highlights from calendar year 2013 - Office of the Dean for Graduate

2013
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Office of the Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From Imagination to Impact:
Empowering Graduate Students to Create the Future
http://odge.mit.edu/strategy
STRATEGIC PLAN 2011-2016
Massachusetts
Institute of
Tehcnology
Office of the
Dean for
Graduate
Education
International
Students
Office
Graduate
Student
Council
This past year, our office has continued to serve our incredibly diverse graduate
students, as well as faculty and staff dedicated to the highest levels of excellence in
graduate education at MIT. We have been honored to work in collaboration with
partners across the Institute on new strategic initiatives such as the graduate
student back-up childcare program, a student quality of life survey and the graduate
student housing working group. The International Students Office has enhanced
international freshman orientation and run a successful pilot involving twice-weekly
walk-in hours. The ODGE has spearheaded a task force exploring graduate
education and digital technologies, graduate program learning assessments, and
the expansion of external graduate fellowship nominations. We continue to provide
extensive personal support to individual graduate students across the Institute, as
well as to strengthen and enhance our flagship diversity, professional development,
and community-building programs such as the MIT Summer Research Program.
We are extremely proud of the Graduate Student Council who have led a number of
new initiatives including a fund in collaboration with the Public Service Center for
graduate students to engage in local community outreach, “Taste of” cultural events
that include authentic cuisine, trivia, games, dancing, and art celebrating selected
regions of the world, and a Somerville Saferide shuttle line pilot. In 2013, the
dedicated and caring staff of the ODGE were awarded two MIT “Infinite Mile”
awards, including the entire International Students Office. We look forward to an
exciting year ahead in pursuit of our mission: “to support and serve individual
graduate students, programs and schools in order to make graduate education at MIT
empowering, holistic and transformative.”
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Best Practices: Collated best practices in fellowship acquisition from
numerous departments.
External nominations: Coordinated nominations for an increased number of
external fellowships.
ODGE STAFF RECOGNITION
• 47 ODGE Spot Awards
• 2 MIT Infinite Mile Awards including the entire
International Students Office staff
Communicating Science Workshop; “Post-Proposal
Peer Support”; Learning objectives and assessment
plans created for all graduate programs
Honoring
achievement
Graduate Women of Excellence Celebration; Awards
for teaching, arts, and community contributions
Interdisciplinary
support
“Festival of Learning”; Sidney-Pacific Committee
on Scholarly Interactions Lecture Series;
Microbiology Graduate Retreat, “Teaching MIT to
Code and Collaborate”
Graduate student
delegates at
prestigious
conferences
Delegates to the 63rd Meeting of Nobel Laureates and
Students (Germany); National Research Foundation
(NRF) of Singapore - Global Young Scientist Summit
(Singapore)
Online education
Task Force on the Future of Graduate Education in the
Context of MITx
Public service
Graduate Student Council-Public Service Center
Community Outreach Fund
Science Policy
MIT Science Policy Initiative Congressional Visits Day
Entrepreneurship
MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum;
TREE.ST/MIT
– Christine Ortiz
Dean for Graduate Education, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Graduate Women of Excellence Celebration
International
Students Office
Jeanty Tea
4
500+
500
MIT Summer Research Program students
MIT Biological Engineering PhD student Kevin Kung was nominated by the ODGE and received a
graduate fellowship awarded by the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundation. Kung, pictured above in
Nairobi, Kenya, is designing a more robust system for converting organic waste into solid fuel
under resource-constrained settings.
MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD student Cody
Gilleland, nominated by the ODGE, is the sole and first recipient of the
Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation. His research focuses on bringing
Moore’s Law to early stage drug discovery by developing new tools that
automate experimentation on small model organisms.
