Graduate Mentoring Awards are designed to encourage and award excellence and innovation in all aspects of graduate mentoring. Each year the Graduate College provides up to four awards of $2,000 each per year.…
The Graduate College is pleased to announce the winners of five vernal competitions: the Access Fellowship (retention); Award for Graduate Research (spring competition); the Dean’s Scholar Fellowship; the Graduate Mentoring Award; and the…
Gina Shereda (Inside Higher Ed.com) - April 13, 2020|Posted on April 13, 2020
About a year ago, I made a career transition into professional and academic development support for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. I have found the work immensely fulfilling, and as with any other…
Leah Collum (Inside Higher Education) - April 6, 2020|Posted on April 07, 2020
Some new beginnings are so promising, it feels like you’ve somehow landed yourself in a real-life fairy tale. When I moved to France for my first job after earning my bachelor’s degree, I…
Victoria McGovern - InsideHigherEd (March 30, 2020)|Posted on March 30, 2020
If you are in graduate school or beyond, you've lived long enough to know how to respond to challenges that life presents you, Victoria McGovern writes. What would your younger self tell you?
Ariel Sophia Bardi - Chronicle of Higher Education (March 27, 2020)|Posted on March 30, 2020
As a Ph.D. from an American university, and now a journalist/consultant based in Rome, I’d like to offer U.S. academics a few suggestions for surviving your time in quarantine, gleaned from what might seem like a surprising source: graduate school.
Stephanie K. Eberle (Inside Higher Education), March 23, 2020|Posted on March 23, 2020
With growing anxiety and isolation spreading across the globe, COVID-19 affects all aspects of our lives. The job market is no exception. While networking remains the top way to find and secure your…
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Colleen Flaherty (Inside Higher Education)|Posted on March 18, 2020
Michael Bruening, an associate professor of history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, serenades professors with an online teaching-themed cover of "I Will Survive." Bruening’s lyrics are tongue-in-cheek...
Mays Imad (Inside Higher Education)|Posted on March 18, 2020
While the technological know-how to virtually connect with our students is necessary, it is not sufficient to continue the teaching and learning, we need to connect emotionally -- especially in times of anxiety and uncertainty.
Every March, as faculty interview season gets underway at two-year colleges, I find myself thinking back on some of the memorable train wrecks I’ve witnessed. There was the extremely promising — not to…
Mike Atkinson, SAGE Communications|Posted on March 04, 2020
A vast majority of U.S. employers say they rely on employees with language skills other than English to advance their business goals. Those unable to fill this need may find themselves falling behind in the global market.
Inside Higher Education (March 4, 2020) In her essay “Age, Race, Class, and Sex,” black lesbian feminist Audre Lorde noted that ageism distorts relationships and encourages people to repeat mistakes of the past.…
Ihad just received a private tour of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and seen treasures like B. F. Skinner’s famous Teaching Machine, but as I sat in a curator’s office and looked out…
Natalie Lundsteen (InsideHigherEd.com, February 10, 2020)|Posted on February 10, 2020
Exploring graduate career options and determining potential career paths is tough enough, but that's just what gets you started in the graduate job search.
ERIC SCHWITZGEBEL - Illustrations by Lars Leetaru - Chronicle of Higher Education Review, January 31, 2020|Posted on February 04, 2020
If you spot one of these jerks in the wild — at a conference hotel, on the other side of the seminar table, at a campuswide committee meeting — react as if you had spotted a bear.
Trisalyn Nelson and Jessica Early ( Chronicle of Higher Education, February 2, 2020)|Posted on February 04, 2020
[Academic] life can be lonely. The traditional academic model requires you to demonstrate autonomy in scholarship and teaching....Loneliness is especially problematic if you work...in an uncongenial department...But don't be fooled.