UGA Graduate School receives Award for Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Admissions Practices
June 15, 2011
UGA’s Graduate School received the 2010-2011 Award for Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Admissions from the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools and the Educational Testing Service. The Graduate School was recognized for its databased Recruitment through Graduation initiative that grew out of the innovative practices developed during the Ph.D. Completion Project, a research project funded by the Council of Graduate Schools to understand why graduate students did not finish their advanced degrees. Practices now include using a variety of technologies to connect students, departments and the Graduate School such as Connect, a Web-based database, and Facebook. The Graduate School also provides funding, professional development opportunities, social networks and academic and personal advising. The Graduate School received $2,500 to fund additional innovative practices for recruitment, admissions or retention efforts.