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.
Andy Thomason (Chronicle of Higher Education)|Posted on July 14, 2020
The Trump administration has rescinded guidance that would have prohibited international students from studying at campuses offering online-only instruction this fall.
Audrey Williams June (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 12, 2020)|Posted on June 16, 2020
There’s plenty of evidence that higher education is relieved to have its emergency pivot to online learning safely behind it. But a repeat performance of remote instruction in the fall will be happening partially at…
Inspired by another difficult time in the country’s history, the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Chicago created a new award in order to fund graduate students who are suddenly un-…
Having lived through burnout and come out of it stronger and wiser, Pope-Ruark has been sharing her experience with others, in hopes of offering support and advice for how to deal with teaching during a pandemic. Coping with burnout....
The goal of the Access to Excellence Fellowship is to increase the number of students from historically underrepresented groups in graduate education who enter careers as researchers and college faculty. Recipients of the…
The Graduate College at the University of Illinois has created a new award in order to fund graduate students who are suddenly unfunded for the summer due to the global pandemic. Inspired by…
Beckie Supiano (Chronicle of Higher Education) - April 23, 2020|Posted on April 24, 2020
It’s admittedly difficult to know how much of the exhaustion many academics are feeling is about the way they’re communicating and how much is about what they’re living through. But there’s something inherently draining about video chats.
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…