GPA calculator December 29, 2006

here’s a very quick and easy GPA calculator. check it out! (PS, your current GPA can be found on myNEU, self-service, my transcript)

http://www.image-ination.com/test_maker/gpa.html

Nov. 29 COGS; Pro Seminars December 11, 2006

COGS Meeting - November 29

 

There were no new major concerns from graduate students brought to the committee, but we did talk more specifically about the pro-seminars we’d like to set up for the spring semester. A staff member suggested that grad students approach GPSA to get funding for these events. As your COGS reps, we are looking into this and will work on the funding application over Christmas break. COGS is interested in implementing these pro seminars in a more formal way in the future (i.e. for credit), but this is the best we will be able to accomplish for next semester.

Here is a list of topics around which we would like to hold seminars:
how to write a dissertation
how to write a curriculum vitae (CV)
how to submit to a journal
how to write a syllabus
how to grade effectively
how to engage your students
how to do a conference presentation
issues around co-authoring
how to give a job talk
how to do grant-writing, get external funding
how to submit to IRB

And here are some suggestions of faculty members who could potentially
be persuaded to lead various seminars:

Mike Handel
Kathrina Zippel
Sam Friedman
Heather Hindman
Matt Hunt
Barry Bluestone
Judy Perrolle
Gordana Rabrenovic
Silvia Dominguez
Danny Faber
Tom Koenig

Please examine this list and let us know which topics (or faculty members) would be most appealing to you, or suggest other topics and potential faculty presenters.  Specifically, we’d like for students to RANK them in order of importance. Perhaps let us know which 4 you’d like first, as we will not be able to get to all of these in the Spring semester alone. If there are any graduate students who would like to give a presentation (how to do a comp, pitfalls of the proposal process, etc.), please contact us and we will set it up.

For help with teaching, faculty and grad students debated whether it would be more valuable to hold a seminar in the department or to send grad students to CEUT for help. A student COGS rep pointed out that CEUT classes are often not directed at the social sciences, and may therefore not be helpful. In other news, some undergraduate students have approached the Undergraduate Committee about the quality of instruction from SGAs. Faculty debated over whether we should bring back formal teacher training for grad students. Again, it was suggested that graduate student instructors seek help at CEUT.