MIT PhD students who were nominated by the ODGE and received the prestigious
Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowships
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ENHANCING ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY
Digital ODGE
20,000
467
30
Leonor Garcia (Colombia),
Microbiology, Characterization
of a bacteriocin system
Mark Mimee (Canada),
Microbiology, Combatting
bacterial pathogens
Chen Gu (China),
Biological Engineering,
Tumor suppressive genes
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17
1
1
International student digital
e-files created
Graduate news stories on ODGE website
Individual international student
meetings
Student personal support meetings
Attendees at the Graduate Women@MIT Leadership
and Empowerment Conferences
DIVERSITY AND CLIMATE
406
Recruitment, retention & inclusivity
Increasing diversity in the graduate applicant pool: MIT Summer Research
Program including 82 interns placed in 14 departments with programming that
focuses on an educational triad of academics, research, and community;
CONVERGE; Grad Catalyst workshops on becoming a strong graduate school
candidate at the following institutions:
SUPPORTING EDUCATIONAL
INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE
Academics
Personal Support and Professional Development
7000+
COMPETITIVENESS IN GRADUATE FUNDING
Awareness and outreach: Coordinated graduate fellowship informational
sessions; Disseminated an increased number of fellowship opportunities.
HOLISTIC GRADUATE
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
• Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
• Florida International University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Hampton University
• Harvard University
• Howard University
• Louisiana State University
• MIT
• Morgan State University
• Spelman College
• Tufts University
• University of Miami
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
250+
117
100
66
24
1
Companies at the Graduate Student
Council-organized Career Fair
-40%
Student groups and activities supported
Graduate parents registered for backup child care
Student attendees at the Graduate Student Council’s
“Taste Of” Cultural Events
Graduate student and post-doctoral women at the
Path of Professorship Workshop
40%
Neutral
Somewhat
agree
80%
MIT Veterans Meetup at Fenway Park
Graduate mentors working in Outreach Programs
Somerville Saferide shuttleline pilot led by the
Graduate Student Council
Office emergency plan
MIT provides the support I need
to help me succeed academically.
Strongly
disagree
Somewhat
disagree
Source: Office of Institutional Research, Office of the Provost
Strongly
agree
• European University Association Council for Doctoral Education
(EUA-CDE) Global Strategic Forum on Doctoral Education (Ireland)
• National Society of Black Engineers (IN)
• National Science Foundation Partnership for Research and Education
in Materials Workshop (MA)
• NextProf University of Michigan Future Faculty Workshop (MI)
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans
in Science (TX)
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (IN)
All of our work is carried out with many dedicated partners across
the Institute.
My department creates a collegial
and supportive environment.
Government agencies with which the International
Students Office regularly interfaces
• Council of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting (CA)
Graduate Community Fellows
Inaugural Monthly MIT Veterans Meetup
0%
• Black Doctoral Network Conference (PA)
• Ivy Plus Conference for International Offices (IL)
Data from the 2013 Quality of Life Survey Data
(Graduate Student Survey Respondents Only)
-80%
• American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Conference (NV)
• “Drive-in Conference” on graduate student mental health (MA)
Climate efforts: Jeanty International Teas; Host to International Students
Program; Graduate Student Council Orientation; International Freshman
Orientation; Power Lunches; Graduate Women’s Group; Hispanic Heritage
Reception; Black History Month Reception; Sidney Pacific InterCultural Exchange;
Community service days; and many more…
Total graduate programs transitioned to central
admissions system GradApply
ODGE @ NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
The Ham Family, Backup Childcare
participants
MIT-Imperial Global Fellows
Program
We would like to express our gratitude to the Committee on Graduate
Admissions; the Division of Student Life; the Global Education and Career
Development Office; the HHMI internal competition review committee; the
Hugh Hampton Young Memorial Fund Council; Janet Fisher and
Massachusetts Consortium–Science Technology Engineering and
Mathematics Programs; the MIT Campus Police; MIT Community Wellness;
MIT Medical; MIT Mental Health and Counseling; the MSRP Department of
Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences programs; the ODGE Faculty
Advisory Board; the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education; the
Office of the General Counsel; the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs;
Office of Human Resources; the Office of Information Systems and
Technology; the Office of Institutional Research; the Office of Minority
Education; the Offices of the President, Chancellor, and Provost; the Office of
Resource Development; the Office of Student Outreach and Support (DSL);
the Office of the Vice President for Research; the Office of Violence
Prevention and Response; the Ombuds Office; Professors Frans Kaashoek,
Robert Morris, and Dorothy Curtis; the Public Service Center; Student
Financial Services (DUE); the Task Force on the Future of Graduate
Education in the Context of MITx; the Task Force on Graduate Student
Professional Development; and the Teaching and Learning Laboratory (DUE).
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