{"id":7814,"date":"2023-01-17T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7814"},"modified":"2023-01-17T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:52:29","slug":"growing-our-graduate-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/01\/17\/growing-our-graduate-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing our Graduate School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Grad-School-visit-1-1-scaled-1-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi talking with Graduate School-affiliated faculty and staff over Zoom.\" class=\"wp-image-7908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Grad-School-visit-1-1-scaled-1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Grad-School-visit-1-1-scaled-1-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Grad-School-visit-1-1-scaled-1-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Grad-School-visit-1-1-scaled-1-1536x955.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Grad-School-visit-1-1-scaled-1-2048x1274.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou\u2019s nearly 6,000 graduate students are a key part of our research mission. Cheering on their success is the caring faculty and staff affiliated with our Graduate School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over Zoom, I recently met with the Graduate School\u2019s team to discuss our collective progress and how to inspire talented Mizzou undergraduates to consider pursuing a PhD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We plan to do more to encourage applications for graduate and post-doctoral fellowships funded by federal programs and foundations (like the <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.missouri.edu\/fellowship\/nsf-grfp\/\">NSF Graduate Research Fellowship<\/a>). These kinds of prestigious external fellowships contribute to professional development, bolster funding and improve future job prospects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those considering a career in academia, pipeline initiatives like the <a href=\"https:\/\/gradschool.missouri.edu\/postdoctoral-education\/pff\/\">Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Postdoctoral Program<\/a> help exceptional emerging scholars get ready for tenure-track positions. Of the 13 post-docs who completed PFF, 11 went on to become tenure-track faculty (including 7 who are still at Mizzou).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our successful programs reflect the university\u2019s investments in and commitment to research excellence and student success. Our Graduate School is on an upward trajectory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mizzou\u2019s nearly 6,000 graduate students are a key part of our research mission. Cheering on their success is the caring faculty and staff affiliated with our Graduate School. Over Zoom, I recently met with the Graduate School\u2019s team to discuss our collective progress and how to inspire talented Mizzou undergraduates to consider pursuing a PhD. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}