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• GSG President's Report to the Assembly - December 2011

  "Read on for the GSG president Anna Bedford's speech to the Assembly for updates on the GA Advisory Council, potential merger with Baltimore, The Graduate Council and more!" More about: GSG President's Report to the Assembly - December 2011

• 6 Hopeful and 4 Scary Trends for Grad School Grants

  "The recent economic troubles have sparked four trends that are worsening immediate financial hurdles for almost anyone considering graduate school, causing applications to many graduate programs to fall." More about: 6 Hopeful and 4 Scary Trends for Grad School Grants

• The Time-to-Degree Conundrum

  "It's job-market season again, and for those who plan to hire new assistant professors, the usual embarrassment of riches awaits. For more than a generation now, job candidates have been hitting the market with amazing qualifications. Hiring committees routinely choose among applicants who have accomplished much, much more than their interviewers had at comparable stages of our own careers." More about: The Time-to-Degree Conundrum

• The Myth of College as a Fairy Tale

  "The collegiate fairy tale myth supposes that I spoiled myself in early adulthood by avoiding work and going to college. Presumptuous garbage. Like my students today, I had in college an enormous and time-sensitive workload, social pressures, empty pockets, and little sense of physical continuity." More about: The Myth of College as a Fairy Tale

• New Graduate-Student Enrollment Dips for First Time in 7 Years

  "The number of new students enrolled in the nation's graduate schools in the fall of 2010 fell for the first time in seven years, even though applications for graduate programs that began that year had increased, says a new report by the Council of Graduate Schools. Between the fall of 2009 and the fall of 2010, enrollment of new students fell by 1.1 percent, according to the report, "Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2000 to 2010," which was released on Sep 22, 2011. More about: New Graduate-Student Enrollment Dips for First Time in 7 Years

• New Group Will Examine Ways to Help Graduate Students Move Into Careers

  "The Council of Graduate Schools and the Educational Testing Service said on Thursday that they are creating a commission to study and recommend ways to help graduate students move more easily through their studies and into careers." More about: New Group Will Examine Ways to Help Graduate Students Move Into Careers

• Diamondback Editorial: Don't leave it alone

  "They teach our classes, grade our papers and support our professors. They're the worker bees behind major research projects that bring money and prestige to the university. Like the human spine, they're the backbone of this institution - often hidden behind the face of their departments, but essential to their very structure." More about: Diamondback Editorial: Don't leave it alone

• Graduate assistants push for extended parental leave

  "Only one week after having her baby daughter, Anupama Kothari stepped back into the classroom to assume her role as a graduate assistant because she could not afford to take time off to recuperate." More about: Graduate assistants push for extended parental leave