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2024 Path of Professorship builds up women in academia

CAPD

On November 18-19, 2023 CAPD and the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) successfully organized the 18 th annual Path of Professorship program. This revered tradition was created by Blanche Staton, former Senior Associate Director of OGE in 2006. In attendance were 38 PhD students and 30 Postdoctoral fellows.

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Given that Towson has distinguished itself as a student-centered, inclusive university, why have we, and other public institutions like us, identified R-2—and the new graduate education and research that comes with it—as a goal? What would it objectively add to our mission? Are we trying to mimic the flagship?