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Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Success

Supporting the personal and intellectual growth of our graduate community.

The Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Success (GPS) is dedicated to the academic progress, optimal success, and holistic experience of TGS graduate students and postdocs to ensure they thrive and attain their full potential. GPS embodies a humanistic perspective and stands on five pillars to promote PATHS toward success: personal enrichment, academic environment, thoughtful recruitment, holistic development, and strategic partnerships.

Visit the sections below to learn more about GPS's efforts to recruit and support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Forging P.A.T.H.S. toward success.

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Personal Enrichment

Invest into the holistic experience of TGS graduate students and postdocs to ensure they thrive in their pursuit of academic success and personal growth to attain their full potential.

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A

Academic Environment

Offer proactive and responsive programming to TGS faculty, staff, students, and postdocs to promote a healthy, supportive academic environment across institutional levels.

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T

Thoughtful Recruitment

Intentional outreach and purposeful relationship building with peer academic institutions to recruit the best students, including first-generation students.

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Holistic Development

Foster the academic potential, well-being, and dignity of TGS students and postdocs through the development of programming, training, and resources.

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S

Strategic Partnerships

Develop strategic partnerships internal and external to TGS and Northwestern to expand, strengthen, and create new opportunities to support holistic success.

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Land acknowledgement

The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa. It was also a site of trade, travel, gathering, and healing for more than a dozen other Native tribes and is still home to over 100,000 tribal members in the state of Illinois.