About the Public Service Graduate Education Resource Center (PSGERC)

The Idealist.org Public Service Graduate Education Resource Center (PSGERC) is designed to help anyone considering the many ways to connect their educational options with their future social change careers. By providing easily accessible advice and guidance about the graduate education landscape, the PSGERC works as an online extension of the face-to-face connections made at our Idealist Graduate Degree Fairs for the Public Good.

Currently, the PSGERC consists of an ever-growing collection of original articles discussing aspects of graduate study as well as useful resources we've collected from elsewhere on the web. There are also degree overviews that detail the contours of graduate study in specific fields and offer information on career prospects and interviews with alumni, students, faculty, and admissions staff. The PSGERC also features a special group of bloggers—current and prospective grad students as well as admissions professionals—who provide their more personal takes on the graduate education experience.

The PSGERC will eventually include a directory of graduate programs for the public good. Detailed profiles will allow you to understand a wide range of degree programs, what makes them unique, and how grad school will help further your career goals.

The team behind the PSGERC

The PSGERC was developed by members of the Idealist Graduate Education Programs team, based in Portland, OR:

• Jung Fitzpatrick, Graduate Education Communications Coordinator
• Amy Potthast, Manager, Year of Service and Graduate Education Programs
• Chris Machuca, Graduate Education Events Coordinator
• Eric Fichtl, Editor
• Russ Finkelstein, Associate Director

Members of the Idealist.org Graduate Admissions Advisory Board have also provided invaluable feedback on many of the articles.

We'd like to express our deep thanks to our graduate education research interns for the tremendous work they did in helping us create this resource center.

• Danielle Battee
• Carly Brown
• Jeff Hanlon
• Ashley Hetrick
• Wei Liu
• Sara Lozito
• Chelsea Maricle
• Faith Morse
• Anna Peeples
• Bob Potter
• Tara Trullinger