History

It all started in a bar fight. One evening following a Graduate Student Assembly wine tasting, the leadership at the time went out for dinner. As the conversation developed over the evening it was proposed that to be a true success in graduate school you must be exclusively focused on your dissertation topic.

The group was instantly split shouting back and forth on the true purpose of a graduate education. The table was divided between purists and those who thought that graduate education should produce well-rounded, true scholars, not just specialists.

Fortunately, these lofty ideas did not fade away into the night. The days after this discussion Callie Raulfs and Thompson Mefford decided that graduate students needed an intellectual outlet outside their dissertation scholarship. After many meetings and discussions, the Graduate Scholars Society was created as a means to provide trans-disciplinary learning circles for the graduate community.

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