr. Sharnnia Artis, Dr. Cher Chen, and Rachel Debuque, and moderated by Sophia Abbott, PhD candidate in CEHD. Our guest speakers will discuss their experiences as women (among their other identities) in academia, challenges, and successes throughout their career, and invite others to think critically about the experiences of women within higher education. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided!
Hosted By
Co-hosted with: University Career Services, Women and Gender Studies, University Life Mason Square, University Life SciTech, Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA), LGBTQ+ Resources Center
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