VPGE in the News

Recent News Stories about VPGE

• Reinventing Graduate Education (2010 Annual Report, a report on progress in the graduate education initiative of the Stanford Challenge)
• Alumni scholars encourage the next generation to pursue life in academia (Stanford Report, May 5, 2010, concerning Distinguished Alumni Scholars Day)
• Twelve More Students Will Earn DARE Doctoral Fellowships in 2011 (Stanford Report, April 30, 2010, report from April 29 Academic Senate presentation)
• Terminal Grad Fees Fall Slightly (Stanford Daily, March 2010, regarding TGR tuition)
• Boothroyd, Sheppard to join Office of Vice Provost for Graduate Education (Stanford Report)
• Reinventing graduate education: New Stanford grant program aims to foster creativity, community in Ph.D. programs (Palo Alto Online)
• Innovation Funds Help to Strengthen Graduate Education (Stanford Report)
• A New Push for Diversity (Stanford Magazine)
• Diversifying Academia Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Fellowship program announced (Stanford Report)
• November 29, 2007 presentation by Vice Provost Gumport at the Faculty Senate: minutes and PowerPoint slides
• Law school offers class for graduate students on thinking like a lawyer (Stanford Report)
• Vice Provost Gumport on interdisciplinary opportunities for graduate students (Interaction)
• President Hennessy’s announcements about graduate education at the Spring 2007 Academic Senate Meeting (Stanford Report)
• Appointment of Vice Provost Gumport (Stanford Report)
• VPGE programs for diversity and SGSI (Stanford Report)
• Report of the Commission on Graduate Education, November 2005(pdf)

Recent Publications by VPGE staff

Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts

edited by Patricia J. Gumport

Johns Hopkins Press, 2007

Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education: Preparing Stewards of the Discipline. Carnegie Essays on the Doctorate

edited by Chris M. Golde and George E. Walker

John Wiley and Sons, 2006

Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century, by George E. Walker, Chris M. Golde, Laura Jones, Andrea Conklin Bueschel, and Pat Hutchings. John Wiley and Sons, 2008