Our mission is to prepare and provide opportunities to future organizational scientists by:

• Fostering creative “trans”-disciplinary thinking
• Diversifying the pipeline to the professoriate
• Increasing understanding of the research process
• Developing sustainable relationships among organizational science scholars
• Promoting innovation and creativity in research and practice
• Providing a well-rounded and inclusive educational experience

Objectives

Facilitate the research process

Idea generation with an Organizational Science focus

Conceptualization

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

Presenting

Writing/Publishing

Collaboration

GRE prep sessions

Overview of the graduate school application process

Connect with OS faculty and student research mentors

Realistic career preview

Exposure to role models

Provide forum for attendees and alumni to meet and socialize

Our OSSI Fellows have said

“I really liked the helpful atmosphere and faculty. And the one on one attention was very nice. The faculty and grad students were awesome. I liked the insight we got and I think it was extremely enlightening.”

“The mentors were great. The GRE program is AWESOME!!!”

“…The graduate school seminars were helpful. Speed mentoring was cool. I liked learning about the different aspects I liked the speakers all the power hour sessions were nice. All the grad students were nice. I liked the GRE training; it gave me confidence for the test. I liked learning about the Org Science field.”

“I loved everything! The thing I liked the most was the faculty/grad students and the OS community in general. You were all very supportive, inspirational and nice =).”

“The support we got was fantastic. The mentors, professors, and speakers provided useful insight into the organizational science field.”