The SI’s theme—Sustaining What Works, Imagining What’s Next: Building Graduate Communication for the Future—invites us to reflect on the high-impact practices, partnerships, and pedagogical approaches that continue to serve graduate students well—while also envisioning and designing the next generation of graduate communication programs.

The 2026 CGC Summer Institute, hosted virtually by Colorado State University in Fort Collins, invites you to gather online to reflect on what is working well in our programs and to envision the landscape for the next decade of graduate communication. Join us online 12:00-5:00 p.m. EDT each day June 15th-18th for four days of collegial conversation, practical insights, and collaborative planning for a future where all graduate students can thrive as communicators.

Our theme acknowledges the evolving landscape of graduate education: shifting student needs, new modalities of communication, emerging technologies, uncertainties in higher education, and growing demands on our programs. It also underscores the Summer Institute as a space where our collective imagination, experience, and scholarship help shape what comes next for our field.

Full schedule for the 2026 SI

(NOTE: Only registrants will receive a program with live links to SI sessions on Zoom.)

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Email summerinstitute@gradconsortium.org with any questions.