This workshop is free and open to anyone attending the 2004 annual meeting. To confirm attendance at the workshop, please contact Miriam Hauss by December 1, 2003. Although this workshop will be especially useful for history department chairs and directors of graduate studies, all members of the discipline interested in graduate education are encouraged to attend.

1:00 p.m.

Welcome
Marriott, Maryland Suite A

Arnita A. Jones, American Historical Association

1:15–2:15 p.m.

Opening Session: The Challenge before Us
Marriott, Maryland Suite A

Chair:	Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
Panel:	Why Now?
	Thomas Bender, New York University
	Information: Collection, Transparency and Responsibility
	Philip M. Katz, American Historical Association
	Strategic Planning and Transformation at the Department Level
	Colin Palmer, Princeton University

2:15 p.m.

Break

2:30–3:30 p.m.

Breakout Sessions, with members of the AHA Committee on Graduate Education serving as moderators:

Self-Assessment and Strategic Planning
Marriott, Wilson Room B

Building a Doctoral Cohort: Admissions and Funding
Marriott, Wilson Room C

Diversity, Retention, and Departmental Culture(s)
Marriott, Harding Room

Curricular Transformation
Marriott, Coolidge Room

Educating Historians for Realistic Careers
Marriott, Hoover Room

3:30 p.m.

Break

3:45–4:30 p.m.

Perspectives on The Education of Historians for the Twenty-First Century
Marriott, Maryland Suite A

Chair:	Constance H. Berman, University of Iowa
Panel:	Graduate Deans: Orlando Taylor, Howard University
	Department Chairs: Alan Brinkley, Columbia University
	Directors of Graduate Studies: Robin Fleming, Boston College
	Graduate Students: David Chang, University of Minnesota

4:30 p.m.

Break

4:45–5:15 p.m.

Closing Session
Marriott, Maryland Suite A

Address:	The AHA and Graduate Education
	Colin Palmer, Princeton