New Graduate Student Orientation
New Graduate Student Orientation welcomes you to campus and the larger College of Liberal Arts and Sciences community. You'll learn more about the academic, personal, professional, social and cultural resources available to you at PSU.
All new graduate students are welcome and encouraged to attend New Graduate Student Orientation.
Your graduate program may host a separate orientation program; contact your department for more information.
Fall 2023 Orientation
- When: Monday, Sept. 18, 2023; 8 a.m.-noon [Add to Calendar]
- Where: Cramer Hall, Room 71 (basement level)
- Who: Open to all; required for new graduate assistants and returning GAs who were not able to attend last year's event
- Agenda:
- 8-9 a.m.: Check-in and light refreshments, including gluten-free and vegan options
- 9-11 a.m.: Welcome from CLAS and the Graduate School and introduction to campus resources
- 11 a.m.-noon: Geared toward graduate assistants but open to all with an overview of GA employment and benefits, a presentation from the Graduate Employees Union (GEU), and an overview of pedagogy resources from the Office of Academic Innovation
Graduate Assistant Training
Graduate Assistant (GA) Training is designed to help you succeed in your role as graduate assistants and work toward creating inclusive learning and mentoring environments for undergraduate students.
This training is required for all newly appointed graduate assistants (as well as those who hold an appointment but were not able to attend last year's training). All graduate students are welcome to attend.
The DEI and pedagogy training consists of two sessions:
- Building a Reflexive Teaching & Scholarly Practice
- Explores identifying and strategically intervening in the structures of domination and erasure in academic fields and in the production and dissemination of knowledge. It supports you as you engage in a reflexive scholarly practice that complements and complicates the mastery of a body of knowledge. You will identify the roots of exclusion and inclusion in your academic field and understand how the history of your discipline affects your work today.
- Inclusive Pedagogy Training
- Provides practical, evidence-based, inclusive teaching tips that can be used in any classroom. Separate concurrent sessions will be held, one for STEM disciplines and another for humanities and social sciences disciplines.
- STEM Session
- When: Friday, Sept. 22, 3-4:30 p.m. [Add to Calendar]
- Where: Cramer Hall, Room 401
- Facilitator: Erin Shortlidge, associate professor, Biology
- Humanities and Social Sciences Session
- When: Friday, Sept. 22, 3-4:30 p.m. [Add to Calendar]
- Where: Cramer Hall, Room 325
- Facilitators: Keri Behre, teaching assistant professor, English; Lynn Santelmann, professor and chair, Applied Linguistics
Questions
If you have questions about the New Graduate Student Orientation or GA Training, please contact Heejun Chang, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs, at changh@pdx.edu, or Matt Swetnam, Graduate Assistant Program Administrator, at clasgrad@pdx.edu.