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Summer Hours

The Office of Graduate Admissions and Academic Services will be going back to an 8:30am-4:30pm business day starting the week of April 29, 2013.   Late hours that have take place on Monday-Wednesday from the past months will be re-started at

Posted in Event News, Other

Fall Registration Opens Today

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen!  This year we’re trying something new in regards to our fall registration and here’s the Reader’s Digest version:  Today marks the first day that matriculated students can register for graduate courses.  In the past, non-matriculated students could

Posted in Admission Requirements, Event News

How New Graduate Students Should Spend Their Summers

The birds are chirping, there’s almost no snow in sight, and it’s bearable to go outside with a light jacket on!  Soon enough … we’ll be wishing for snow because we’ll be in the middle of a hot and humid

Posted in Outside Resources

Explore Graduate School Funding Options Early

Thought the article U.S. News & World Reports “Explore Graduate School Funding Options Early” by Dr. Doc Martin was a great, quick read for those students in the planning process of returning to Graduate School.   We all know that money is

Posted in Outside Resources

It’s Time to Go Back to School

Earlier today, a few members of our office were having a discussion about whether graduate schools should require resumés and that led us into a discussion about job experience and it’s relation to age.  It’s an interesting topic in higher

Posted in Outside Resources

4 Grad School Myths Debunked

Found this article written by Dr. Don Martin on the U.S. News & World Reports website that offered some valuable insight into proving wrong a few of the most common graduate school myths going today! “The decision to go to graduate

Posted in Outside Resources

Summer Registration Dates

  Welcome back guys!  We apologize for not getting a lot of information out to you recently but we had some technical work done that limited our access to the blog this past week.  Today we wanted to inform all of

Posted in Admission Requirements, Event News

February Fun

I talked with some of the other staff members from the Office of Graduate Admissions and Academic Services and we decided that our blog needed a little more fun and entertainment for our viewers so we’re going to put up a

Posted in Fun & Games

The Benefits of Online Learning

Found this article written on the Huffington Post blog with good perspective on the value of an online education.  Enjoy! “I strongly believe that the future of higher education lies with online learning. Increasingly, colleges and university students now find themselves with other

Posted in Outside Resources

Self-Serve Portlet

We’ve got a lot of positive feedback about our self-serve portlet which allows every new applicant to check the status of their admission file from home or work and we’d like to extend the opportunity to some of our students who might

Posted in Admission Requirements, New Features