The GLASS Needs Filling

Special activities and initiatives of the

Great Lakes Alliance for Social Sciences

(GLASS)

Alliance Members

Northwestern University

University of Chicago

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Ohio State University

Penn State University

Temple University

University of Wisconsin

Characteristics of Alliance Members

• Mix of public and private.

• Medium to large.

• All R1 universities.

Shared Recruiting• Name exchanges

– Names from recruiting trips

– Our own undergraduates

– Our own PhDs ready to graduate

Shared Recruiting

• Common recruiting brochure

– Template with information for all members

– Blank space for each school to specialize

– Know each others strengths• recruit for alliance• direct potential students to best school• increase chances of success

Shared Recruiting

• New venues for recruiting – 18 midwest small liberal arts colleges

• Special programs:– Tuition scholarship for Fattah attendees with

1200 GRE who matriculate at Temple – possible adaptation at other members

– Possible application fee waivers for applications within alliance

Shared SROP Initiatives

• Search for and share new kinds of opportunities– e.g., Ohio State University connection to Law and

Criminal Justice Institute

• Possible shared, multi-year experiences – Students do two years at two institutions but working

on same research

• Alliance presence at SROP conferences– Group meetings between grads and undergrads from

across alliance– Joint presentations/discussions by alliance

Shared Workshops

• Joint sponsorship of video conferences– Temple – Diversity in Public Health– Wisconsin – Jobs in Library Science– U. Chicago (this spring) – Publishing

• Shared local workshops– Retention (statistics, writing)– Professional Development (how to negotiate the job)

• Alliance annual conference (planned)

Others

• Northwestern Book Club – may share across alliance via video-conferencing

• Possible cooperation between alliances– Midwest AGEP – STEM (Purdue, Indiana, NU)– GLASS– Emphasize the need for social-science input to

technology