The Graduate Student Experience at VT

The Graduate Life Center provides an intellectually stimulating and rich learning environment that builds a strong graduate community.  The GLC is the hub of graduate student life.

GEDI is designed to address the professional development concerns of 21st-century graduate students.  It focuses on multidisciplinary pedagogy practices that integrate the critically engaged use of advanced technologies.

For graduate students preparing to become faculty: this graduate certificate aims to prepare our future faculty and academic leaders by exposure to concepts that break the mold of existing practices in higher educations.

The Citizen-Scholar Experience (CSE) at Virginia Tech is a program designed to give graduate students an opportunity to utilize their skills and knowledge in a real-world setting. It is hoped students who participate in the experience will gain "public scholarship" — scholarship in service to the community, the state, the nation, and the world.

In keeping with the Graduate Life Center's vision to build graduate community, the Virginia Tech Graduate Scholar Society provides a stimulating learning and social environment composed of a small group of fellow graduate students.

The GSA is the governance organization for the graduate and professional student community at Virginia Tech. The GSA represents students' concerns and is their liaison with the University
Administration.

The Graduate Committee in the Department of English determines all policies governing its graduate programs (subject to the approval of the department chair). Graduate students' interests and concerns are represented by the graduate student members of the Committee. These two representatives are elected by the graduate students. Students are advised to voice their questions, concerns, or complaints about the graduate program to their representatives on this committee.

This program provides graduate students with funding for travel, accommodation, registration, and meal expenses associated with the presentation of their research at professional conferences, symposia and other similar events.

This program provides graduate students with funding for travel, accommodation, registration, and meal expenses associated with the presentation of their research at professional conferences, symposia and other similar events.

These grants support professional activities, such as presentations or readings at national and regional conferences, research, or professional development. Students submit a one-page proposal with details of the activity and its relationship to their academic or teaching goals to the Director of Graduate Studies for review by the Graduate Committee, which recommends appropriate projects to the department chair.  Amount varies depending on funds available and the project budget; typically $150-300.   

2006 Conference Program

2007 Conference Program

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