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Fifth Annual Strategic Leaders Global Summit Career Outcomes for Graduate Students: Tracking and Building Pathways - Media conference

27 Sep 2011

The Fifth Annual Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education, Career Outcomes for Graduate Students: Tracking and Building Pathways will be held at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) from September 26 to 28, 2011.

The event is co-hosted by the Council of Graduate Schools, the leading organization dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education in the U.S., and HKU.

A statement of consensus points or communiqué will be drafted in the final session of the summit. Journalists are invited to discuss the outcomes with the speakers at the close of the final session. Details as follows:

Date: September 28, 2011 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:15pm
Venue: Convocation Room, Room 218, Main Building, HKU

Background of the Fifth Annual Strategic Leaders Global Summit

Increasingly, graduate institutions from around the world are seeking to enhance the professional skills and career outcomes of master's and PhD students. Many stakeholders join them in their efforts: national and provincial governments are working to strengthen the link between graduate training and workforce development, and employers are joining national and global conversations about transferable skills and workforce needs. Most importantly, graduate students in many countries are asking for greater support for their career development as well as information about the wide range of academic and non-academic careers open to them.

These parallel trends have led graduate deans and other senior university leaders to closely follow workforce trends both locally and globally. Many universities have also sought to develop better methods of tracking graduates' career pathways and to develop programs that prepare students to adapt to new and evolving career demands.

The Submit will provide an international forum for exploring these efforts and exchanging best practices. The summit will begin with a survey of important differences between national and local systems of graduate education and an opportunity to share common challenges. Topics for subsequent panels will include:

• Local methods of tracking career patterns and outcomes
• Development of program missions in relation to careers
• Integrating workforce demands into degree design and evaluation
• Professional development programs that support career progression
• Creating a productive dialogue between universities, government, and industry about workforce demands and trends
• Approaches to global collaboration in career tracking and professional development for graduate students

For the list of participants, please visit: http://www.cpao.hku.hk/media/110928.doc

Contact: Belle Woods, CGS: (202) 223-3791 / bwoods@cgs.nche.edu  or Anna Wong, Graduate School, The University of Hong Kong: (852) 2517-6382 / annaw@hkucc.hku.hk