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March 16, 2021In this issue: Working Effectively in Teams series, deadlines for commencement, and more.
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Tips for Grads: Navigating Job Negotiations
Job negotiations are intimidating, but they are also important to securing salary and benefits that accurately reflect your values and the career market. Understanding that negotiations might be unfamiliar or uncomfortable, Sarah Schaefer from the Career Center in the School of Education shared tips on negotiating job offers that might be helpful in preparing you to negotiate. So, let’s break it down into these three sections: prepare, research, and evaluate.
Prepare: Practice what you want to say, practice how you will phrase your negotiations. A helpful way to practice is in a mock interview. To prepare the content behind the conversation, hold a couple informational interviews with folks in the field. Practice using the company’s language and probe current employees about the work climate and appropriate pay for the position you're applying to.
Research: Check out this previous Tips for Grad column on “Empowering your Job Negotiations” to try out some of the tools you can use to look up salaries, benefits, cost of living, and more. This type of research empowers you with knowledge and allows you to negotiate in a manner that is feasible to the company and agreeable to you.
Evaluate: Allow yourself time and space to process a job offer. You don’t have to accept the position on the spot. You’ll want to ensure you’re asking for everything you need in a job and make sure the position is a right fit for you.
GradConnections Weekly is looking for fresh perspectives on the graduate student experience.
If you have advice, counsel, or tips for UW grad students, you’re invited to write a guest column for “Tips for Grads.”
If you’re interested, check out our infographic for details and email gspd@grad.wisc.edu to let us know.
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DiscoverPD is an innovative tool for UW–Madison graduate students to advance their academic and professional goals. Review the nine facets of professional development, complete a self-assessment, and get a customized report and recommendations.
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Upcoming Professional Development EventsAll event times and deadlines are listed in Central Daylight Time (CDT).
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Dr. Shalini Nag, Founder, EvidaSolve
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Our lived experiences, natural behavioral styles and strengths make each of us unique, and contribute to our perspectives, our ways of working and how we show up in the context of a team. By the end of this session, you will: expand your understanding of a team, learn how our identities and social styles impact team dynamics, and learn how you can avoid common pitfalls that hinder effective teamwork. You are welcome to register for either one or both sessions.
Numerous studies demonstrate that the best teams comprise diverse members who bring a range a perspectives, knowledge, and skills. While such differences are key to creativity, innovation, and team success, they can also result in conflict. By the end of this session, you will: understand positive and negative conflict, learn basic conversational techniques to navigate difficult situations, and apply these techniques to familiar scenarios.
The focus of this session is on helping faculty develop a plan to navigate their faculty career, with a focus on the needs of mid-career faculty. The presentation will discuss some typical barriers that faculty face at mid-career and share recommendations for navigating career transitions. The session will be appropriate for newly tenured or more senior associate professors. Graduate students and newly hired faculty may also find this session of interest, as they look to what will happen once they earn tenure or have been in their positions for a while. Department chairs and deans may also find this useful as there are tips provided on how to support faculty at mid-career. Click here to activate your NCFDD account through the UW–Madison institutional membership.
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- JavaScript 1
- CSS 1
- Excel 3
- Python
- MATLAB 1
- Data Wrangling with Stata (Independent Study)
- Data Wrangling in R (Independent Study)
- Python Office Hours
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Special Events & Symposia
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Pickup times:
- Tuesday, March 23 - noon - 7 pm
- Wednesday, March 24 - noon - 7 pm
- Thursday, March 25 - noon - 7 pm
Morgridge Entrepreneurial Bootcamp (MEB) - Virtual
June 7-11 and June 14-18 | 11 am - 12:30 pm
MEB applications due by Thursday, May 13 or when program reaches capacity
The Morgridge Entrepreneurial Bootcamp is a one-week intensive training program in technology entrepreneurship for graduate students in the sciences, engineering, and math. Students will have the opportunity to participate in a daily session including case analyses, lectures, and class exercises for which there will be readings, class assignments and lively interaction with instructors and classmates.
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Deadline to drop class extended
- April 16, 2021 – Deadline for students to drop a course without dean's approval
Spring commencement returns to Camp Randall; deadline reminders for graduates
Last week, campus leaders announced plans to hold graduates-only commencement ceremonies for spring 2021 graduates at Camp Randall. The university is planning two ceremonies on Saturday, May 8 — one for undergraduates, the other for all graduate degree candidates. Families and friends may participate virtually. For more information, visit commencement.wisc.edu.
