Supporting Graduate Student Education:  New Textbook and NASPA Conference

In summer of 2020, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Administrators in Graduate and Professional Student Services  (AGAPSS) put out a call for submissions for a first of its kind textbook focusing on supporting graduate and professional students.  Dr. Jennifer McCauley submitted a manuscript about the improvisation-based workshop she had developed with IACS factulty affiliate, Dr. Christine O’Connell to build empathy in mentor-mentee relationships and to increase diversity and inclusion in academia.  The workshop was selected to be featured as a case study as part of the chapter on Graduate Student Success and Socialization. 

The book, A Practitioner's Guide to Supporting Graduate and Professional Students, is co-edited by Dr. Valerie Shepard (UCLA) and Dr. April Perry (Western Carolina University). This textbook is the first of its kind as there has been a paucity of information available on the topic of supporting graduate and professional students.

Once the text was in print, Dr. McCauley had the opportunity to atttend the 2022 NASPA Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, where a number of textbook authors presented their contributions. It was very rewarding to network with other professionals working with graduate students and to observe the palpable excitement this textbook generated among the attendees. 

If you are interested in learning more about the textbook, please click on the link above which will take you directly to the Routledge website. There is an appendix of helpful resources for download at www.routledge.com/9780367639884 on the tab entitled, "Support Material" available to all with no purchase necessary.