Graduate Community of Scholars 2025

The Graduate and Professional School and the Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) annually host Graduate Community of Scholars programming to bring our community together in recognition and celebration of the invaluable contributions, impact and value of graduate and professional students at Texas A&M. Graduate Community of Scholars (GCoS) events take place each spring during or around Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week. This year, events will take place the week of April 7-11.
 

Spring 2025 Theme

Each year, GCoS centers on a theme that we feel is important to -- and resonates with -- the graduate and professional community. Our theme this year, Excellence Around the World, focuses on the Aggie Core Value of Excellence. Aggie graduate and professional students embody excellence around the world, striving to align inner values with external actions that make a positive difference the world over.

The Grad School is comprised of 27% international students and Texas A&M ranks as a top five U.S. public institution for the number of students pursuing credit-bearing international experiences, according to the Open Doors 2024 Report on International Educational Exchange.

For this year's Graduate Community of Scholars events, we want to encourage this kind of excellence and honor those Aggie graduate and professional students who exemplify it.

Registration link coming soon!

 

Events

We're excited to announce and host a slate of events during and around National Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week (April 7-11). Register early! Some events have capacity or are first come, first served. 

Breakfast Tacos

Tuesday, April 8, 7:45 - 10:00 a.m., at Nagle Hall

Get your day started right! Stop by the Graduate and Professional School home in Nagle Hall for free breakfast tacos. 

Register for Breakfast Tacos (Coming Soon!)

   

Dinner and Dialogue

Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 6 - 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center's Bethancourt Ballroom (MSC 2300).

Dinner & Dialogue brings our graduate community together for a night of great food and rich conversation centered on this year's theme: Excellence Around the World.

This formal event will feature a three course meal, a keynote speaker and student panel of "Unsung Heroes" who stand out in our community for demonstrating integrity on a consistent basis or in an extraordinary circumstance. Each table will have at least one faculty or staff "table host," who will lead conversation with students.  

Register for Dinner & Dialogue (Coming Soon!)

Meet Unsung Hero Awardees from Previous Years

Graduate Community Fun Night 

Thursday, April 10, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Academic Plaza in front of Nagle Hall

Join our graduate community of students, faculty, and staff for food & drink, games and fellowship. Family and friends are welcome! Paid parking is available in the University Center Garage and the Gene Stallings Boulevard Garage. Holders of any Texas A&M parking permit may park after 5:00 p.m. in unrestricted/unnumbered spaces in most lots except lots 30, 40, 72, 99 and 122. See the campus parking map. 

Register for Graduate Community Fun Night (Coming Soon!)

  

Update Your Headshot, Courtesy of The Association of Former Students

A quality headshot can help make you stand out in a sea of candidates on LinkedIn or in other job search arenas. It’s just one step further you can go to wow people. You take time to keep your resume and portfolio updated, you invest time and energy into writing compelling cover letters, so why not top it all off with a great headshot? 

If you would like an updated professional headshot, The Association of Former Students can help. Our ‘studiopod’ is a free, simple and quick way for you to take and update your headshot.

Feel free to stop by The Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center during our normal hours (Monday-Friday, 8-5) and you will find the studiopod downstairs. It’s quick, it’s free and it’s convenient. 

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