Upcoming commencement deadlines:
- Friday, April 9: Deadline to apply for your name to be included in the winter commencement program using the “Apply to Graduate” function in MyUW Student Center. See the full graduate checklist.
- Monday, April 11: Deadline to rent academic attire from UW Book Store without late fee.
New process to check on COVID-19 vaccine eligibility and schedule appointments at UHS
Starting this week, students and employees will use their MyUHS account — found at go.wisc.edu/myuhscovidvax — as a portal to access COVID-19 vaccine eligibility information and appointment options. Graduate students should use the MyUHS portal to check their eligibility; you will not receive an email from UHS. Read the full news release. Campus will also continue to share frequent news updates about vaccine eligibility. A town hall on COVID-19 vaccines at UW–Madison is scheduled for Thursday, March 18 at noon; you can join the town hall here.
Apply now for May Dissertation Writing Camp
Supported by the Graduate School and facilitated by Writing Center senior staff, the virtual Dissertation Writing Camp is scheduled for May 24-28, 2021. Camp offers an opportunity for dissertators to make significant progress on their dissertations by drafting a substantial amount of writing in a structured, collegial, virtual environment. Develop writing strategies, receive feedback, build peer support, and reserve uninterrupted time to focus on your dissertation. Applications are open now and are due by Friday, April 9, and require an advisor endorsement. Visit the Graduate School Dissertation Help webpage for detailed descriptions and application information.
Complete the National College Health Assessment
Your health and wellbeing are of critical concern to the UW–Madison campus community. To better understand and meet your needs, UW–Madison is administering the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) to a sample of students from March 15-29. If you were selected to participate, you have received an email invitation on Monday, March 15 (sent by ncha-web@acha.org). Your responses are confidential. Students who spend the 20-30 minutes required to complete the survey can enter to win cash prizes. Campus relies on the data generated by this survey to guide the improvement and equity of policies, programs and services supporting your physical and mental health, safety and ability to flourish and be successful. An adequate number of representative student responses are essential for a robust data set, so please take time to complete the survey if you are selected as part of the sample.
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Help prevent the spread of COVID-19
With your help, we can limit the spread of COVID-19 by following health protocols, such as maintaining at least six feet of distance from people you don’t live with and wearing face coverings. In addition, take advantage of no-cost campus testing to get tested for the virus if you have symptoms, have been in close contact with someone with COVID-19, or plan to come to campus. If you have questions about COVID-19 testing and safety measures in the spring semester, check out these top FAQs.
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UHS services available remotelyUniversity Health Services is committed to supporting you. Many medical, counseling, and wellness services are available by phone and accessible online. Find out more on the UHS Remote Health and Connection webpage.
Mental Health Resources for Grad StudentsAccording to the 2019 Healthy Minds Survey, 93% of UW–Madison graduate students do not think any less of a peer who seeks mental health care, and 89% of UW–Madison graduate students who used mental health care found it helpful.
- SilverCloud. This online, self-guided resource provides treatment options 24 hours a day through evidence-based modules on anxiety, depression, body image, and stress. SilverCloud is designed to help students manage day-to-day stresses and improve resilience.
- Individual Counseling. University Health Services offers individual counseling conducted remotely over phone or video, with bilingual mental health providers available in Mandarin or Spanish. Counseling topics can be any issue that causes distress – emotional, psychological, interpersonal, or academic.
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The Dean of Students Office provides resources to students struggling with a variety of issues, and can be your go-to spot for assistance as a graduate student. To contact the Graduate and Professional Student Assistance Specialist Elaine Goetz-Berman directly, email egoetz2@wisc.edu.
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Please note: Some graduate students may be ineligible to hold graduate assistantship appointments. Be sure to check with your graduate program coordinator about your eligibility before applying.
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Applicants must have received their PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences between Jan 1, 2018 and Aug 15, 2021. To apply submit your CV, dissertation abstract, detailed cover letter (2-page max) to UW–Madison department chairs. The award stipend is for $60,000 plus health insurance and $5,000 in research/professional development funding in addition to a one-year position at select institutions in ACLS's Research University Consortium beginning August/September 2021.
The goal of the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission, by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories. The SCGSR program provides supplemental awards to outstanding US graduate students (US citizens or lawful permanent residents) to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory/facility in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories/facilities.
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