Rebecca Schuman (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 25, 2021)|Posted on October 26, 2021
If you’re already overwhelmed by a troublesome chapter, giving yourself yet another overwhelming first task is a one-way ticket to Procrastination Station. I’ve recently developed a workaround....
Alexis Gravely (Inside Higher Education, October 7, 2021)|Posted on October 07, 2021
A federal loan forgiveness program known for its ineffectiveness will undergo major reforms over the next year, the Department of Education announced Wednesday.
Caterina Scalvedi is a doctoral student in History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Born and raised in Rome, Italy, she earned both her B.A. and M.A. in Early Modern and Contemporary History…
Brian Flood (UIC Today, August 11, 2021)|Posted on August 11, 2021
Four UIC students and alumni are among a select group of U.S. citizens offered the opportunity to study, conduct research and teach abroad for the 2021-2022 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Ph.D.s have been moving in significant numbers into other nonacademic roles for decades, but it is a recent suggestion that the Ph.D. degree, like a college humanities concentration, is a good grounding for…
Debra W. Stewart and James R. Neumeister (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 14, 2021)|Posted on July 20, 2021
The pandemic forced many graduate schools to innovate on the fly — revising longstanding policies and creating new procedures — to keep their students on track. In reflecting on what all of those…
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.”