1. How can we expand the pool of high quality graduate students attracted to our programs? In the area of student support, how can we use our existing resources more effectively and how can we increase our resources?
   • Offer multi-year packages; 95% of anticipated
   • Plan for 4-5 years
   • Administrative bailout if we fall short of promises
   • Develop a special mechanism for funding grads in graduate groups with multi-year packages
   • Fund the dissertation year
   • Have earlier deadlines for fellowships so funding resources are clearer
      
2. What kinds of curricular change/innovation should be considered in our programs?
   • Help create culture of openness about cross-disciplinary training
   • Encourage departmental flexibility with regard to students taking courses in other units
   • Make cross-listing easier in teaching
   • Collaborate to create intellectual forums or projects which involve working together in cross-disciplinary ways
   • Support cross-departmental hiring of TAs
      
3. What kinds of mentoring work best? What steps can be taken to improve mentoring?
   •  Match students with advisor in first year
   • Allow students fluidity in changing advisors
   • Give faculty incentives for mentoring
   • Give special attention to retaining students of color
      
4. What kinds of placement efforts, both academic and non-academic, workbest?How can we improve what we currently do in this area?
   • Educate faculty and students about careers outside of the academy
   • Keep track of alumnus who have gone into non-academic careers
   • Provide training opportunities, such as internships, for careers in teaching, government, industry
   • Offer career training seminars
   • Create culture of respect for non-academic jobs
   • Support, create more forums for talking together about social issues from multiple disciplinary perspectives; make link between academic knowledge and world outside the academy
   • Engage in collaborative, cross-disciplinary programming that makes links between academy and world outside
   • Make co-teaching and cross-listing easier to do
   • Recruit students with cross-disciplinary interests
   • Look for training grants to fund multi-disciplinary projects that involve work on issues of local importance
   • Take advantage of our proximity to Sacramento
   • Develop partnerships with non profit organizations and industries that support them as means to training students

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