MAGS Annual Meeting 2026

The 82nd MAGS Annual Meeting will be held at the Kansas City Marriott at Country Club Plaza on March 25-27, 2026. The meeting theme is: “Breaking the Standard: Responding to Rhythms of Disruption in Graduate Education.”

Priority Deadline for Abstract Submissions:
October 15, 2025
Call for Abstracts
Abstract Submission Form

For detailed information about the MAGS annual meetings, please see our conference planner’s site at uwlax.edu/mags.


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Past MAGS Meetings

Year Location Topic
2025 Indianapolis “Restart your Engines to Renew, Refresh, and Reimagine Graduate Education.” Download Meeting Archive
2024 St. Louis “OverARCHing Issues for Graduate Education in Dynamic Times.”
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2023 Chicago “Great Expectations: Graduate Education in a Changing World.”
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2022 Milwaukee “Student-Centered Graduate Education: Emerging Pathways for Student Success.” Download Meeting Archive
2021 Virtual “Rising to the Challenge: Strengthening Graduate Education During Uncertain Times.”
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2020 Milwaukee Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Milwaukee meeting was rescheduled to 2022, and MAGS 2020 continued as a Fall 2020 Virtual Conference.
2019 St. Louis “Changing Times: Challenges and Innovation in Graduate Education.”
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2018 Grand Rapids “Stronger Together: Collaborations across a university community that support and strengthen graduate education.”
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2017 Indianapolis “The Midwestern Advantage”
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2016 Chicago “Graduate Education Pathways”
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2015 St. Louis “Graduate Education for the 21st Century”
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Proceedings from past Annual Meetings