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Graduate Student Survey Professional development and well-being Maggi Sliwinski History Began developing survey questions in Fall 2015 Focus on professional development, well-being, and degree completion Reviewed by GSA, Bureau of

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Graduate Student Survey Professional development and well-being Maggi Sliwinski

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History

Began developing survey questions in Fall 2015
Focus on professional development, well-being, and degree completion
Reviewed by GSA, Bureau of Sociological Research, Graduate Studies
Piloted by committee chairs and executives in spring 2016
Research approved by Institutional Review Board on April 20, 2016

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Preparing for academic career Preparing for non- academic career Graduate student experience Reforms needed Retention/Attrition

Attributes for careers (Manathunga & Lant 2006) Grad school as socialization, increasing demands on faculty, little training; Guidance on developing skills/ transferring skills

utside academe not

available (Austin 2002) Advising roles and productivity (Green and Bauer 1995) Generic skills debate— list of skills suggested and question for study (Gilbert et al. 2004) Core competencies developed by PhD students (Durette et al. 2014) Transferable skills (Morrison et al. 2011) Enterprising skills (Lean 2012) Skills preparation (Wheadon 2014) Integrated PhDs (Porter and Phelps 2014) Employability attributes (Golovushkina and Milligan 2012) Attribute development (Manathunga et al. 2009) CGS 2014 Self-handicapping (Kearns et al. 2008) Factors affecting women (Holmstrom and Holmstrom 1974) Code of Conduct (Propper 2012) Variety of topics (Anderson and Swazey 1998) TTC (Seagram et al. 1998) Student vs Faculty attribution of attrition and support services (Gardner 2009) Departmental attrition/ways to improve (Golde 2005) Work-life balance (Lester 2013) Work-life balance (Mason et al. 2009) Unions (Whitford 2014) Well-being (Pychyl and Little 1998) Better training, evaluations, exploitation (Anderson and Swazey 1998) First-year attrition (Golde 1998) Group cohesiveness and support, peer mentoring (Dorn and Paplewis 1997) Departmental factors relating to completion (Valero 2001)

Network analysis

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(quant) How does job preparation contribute to graduate degree completion? (qual) What can the university do to improve completion?

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Topics covered

Relationship with advisor
Career preparation and job search activities
Professional development opportunities and productivity
Transferable skills
Teaching assistantships
Departmental climate and program cohesiveness
Well-being
Imposter syndrome
Degree completion
Financial status
Demographics

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Distributing survey

Email with link to survey sent by Office of Student Affairs on January

31, 2017

Reminder email with link sent from Office of Student Affairs on

February 14, 2017

Total emails: 5126
Total complete responses: 475 (9.2%)

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UHC, 48% used

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CAPS, 18% used

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Career Services, 9.5% used

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Student Money Management Center, 3% used

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Grant writing workshop, 81 used

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Career Fair through Career Services, 78 used

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Application review: Career Services, 51 used Application review: Graduate Studies, 19 used

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Resources in departments: Ombudsperson or grievance committee

67 12 72 374

100 200 300 400 Not available Available but not adequate Available and adequate Don't know

Highlights: School of Natural Resources, Educational Administration, Legal Studies

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Resources in departments: Graduate student handbook

19 69

298

138

50 100 150 200 250 300 350 Not available Available but not adequate Available and adequate Don't know

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Resources in departments: Family and medical leave posted

42 12 83 387

100 200 300 400 500 Not available Available but not adequate Available and adequate Don't know

Highlights: Agronomy and Horticulture, Educational Administration, Entomology, MBA

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Financial Status

50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500

I am not sure I will have enough funds to complete my studies. I probably will have enough funds to complete my studies. I am confident that I will have sufficient funds to complete my studies.

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Completion Transferable Skills (being developed) Well-being Relationship with advisor Job confidence Departmental climate Program cohesiveness Imposter syndrome Demographics: age Productivity (single number) Financial status Career prep activities Cronbach’s alpha used to check for internal consistency. P-value < 0.05

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Well-being

Relationship with advisor

Job confidence Departmental climate Program cohesiveness

Imposter syndrome

Productivity (single number)

Financial confidence

Career prep activities

Transferable Skills (being developed)

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Transferable Skills (being developed)

Relationship with advisor Departmental climate

Program cohesiveness Imposter syndrome Productivity (single number) Career prep activities

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Completion

Transferable Skills (being developed)

Well-being Relationship with advisor Job confidence

Departmental climate Program cohesiveness

Imposter syndrome

Demographics: age Productivity (single number) Financial confidence Career prep activities