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From the Wexner Medical Center

COLUMBUS, Ohio – For demonstrating an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion, Insight Into Diversity magazine has awarded the 2024 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award to seven health sciences graduate programs at The Ohio State University.

The HEED Award went to the College of Dentistry, College of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Optometry, College of Pharmacy, College of Public Health and College of Veterinary Medicine. Ohio State is the only academic institution in the country to have seven graduate programs recognized.

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Inclusive Excellence at Ohio State is excited to announce important resources for your faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars.  The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized independent faculty development center dedicated to supporting academics of all backgrounds to successfully advance throughout their careers. NCFDD extends our institution’s capacity to support faculty and those pursuing doctorates and terminal degrees by offering access to NCFDD’s amazing curriculum and programming. Inclusive Excellence is proud to provide an institutional membership to NCFDD for Ohio State University.  

Ohio State currently has over 2700 members in NCFDD, including over 1000 graduate students.  Faculty and student members report that the free resources, like the dissertation success curriculum, mentoring, and the writing challenges, have helped them successfully complete their degrees and meet the expectations for tenure. This year we have had over 1300 registrations for the writing challenges alone.  We would like to ensure that everyone is aware and takes advantage of these valuable tools, and therefore request that you share this information within your college, department, or unit.

As an institutional member, all OSU faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students, as well as staff, have access to the following resources at no cost:

• Weekly Monday Motivator 

• Monthly Core Curriculum Webinars 

• Monthly Guest Expert Webinars 

• Access to Multi-Week Courses 

• Access to Dissertation Success Curriculum for graduate students 

• Private Discussion Forum for peer-mentoring, problem-solving, & moderated writing challenges 

• Monthly accountability buddy matches 

• Access to 14-Day Writing Challenges 

• Access to the Member Library that includes past webinar materials, referrals, and readings 

Please use this letter to share information about NCFDD with members of your college or department. 

To claim a free membership, participants must complete the following steps to set up an account:  

1) Go to https://www.ncfdd.org/join 

2) Scroll down to “Activate Your Institutional Membership.” Choose “The Ohio State University” from the drop-down menu.

3) Select “Activate my Membership” 

4) Complete the registration form using your name.#@osu.edu email address.

5) Go to your email to find a confirmation/welcome message from NCFDD. Click “Activate Account” in the email.  

If you have any technical questions or problems with registration, please email NCFDD at Membership@ncfdd.org. Remember to use your osu.edu address.

The Graduate School is excited to announce the coming availability of two innovative career training platforms, Beyond the Professoriate and Beyond Graduate School. These platforms, created by the Center for Graduate Career Success, provide a comprehensive and robust career exploration support system, offering accessible resources tailored to the unique needs of graduate students. 

Beyond the Professoriate’s Career Training Platform is a practical tool that helps graduate students, postdocs and PhDs successfully transition into academic or nonacademic careers. Users can explore career options, make informed career decisions, and learn proven job search strategies with on-demand courses and live workshops.

Beyond Graduate School’s online platform helps master’s students maximize their investment and build their careers. From video lessons on career exploration to guidance on writing application materials and interview preparation to negotiation strategies for that next career step, Beyond Grad School is a comprehensive resource that supports master’s students at every stage of their job search.

Both platforms promote engaged learning through reflective activities and complement existing on-campus career support, effectively helping students apply their education and training in diverse career paths. 

Look for announcements coming soon by email and on the Graduate School website with details about how to access the programs, various events you can take advantage of, and how best to utilize the tools to develop professional skills post master’s or doctorate degree.

The 2024 Engaged Scholarship Symposium, hosted by the Office of Outreach and Engagement, will feature a graduate student poster competition to provide graduate and professional students an opportunity to share their engaged scholarship. The call for proposals closes on Sept. 12. 

 Learn more and submit a proposal on the Office of Outreach and Engagement website.

The Graduate School's Strategic Training Grants team has established an initiative to provide financial support to faculty who are applying to extramural federal and private foundation training grant opportunities that support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Through this program, potential principal investigator can apply for salary, course, and/or other buyout time category, with approval by the department chair, for themselves or other individuals who are critical to the proposal development process for the semester preceding the grant's submission deadline. The maximum amount any PI can request is $15,000 or up to 20% effort for the semester prior to grant submission. Note that this pre-award initiative is designed to support PIs who are in the proposal development and grant submission process and is not intended to provide post-award salary support for PIs of active training grants.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis given the varied due dates of extramural funders in the strategic training grantmaking space. An application form (accessed through the link below) must be submitted no later than 6 months prior to the grant submission due date to be considered for funding. 

Learn more about this program, including eligibility, allowable expenses, conditions of receiving funding, and the evaluation rubric that will be used to assess proposals by visiting the application survey here: go.osu.edu/stg-buyout.

Please reach out to the Strategic Training Grants team (osupostdocs@osu.edu) if you have any questions about this initiative.