Travel and Accommodations for the 2025 Summer Institute
We are pleased to announce discounted room rates for the Hyatt Place Ann Arbor, the official hotel of the 2025 SI. Further information as well as guidance for travel and information on the conference site can be found here. Registration for the SI will open by the end of March and be announced here and on the listserv.
Members: Vote by March 24th in Elections to CGC Board of Directors
Member voting for CGC Board members will end on March 24, 2025 at 11:55 pm EST. Individuals with a current CGC membership as of March 9, 2025, are eligible to vote and on March 10th should have received a unique email invitation with a link to the ballot. The following positions are on the ballot: Members at Large (three positions) and Chair/Co-chairs (one position). Terms are 2 years long and begin on July 1, 2025. For candidates’ names, biographies, and personal statements, click here.
Proposal Deadline for 2025 SI Extended to Feb. 28!
We are pleased to extend the call for proposals for the 2025 CGC Summer Institute, taking place in person June 11-13 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, to February 28, 2025. See details and guidelines here. Registration for all opens April 29.
Complete the 2025 Survey of Graduate Communication Support (and Win $100)
You are invited to complete the 2025 Survey of Graduate Communication Support by April 30, 2025. The findings of the survey will expand the groundbreaking work of Nigel Caplan and Michelle Crow in 2016 and will allow us to better understand the services and programs that support graduate students’ communication development. With this survey revision, the survey also aims to longitudinally track the ways that graduate communication support changes over time. Following the close of the survey, ten $100 Amazon gift cards will be awarded via a random drawing among those who completed the survey. See more information and complete the survey here.
Apply for a 2025 Feak & Swales Travel Award!
The CGC Board is now accepting applications for Feak & Swales Travel Awards. Named after two pioneering scholars in graduate communication, the Feak and Swales scholarship awards $500 and waives registration for two applicants who wish to participate in the CGC Summer Institute and who demonstrate a commitment to or strong interest in graduate communication. This year’s Summer Institute will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from June 11-13. See details and instructions for applying here.
Positions open on the CGC Board
The Consortium on Graduate Communication is accepting nominations (including self-nominations) for the following board positions:
- Chair (or Co-Chairs)
- 3 Members-at-Large
- Terms: 2 years, starting on July 1, 2025
- Eligibility: Current CGC members in good standing
Go here for more details and instructions for nominating someone (including yourself).
First book published in the CGC/UMich book series!
Writing Together: Building Social Writing Opportunities for Graduate Students, edited by Rachael Cayley, Fiona Coll, and Daniel Aureliano Newman, is now available! The book represents the first published book in the series “Practice, Pedagogy, and Programming for Graduate Communication,” a collaboration between the CGC and the University of Michigan Press. Writing Together surveys the motivations, rationales, evaluation strategies, and structures underpinning social writing programs to create a practical resource for writing professionals who wish to establish or refine their own offerings. Rather than presenting “how to” approaches, the book presents “how we” accounts that enable readers to learn from the creative practices and experiences of others. To read more about the book and order it, go to the book page at the University of Michigan Press. For more on the book series or to submit a book idea, go here.
Request for proposals for CGC Research Awards
The Consortium on Graduate Communication Research Awards aim to encourage research projects investigating graduate education, particularly graduate communication. By deepening our knowledge of graduate student development, graduate student communication, and the pedagogical and institutional supports for graduate students’ success, the CGC Research Awards are intended to strengthen the field of graduate communication support by helping to fund the research and scholarship of our members.
- Awards of up to $2500 each are available in two cycles closing on January 15 and July 15, 2025 respectively. Awards are open to all current CGC members.
- Funds may be used for a range of research needs, including transcription, travel to collect data or conduct archival research, specialized software purchases, compensation for research participants (consistent with the IRB approval), consultations, and more.
Click here for further information and guidelines for applying.
About the CGC
The Consortium on Graduate Communication is an international association whose members provide professional development in written, oral, and multimodal communication to students before and during their (post-)graduate academic and professional programs. CGC members work with graduate students in their first and second/additional languages.
CGC’s primary activities include face-to-face and online opportunities to discuss and share resources, pedagogy, research, curricula, and program models for graduate communication.
The Consortium was created in April, 2014, and its listserv and online membership survey quickly gathered over 500 members in at least 27 countries. On this website, you can find information about meetings, resources, and programs offering graduate communication support.
If you would like to host a CGC meeting at conference or other venue (perhaps outside North America!), please contact us. We are also interested in online communication, such as chats and webinars. As an entirely volunteer-run community, we welcome all expressions of interest.
Effective December, 2016, membership of CGC requires the payment of annual dues. Members receive a generous discount on CGC events, are eligible to vote in Board elections, and may stand for Board positions. Members are also supporting the graduate communication community. Please join now!
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