The Mentoring Connection: Peer mentoring
Read up on some of the ways you can care for yourself through mentorship.
Graduate school is designed to challenge and expose students to multiple perspectives. It can represent a paradigm shift for many new students acclimating to new programs departments, and communities. Achieving work-life balance, developing and maintaining relationships are stressors that can become barriers to academic success.
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Inside Graduate College’s Three Minute Thesis competition
When Aliyah Egan stepped onto the stage as a master’s student in last year’s Graduate College Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, she faced a challenge familiar to many researchers: explaining complex, specialized work to an audience with little or no background in her field.
Mentoring with intention: Strengthening graduate support at ASU
January is National Mentoring Month, a time to celebrate the impact mentoring can have and to reflect honestly on where gaps remain. At Arizona State University, mentoring is recognized as a critical component of graduate student success.
Graduate education is an adventure
About eighteen months ago, I set out on a journey walking the islands of the Dodecanese during a sailing trip in Türkiye and Greece with several friends. Along the way, I found winding paths, timeless villages and breathtaking views of sea and sky. That experience got me thinking about how adventure shows up in other parts of life, especially in learning.