2024 Annual Conference Program
The complete conference schedule is close to being finalized. The overview below provides you with all of the confirmed details so far. The complete descriptions for all keynotes and presentations will be available in the coming weeks on this website, and eventually on the Whova app
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PROVISIONAL GCC Conference Agenda Overview 2024
Tuesday, June 25
| Time | Activity | Details |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Pre-Conference Registration | |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm | Pre-Conference | (add-on event) |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Service/volunteer opportunity at The Wardrobe | 413 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123 |
| 3:00pm - 8:00pm | Conference Registration | |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | New Member Meet & Greet | |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Conference Welcome Reception | |
| 7:30pm - 9:30pm | Community-of Practice dinners |
Wednesday, June 26
| Time | Activity | Details |
| 7:15am - 8:00am | Netwalking | Outside (weather permitting) |
| 8:00am - 3:00pm | Registration | |
| 8:30am - 9:30am | Breakfast and Networking | |
| 9:30am - 9:45am | Day 1 Welcome | Rob Pearson, GCC President; Joseph Barber, 2024 Conference Chair |
| 9:45am - 10:15am | Design thinking activity | Joseph Barber, 2024 Conference Chair |
| 10:30am - 11:20am | Member Generated Session 1 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS: DEI Exploration Weeks: Employer-Led Career Exploration for Marginalized Graduate Students through Site Visits and Skill-Building Programming
Looking back at an innovative postdoctoral program in humanities career diversity
Transforming Graduate & Postdoctoral Education: Deep Dive into Strategies for Nurturing & Advancing International GCCers
Designing Your Life: PhD Edition Pilot
The Torrey Pines Training Consortium: A Model for Enhancing Professional Development Programming Through Inter-Organization Collaboration
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| 11:35am - 12:25pm | Member Generated Session 2 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Archer Session
Demystifying Employer Engagement
Navigating Dual Academic Job Searches: Strategies for Couples
C.H.A.O.S. Planning for the Unplannable
Lightning talks: Our Year 1 Journey: Insights from the inaugural pd|hub Collection
Skills for a Successful Transition from PhD to Postdoc: A New Online Course Series to Enhance Biomedical Training
Recruiting Minoritized Graduate Students to Achieve Postdoctoral Diversity
Supporting Non-Biomed Postdocs: The First Year of SPHERE, a Community of Practice
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Networking Lunch | Including mentor/mentee conversations |
| 2:00 - 2:15pm | Intro to keynote | |
| 2:15 - 3:15pm | Keynote #1 | Details coming soon |
| 3:35pm - 4:25pm | Member Generated Session 3 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Leveraging Data-Informed Storytelling for Influence & Impact
Implementation of a PhD student internship policy in a life science environment
Career Everywhere, for Every Bulldog: A Scalable Faculty Engagement Program to Enhance Student Career Planning
OPTIONS Unveiled: Insights and Best Practices for Implementing and Scaling a Career Program
Lightning talks: Development of a theory-informed evidence-based mindfulness intervention to increase well-being among graduate students
An asynchronous commitment to allyship: 21 Days of Unlearning Racism and Learning Anti-Racism
The Trainee Podcast: Building Your Research Community
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| 4:40pm - 5:30pm | GCC Regional Meetings | Regional Directors will share more information |
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Free Time | |
| 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Main Conference Reception | Join us onboard the Moshulu! |
Thursday, June 27
| Time | Activity | Details |
| 7:15am - 8:00am | Netwalking | Outside (weather permitting) |
| 8:00am - 3:00pm | Registration | |
| 8:15am - 9:15am | Breakfast | |
| 9:15am - 9:25am | Day 2 Welcome | Dianne Hull, Social Subcommittee Chair |
| 9:25am - 9:40am | Intro to Keynote | |
| 9:40am - 10:40am | Keynote #2 | Details coming soon |
| 11:00am - 11:50pm | Member Generated Session 4 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Un-Bake the Cake: A Framework for Addressing the Biggest Obstacle to Grad Students and Postdocs Transitioning Out of the Academy
Playing the Matchmaker: Supporting internships for graduate students to explore careers (they like to think) they will love
Leveraging Emotional Intelligence and Introverted Strengths in Career Development
Love Letters, Breakups, and Other Metaphors: A Hands-On Approach to Exploring Our Relationship to Work
Lightning talks: The Impact of Life Design in Graduate Career Development
Preparing Graduate Students & Postdocs for Exploring Career Options Utilizing the myHub Career Exploration Modules
Integrating Career and Immigration Planning for International Scholars
Individual Development Plan-Processes and an IDP Evaluative Toolkit in Action: Impacting Undergraduate and Graduate Student Professional Identity Development.
