• Purdue Students Sweep CIC/GE Predoctoral Fellowships in Business and Engineering
• New Grad Staff Insurance Rates
• Graduate Council Approves New Graduate Staff Category
• Marcia Fritzlen and Pat Springer Promoted to Senior Coordinators
• 2005-2006 Salary Levels for Graduate Student Staff
• New Guidelines for Review of Graduate Degree Program Proposals Announced
• Graduate Student Coordinates Air Race Classic At Purdue
• Important Dates

Grad staff insurance rates for 2005-2006 will be going up $94, or $9.40 a month, for individual graduate staff members. Grad staff with dependents will see their costs for health care coverage decrease dramatically. The cost to a graduate student staff member with a spouse and children, for example, will drop more than $4,000 a year.

The Graduate Council at its April 21, 2005 meeting approved a new employment category for graduate student staff members. The Graduate Lecturer classification recognizes the teaching experience of senior graduate students with successful teaching experience who have completed all requirements for the PhD, with the exception of the doctoral dissertation. The new classification, which was developed initially by a College of Liberal Arts committee, is available immediately for appropriate appointments.

See this link for the rationale and criteria for Graduate Lecturers.

The Graduate School announces the promotions of Marcia Fritzlen to the position of senior coordinator of admissions and that of Pat Springer to the position of senior coordinator of records. The admissions office processes more than 15,000 applications for admissions to Purdue’s graduate programs each year. The records staff is responsible for tracking the progress of 7,000 students to their degrees from the point of matriculation to graduation. The promotions recognize the expertise and experience of both Springer and Fritzlen who have made longstanding contributions to graduate education at Purdue—in Pat Springer’s case for nearly 30 and in Marcia Fritzlen’s for nearly 20 years.

Marcia Fritzlen	Pat Springer

The Graduate School has published the new 2005-2006 minimum salary levels for graduate lecturers, graduate teaching assistants, graduate research assistants, graduate administrative/professional appointees, and Resident Assistants/Staff Assistants.

For the new rates, click here.

The Office of the Provost and the Graduate School have announced new guidelines for reviewing proposals for new degree programs. The guidelines will insure the orderly and efficient evaluation of proposals from the concept stage through review by the Graduate School, the Graduate Council, the Provost, the President, and the Board of Trustees to final approval by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

See this link for the guidelines.

In 2002 and 2003, Purdue's Keri Wiznerowicz competed in the race with co-pilot Heidi Moore, winning the race's first collegiate trophy in 2003. Wiznerowicz said her experiences in the race were some of the most important during her time as a student. Besides competing and interacting with the other pilots, Wiznerowicz and Moore were able to visit other aviation centers before and during the races. For example, Wiznerowicz said preflight stops at Lockheed Martin facilities played a role in Moore going to work for the company after her graduation.

Those experiences led Wiznerowicz, now a graduate student in aviation technology at Purdue, to spearhead efforts to bring the Air Race Classic to campus. She is now the race coordinator for the 2005 event and is leading the group of students planning the race.

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