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Much of graduate student life is based in the various departments and
in dormitories or apartment complexes. The new McDougal Center is a
place where graduate students from across the campus regularly meet
and share interests. It is located in the Hall of Graduate Studies
(HGS), 320 York Street (432-8273,
mcdougal.center@yale.edu, http://www.yale.edu/mcdougal.
A generous gift from Mr. Alfred McDougal, a Yale alumnus, and his
wife, Ms. Nancy Lauter, enabled Yale in 1997 to create the McDougal
Graduate Student Center. The McDougal Center provides space and
program funding for building intellectual, cultural, and social life,
and for facilitating professional development activities across the
departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The
McDougal Center warmly welcomes the participation of students from
other Yale Graduate and Professional Schools, postdoctoral fellows,
faculty, staff, alumni/ae of the Graduate School, and members of the
larger Yale community. Its web site
(http://www.yale.edu/mcdougal)
provides all kinds of
information relating to graduate student life. The Center provides
members of the graduate student community with a place of their own
on campus.
The facilities of the McDougal Center enhance student life in many
ways. The magnificently restored Common Room has been transformed
into a lounge with comfortable furnishings, internet ports,
newspapers and magazines, and a student-run cafe serving coffee and
light food throughout the day. In an adjacent wing on the first
floor of HGS the Center has a large multi-purpose Program Room (HGS
119) with a portable stage, seating for up to 100, and advanced video
and sound projection equipment. The Program Room provides space for
lectures, conferences, performances, film series, workshops and other
events by and for students. The Center also has smaller conference
and meeting rooms. Graduate student groups and departments may
request to reserve space by contacting the center office at
432-8273, stopping by HGS 123, or filling out a request on line at
www.yale.edu/mcdougal/rooms.htm. There is a
public computer cluster supported by Academic Computing Services, a
public copy machine, a
public phone, bulletin boards and information kiosks as well. The
lower floor also offers offices for the Assembly of Graduate
Students, graduate student organizations, rooms for Teaching Fellows
to meet with students, lockers for graduate student use and vending
machines. The McDougal Center is open days, evenings, and weekends.
The Center offers a
variety of activities open to the Graduate and Professional
community. These include
weekly movies on the Really Big Screen, coffeehouse musical evenings,
happy hours, poetry readings, student research presentations, health
and wellness workshops, teas with campus and community figures, and
service opportunities such as blood drives. It hosts activities
organized by student groups and departments, including cultural
festivals, movies, lectures, receptions, and conferences. Activities
are publicized in campus publications, in McDougal Notes calendar, on
the web site, and via email lists. Find out what's going on at your
Center today! Lisa Brandes, Director, 123 HGS, 432-8273.
Graduate Career Services was established to guide and educate
graduate students about academic and non-academic career
opportunities and job search strategies. The office offers programs
such as professional career development workshops, seminars,
resume/CV reviews, individual counseling, on campus interviews,
dossier service and current job listings. 123 HGS,
432-8850, www.yale.edu/gcs.
The mission of the Teaching Fellow Preparation and Development
Program to help improve the teaching skills of Yale graduate students
and to contribute to their professional development as teachers. Dr.
Rando directs the teacher preparation programs within the McDougal
Graduate Student Center, and also works with faculty and graduate
students to enhance teacher preparation programs in departments. He
advises the Working at Teaching program (www.yale.edu/wat).
WAT offers peer-led training workshops for beginning and advanced
teaching fellows each semester, promotes dialogue in the Yale
community about all aspects of pedagogy through forums and lectures,
and supports teaching fellows by publishing a handbook, maintaining a
resource office, and conducting classroom consultations.
Bill Rando, Director, 123 HGS, 432-7377.
This is a self-service reference library intended to assist Yale
graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in finding fellowships,
pre-dissertation, dissertation, travel and research funding. Teacher
training and career services books are being added. It contains a
physical site (Room B44) of grant and funding books, announcements,
and files on programs and topics, and a virtual site of links,
announcements and searchable databases. For room access, check out
the key from the Center office, Room 123 HGS, or ask the night
program attendant on duty to let you in. Handouts and the web can
explain to you how to use the materials, but the actual research is
up to you. B44 HGS, McDougal Center,
www.yale.edu/mcdougal/resource.htm.
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Drew McDermott
2000-01-18