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| 11:50pm - 1:20pm | Lunch | Treasurer’s Update and GCC Committee recognition |
| 1:20pm - 2:10pm | Member Generated Session 5 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Breaking new ground: cultivating a mentorship and career design ecosystem
Connecting Grads and Postdocs to Career Possibilities through Employer Site Visits
A New Career Development Model to Support International PhD Students and Postdocs
Doing Less with Less: Strategic Decision-Making to Prevent Burnout and Boredom
Communicating Innovation: Insights from GCC's Carpe Careers Contributors
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| 2:25pm - 3:15pm | Member Generated Session 6 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Increasing Learner Investment in Professional Development through Needs Analysis and Tailored Approaches
Unleashing AI: Prompting to Transform Graduate Career Advising
ImaginePhD 2.0 - Time for an Upgrade
Near-Peer Mentoring Between Postdocs and Graduate Students
Lightning talks: Scaling an Alumni Micro-mentoring Program
Driving Graduate Student Engagement Using CRM Technology
Ask Me Anything: Re-engaging and Rebuilding
Navigating the Nexus: Bridging the Gap between Academic Department Level Administrators and University level Professional Development Programs
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Presentation Showcase | In addition to GCC Committee posters, the following is a list of sessions currently scheduled for the Presentation Showcase (there may be some changes before the schedule is fully confirmed): Harness YOUR Data - A live demo using an Intersectional Approach to Mental Health and Wellness Data - And interactive consult on collecting, displaying, and analyzing YOUR data!
Harnessing Data to Support Outreach and Learner Engagement: A Case Study of Hyper-Personalized 'Nudge Emails' in the Postdoc Academy
Propelling Historically Excluded Populations Toward Faculty Careers
Passion in Practice: Case Studies and Resources to Empower Your International Scholars
Global Employer Immersion Experiences: Individualized Employer-Led Shadowing and Interactive Programming On-Site during Winter Term
Navigating Disruption, Redefining Success: Higher Ed Careers Beyond the Professoriate
International Student Professional Development Through Service Learning Programs
In It Together: Collaborating Effectively to Maximize Your Reach and Impact
Career Planning among PhD Students in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review
Leveraging cross-institutional collaboration to grow career development tools
Cultivating Excellence: Enhancing PhD students and Postdocs Well-being in Biomedical Sciences at Vanderbilt University
Building 'Non-traditional' Relationships: Partnering with Philanthropy to Introduce Students and Postdocs to Donors and Alumni
All is Fair in Love and Employer Engagement
The CareerHub: Establishing a Collaborative Career and Professional Development Institutional Resource Platform
Please Advise: Launching and Learning From a Graduate Student Advisory Committee
Vanderbilt University's ASPIRE Internship Program: Opportunities for Enhanced Experiential Learning during Biomedical Sciences Training
The Next Generation of Recruitment: Holistic Storytelling with Intelligent Software
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| 6:20pm | Networking at the ballpark | Phillies v. Marlins at Citizens Bank Park (add-on event) |
| 6:30pm | Dine-arounds |
Friday, June 28
| Time | Activity | Details |
| 7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast | |
| 8:30am - 8:40am | Final day thoughts | Rob Pearson, GCC President |
| 8:40am - 8:50am | Future plans – president-elect | Lauren Easterling, GCC President-Elect |
| 8:50am - 9:00am | introduction to 2025 GCC Annual Conference Chairs | |
| 9:15am - 10:05am | Member Generated Session 7 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Innovate Your Job with Design Thinking: Part 1
Designing for Modern Learning: Leveraging our Pandemic-Era Innovation for the Long Haul
Beyond the 3 Minute Thesis: A Comprehensive Support Program for Professional and Communication Skill Development
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| 10:20am - 11:10am | Member Generated Session 8 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Innovate Your Job with Design Thinking: Part 2
Evolving Careers of Biomedical PhD Alumni: a longitudinal analysis
A holistic consideration of career transitions through a competency lens
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| 11:25am - 12:00pm | Interactive conference wrap-up, reflection, and closing | Joseph Barber. 2024 Conference Chair |
| 12:00pm | End of Conference | |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Service/volunteer opportunity at The Wardrobe | 413 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123 |
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