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Welcome to Graduate Studies at McGill
August 2009
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Graduate Education
1990
• Special and important time in your life
• You have an important role at McGill – an essential element of a research intensive university
• McGill and Montreal offer you a variety of fantastic opportunities for education and personal development - Take advantage of them!
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• Total graduate students Fall 2008: 7,635(including graduate degree, certificate & diploma students)
Quebec: 4,686Other Canada: 1,449International: 1,500
Master’s: 3,473Doctoral: 2,827Graduate Certificate & Diploma: 1,335
• Total graduate students this September: 7,600 (approx.)
Some numbers:
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Administration of Graduate Studies at McGill
Your Graduate Program Office: your first stop
• The daily administration of graduate studies and advice Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS)
• Assists your Graduate Program and you with administrative aspects of your studies
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies - Dean’s Office• Dean (Associate Provost Graduate Education) and
Associate Deans • Academic and administrative responsibility for graduate
(and Postdoc) programs • Assist graduate programs and students in academic matters• Assist students
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Where is the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies?
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is located on the 3rd (Dean’s office) and 4th (administrative office) floors of the James Administration Building.
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Hierarchy of Help
• Supervisor• (Advisory Committee)
• Graduate Program Director• (Graduate Program
Coordinator)• Department Chair• Associate Deans, GPS• Dean GPS
Other services
• Ombudsperson for Students
• Services for Students
• Dean of Students
Stay informed and deal with problems early... Don’t let them fester!
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Responsibilities• McGill
• Provide the framework for you to get through your program in a timely fashion
• Provide mechanisms to support you
• Provide you with opportunities to develop your professional skills (SKILLSETS)
• Yours• Your own academic integrity
• Be informed
• Use your McGill email
• Talk to your supervisor about expectations and parameters of:
• Your work environment• Meeting frequency• Intellectual property• Travelling to conferences• Authorship
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What is Academic Integrity?
Integrity website?http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity
Test your knowledge at http://www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/test/
Fair Play?http://www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/staff/
Library resources?http://www.mcgill.ca/library
Faculty or department guidelines? http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/french/protocole_travaux.html
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Program Milestones and Progress Tracking
• The key to timely and successful completion• [program insert milestones for your programs
e.g…..]– Courses– Thesis proposal– Advisory/Committee meetings (progress tracking
reports)– Comprehensives– Thesis submission
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Improving the Graduate Experience at McGill
• Pan-university emphasis on graduate student recruitment and retention• communications• funding• supervision• program development and interdisciplinarity• professional skills• overall graduate student experience
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Tried and True Advice:Avoid Isolation
• Become involved• Seek help• Widen your horizons• Explore the city• Meet people
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How to Get Information
TO GET STARTED: your USB Key
• For policies and procedures
• For contact information
• For all graduate services at McGill
• Life in Montreal
TO STAY INFORMED – learn to navigate:
GPS website:
GPS Policies: http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/policies/
McGill Policies-Secretariat: http://www.mcgill.ca/secretariat/policies/
Your graduate program, departmental and faculty web sites
http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/
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Take advantage of McGill
Branch out from the Lab and the Library
• Interdisciplinary Opportunities
• Events
• Conferences/Conventions
• Special Talks
• Gairdner lectures
• Beatty lectures
• Tomlinson talks
• Departmental seminars
• Concerts
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Orientation Activities
• Web site of activities and information (http://www.mcgill.ca/firstyear/orientation1/graduate/)
• Graduate Orientation Open House & Welcome for New Graduate Students
Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. Thomson House, 3650 McTavish Street
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Welcome messages: Key information
Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies' Orientation Presentation [.wmv]
Dean of Students' Graduate Orientation Presentation [.wmv]
Executive Director of Student Services Graduate Orientation Presentation [.wmv]
Welcome Message from the President of PGSS [.wmv]