Where the National Conversation about the Graduate Student Experience Takes Place
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Gardner Institute convenings bring together people from across higher education to examine emerging research, exchange promising practices, and explore new approaches to the graduate and professional student experience.
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Upcoming Conferences and Calls for Proposals
Symposium on Transforming the Postsecondary Experience: Innovation and Design so Every Students Can Graduate
The 2026 Symposium includes a dedicated learning track focused on transforming the graduate student experience. Sessions bring together research, institutional experience, and emerging practices to examine how graduate and professional students can be more intentionally included in the broader student success movement.
October 14-15, 2026
Indianapolis, IN
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Deadline to submit proposals is October 15, 2026.
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Graduate Student Experience: Reimagining Graduate Education: Innovating for a New Era
Co-hosted by the Gardner Institute and Georgia Tech, the Graduate Student Experience brings together people from across higher education to explore the future of graduate and professional education and advance student success from prospect to professional.
April 12-14, 2027
Atlanta, GA
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Graduate Education Summit
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech’s summit on how graduate education is changing. It treats graduate students as experienced adult learners with their own motivations and preferences, and it explores new academic opportunities and support services built around those needs.
November 12, 2026
Who can attend: Georgia Tech graduate faculty and staff only.