CATHERINE MAYBREY & MABEL HO (UniversityAffairs.ca), June 22, 2021|Posted on July 09, 2021
With over 3,000 registrations for 16 sessions, “I am not alone,” may be the most surprising sentiment that describes the feelings of thousands of attendees at the inaugural Canadian Career Symposium for Graduate…
Jennifer Polk (UniversityAffairs.ca, orig. posted 9/04/20)|Posted on July 09, 2021
Sunny Chan earned her PhD in English literary studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently a co-op program specialist at Ryerson University’s Career and Co-op Centre, and also works as a…
Ilana M. Horwitz (Inside Higher Ed.com)|Posted on July 09, 2021
Most doctoral students don’t think they have much in common with entrepreneurs. That’s a shame. Getting a Ph.D. is a lot more rewarding if you stop trying to be a good student and start acting like you are running your own business.
Erika Holum, a student in the Museum & Exhibition Studies master’s program, has been selected for a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Indonesian during the summer of 2021. Undergraduate…
Liz Walden (Inside Higher Education, June 3, 2021)|Posted on June 10, 2021
“How do you balance full-time work and graduate school?” is a hard question. The answer is subjective, personal and dynamic. There is no one-size-fits-all, formulaic approach, but here are eight strategies.
Diane A. Safer and Natalie Lundsteen (Inside Higher Education)|Posted on May 24, 2021
Your Ph.D. program will focus a lot on the academic expertise, competencies and skills you need to develop during training. But we would like to suggest focus on career and professional advancement.
Benn Williams, Fellowships and Awards Coordinator|Posted on April 30, 2021
The Graduate College is pleased to announce the winners of five internal competitions: the Access Fellowship (retention); Award for Graduate Research (spring competition); the Dean’s Scholar Fellowship; the Graduate Mentoring Award; and the…
Maria LaMonaca Wisdom (Chronicle of Higher Education, February 19, 2021)|Posted on February 22, 2021
The institutional structures endemic to all research universities render ongoing, timely communication difficult. And in some quarters of the professoriate, there remains a residual degree of skepticism about potentially “outsourcing" advising...
Karin Fischer (Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18, 2021)|Posted on February 22, 2021
The number of first-time graduate students enrolling in American colleges has plunged by almost 40 percent during the pandemic, a decline fueled by precipitous drops from the two largest-sending countries, China and India.
James M. Lang (Chronicle of Higher Education, February 17, 2021)|Posted on February 18, 2021
None of my three simple recommendations would require you to make drastic changes in your life. Put yourself in deep-work conditions for 30 minutes a day or more, walk for 30 minutes a day....
“The impact of COVID-19 on older adults and caregivers has been extremely challenging. We hope the findings from this study will promote the physical and mental well-being of older adults and caregivers now and during future public health crises.”
The Honors College and the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Chicago are proud to announce the return of their award to highlight excellence of our graduate students’ teaching and mentoring…
Rachel Toor (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 19, 2020)|Posted on January 13, 2021
Let your argument and story emerge from your interpretation of the research. Don’t just apply theory or report on sources. Take writing seriously as an art form: Choose words that are worthy of your compositions.
Rachel Toor (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 16, 2020)|Posted on January 13, 2021
If Eve L. Ewing were a superhero, her special power would have to do with words. She is that rare academic able to combine scholarship, poetry, and writing for Marvel Comics.
Victoria McGovern (Inside Higher Education), January 11, 2021|Posted on January 12, 2021
During graduate school, I was frustrated by how my ambitions kept outrunning my time. I resolved to learn how to get more done. To succeed, all graduate students must develop a sense of how manage the big, unconstrained nature of their work...
The Graduate College is pleased to announce the winners of three autumnal competitions: the Award for Graduate Research, the Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Award, and the Provost’s Graduate Research Award.
UIC has now become a member of the CIRTL national network and will create training in inclusive evidence-based teaching practices for graduate students and postdocs.
International students who are residing outside of the United States while taking courses at the University of Illinois should submit a waiver with their current insurance information at this link: https://campuscare.uic.edu/. For help completing the…
“UIC students are exactly the kind of candidates that Fulbright is seeking,” note Kim Germain and Benn Williams, who serve as UIC's Fulbright Program Advisors. Since 1949, nearly 150 UIC students have received Fulbright grants.