The Associate Provost for Graduate and Professional Studies oversees all aspects of the Graduate and Professional School, advocating for continual improvement in graduate education at Texas A&M University.

• serves as an informal, independent, neutral, and confidential resource to help graduate students address concerns.
• can help clarify institutional policies, facilitate conversations with faculty and administrators, guide students through informal grievance processes, and connect students with others who can help. 
• considers all sides of an issue with the goal of achieving fair outcomes.
• is available to faculty and administrators who have questions about policies and practices that effect graduate students. 

• Facilitates document processing relating to graduate students’ progress toward their specific graduate degree.
• Advises faculty, staff and graduate students on university-established policies and procedures for graduate students.

Recruiting and Student Success, ogaps-grad-recruit@tamu.edu

• Performs recruiting activities in coordination with colleges and departments to attract high quality, diverse graduate students to TAMU.
• Facilitates new graduate student orientations.
• Facilitates TAMU Graduate Fellowships and Graduate Student Awards selection process.

G.R.A.D. Aggies Professional Development, grad-aggies@tamu.edu

• Offers professional development workshops, including G.R.A.D. Aggies Day.
• Shares professional development news, events and resources through the weekly G.R.A.D. Aggies eNewsletter and the Professional Development Portal.
• Administers the G.R.A.D. Aggies Professional Development Certificate program.
• Partners with colleges and non-academic units on professional development initiatives.
• Facilitates the Graduate Student Research and Presentation Travel Award (awarded quarterly; ogaps-travel-award@tamu.edu).

• Academic & Programmatic Support area fields all incoming phone, email and walk-in inquiries.
• Manages retention of graduate student records.
• Connects students and other stakeholders with resources and information.

• Reviews each electronic thesis, dissertation and record of study (ETD) for uniformity, consistency and adherence to university guidelines for quality.
• Provides a wide range of preparation support and coordinates release of the ETD for public access.

• Maintains content for Grad School managed websites.
• Facilitates Grad School Blog Ambassador Program.
• Implements and maintains Grad School processes using various systems. 
• Supports document and media production for staff.

The Data Services Team provides a variety of external and internal data collection, analysis, and reporting related to graduate and professional students at Texas A&M. The team supports participation in multiple national-level research projects, required reporting to THECB, and many adhoc data needs within the university, unit, and at times in support of the academic colleges.

• Performs recruiting activities in coordination with colleges and departments to attract high quality, diverse graduate students to the AGEP program.
• Facilitates a robust cyber-enabled social and virtual infrastructure.
• Facilitates a multi-level, highly engaged mentoring infrastructure.

• The CIRTL program is part of a national network of Tier-1 research universities.
• Offers professional development for graduate students, faculty, and postdocs in STEM departments.
• Partners with Colleges and CTE to offer local programs such as Teaching-As-Research Fellowship and STEM Learning Community Course.
• National Network offers online resources focused on teaching/career development.