strategies for success

Welcome to your 24/7 resource to help you survive and thrive from your first semester of graduate school to your last. Explore strategies for professional development via podcasts, video, workshops, practical advice and many other useful resources.

• graduate college events
• graduate college podcasts

 

• advice for success
• writing in graduate school
• faculty expectations of graduate writing
• stress management
• time management
• balancing work, life & school
• mentoring

• academic integrity resources
• responsible conduct of research
• ethics of authorship

 

• course and syllabus design
• active & cooperative learning
• grading & assessment
• using blackboard
• technology and new media
• teaching large classes
• teaching online courses
• teaching lab courses
• lectures
• odds & ends

 

• tips
• writing the proposal
• funding sources

 

• citation & research management
• compiling literature reviews
• library skills

 

• habits of success
• publish or perish
• conference presentations
• publishing in academic journals
• publishing the dissertation as a book
• creative nonfiction

 

• getting started
• staying on track
• getting unstuck
• your committee
• closing it out

 

• academic jobs
• entrepreneurship
• negotiation basics
• professional jobs
• postdoctoral positions (postdocs)