Workshop Session 1: Making Yourself Competitive for Graduate School
Making Yourself Competitive for Graduate School
Presented by:
David Shafer
Assistant Dean of the Graduate School
North Carolina State University
Dr. David Shafer is Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at North Carolina State University. He is responsible for oversight of fellowship and award programs, graduate recruitment initiatives, and diversity-focused programs. Annually, he oversees federal, state, and privately funded fellowship and traineeship programs valued at over $6 million. He served as the NC State University Principal Investigator of the NSF AGEP program, entitled the North Carolina Alliance to Create Opportunity Through Education (2005-2011), and was one of the PI's of NC State's NIH-funded Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (2008-2017). Dr. Shafer began working with The Graduate School at NC State in 1990 after receiving his B.A. in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Dean in 2003, he served as Coordinator of the Colloquium on Issues in Graduate Education and Director of Fellowship Programs. Dr. Shafer earned both a master's degree in political science (1993) and Ph.D. in public administration (2002) from North Carolina State University.
Session Location
- Foster 107
Session Date/Time
- Friday, 10:15 - 11:15am
Session Type
- Events