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September 28, 2021In this issue: Preparing for your future career, approaches for navigating conflict, and more.
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Tips for Grads: To be (on faculty) or not to be (on faculty)
…that really is the question, isn’t it? How many times have you been asked “So, do you want to teach?” when you’ve told people you’re in graduate school? First and foremost, whether the answer is yes or no, you are right. Going to graduate school doesn’t mean you’ve pigeonholed yourself into one career path. In fact, being here is opening you up to a world of skills and opportunities that you can take anywhere. If you do want to teach after graduating, that’s great too! You are in a fantastic position to feel out what kind of institution you want to work for and what kinds of things you want to teach.
No matter what you’re thinking of doing after finishing your graduate program, the Graduate School Office of Professional Development offers programming geared towards your interests and goals that they specifically group into these series:
- For people who are considering non-tenure track positions
- Find help marketing yourself, describing your graduate school experience in job applications, explore what you can do with your degree, and more
- In-person, virtual, and asynchronous options available
- For people who are considering faculty careers
- Find help with written application materials/statements, research and curriculum development, teaching skill development, and more
- In-person, virtual, and asynchronous options available
Both series are supplemented by UW’s subscription to Aurora, which offers on-demand video seminars from experts both in faculty positions and beyond the professoriate. Aurora is accessible and free to all graduate students with a UW NetID and password.
If you’re unsure which way you’re leaning, that’s perfectly okay! Take some time to scroll through the offerings of both programs. It’ll give you an idea of what people on both sides of the coin are thinking, doing, and talking about. Either way, this programming is designed to reflect the fact that the graduate school supports all career paths for students. So take a deep breath, you’re in the right place!
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.
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DiscoverPD is an innovative tool for UW–Madison graduate students to advance their academic and professional goals. Review the eight 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 Time.
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Communicating your research to a non-specialist audience is an essential career skill, whether you’re preparing for job interviews, networking at a conference, or just trying to explain to family and friends what you do with your time. This workshop, sponsored by the Writing Center and the Graduate School Office of Professional Development, will help graduate students from all disciplines to prepare an accessible, intriguing three-minute talk about their research. If you’re interested in learning how to craft a concise, general explanation of your research, or if you plan to participate in the 3MT® Three-Minute Thesis competition, this workshop is for you.
You’ve spent the last several years succeeding in academia, but now you’re ready to do something else! But how do you explain your academic career and its connection to your job beyond the professoriate? In this webinar, L. Maren Wood, PhD (Founder of Beyond the Professoriate) will help you craft a compelling career transition story that you can use on your LinkedIn profile, when networking, in cover letters, and in job interviews.
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Give and receive feedback with other fellowship applicants and Writing Center staff on the personal statement portion of the fellowship application using Google Docs.
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Do you have trouble starting difficult conversations? Does disagreement make you uncomfortable? Whether in a personal, professional, or academic context, navigating interpersonal differences is an essential skill for all graduate students. In this workshop, Dr. Shalini Nag will guide your exploration of the differences between disagreement and conflict, positive vs. negative conflict, and communication styles. In addition, Dr. Nag will share approaches and conversational tools so you can navigate interpersonal differences with confidence. In addition, registered participants will have the opportunity to anonymously submit their own experiences and examples of conflict or difficult conversations to practice on during the workshop.
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Humanities Without Walls summer workshop
June 17 – July 1, 2022 | Applications due to the Center for the Humanities by Nov 1
Doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences invited to apply
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Fund it Forward Video Challenge
Submissions due by Oct 18
UW–Madison students are invited to submit 60-90 second videos highlighting their research and the importance of federal support for fundamental research. Participants will be evaluated based on their messaging and communication, creativity, and video and editing quality, with winners receiving cash prizes.
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- Python Intermediate
- Excel 2
- NVivo Software Basics
- CSS 1
- Stata Workshop: Regression Models and Diagnostics
- Data Wrangling in Stata
- R Workshop: Loops and Writing Functions
- Creating Shiny Apps
- Data Wrangling in R
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Special Events & Symposia
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UW Innovate Week
Monday through Friday, Oct 4 – 8
In-person and virtual events available. Visit the website for a full event list and details
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Nominations for Campus-Wide TA Awards due Nov 8
UW–Madison employs master’s and doctoral teaching assistants across a wide range of disciplines, and their contributions in the classroom, lab, studio, and field are essential to the University's educational mission. In order to recognize excellence on the part of campus TAs, the Graduate School, with administrative and financial assistance from the College of Letters & Science, sponsors six categories of awards for teaching assistants across the UW–Madison campus. These awards are open to all UW–Madison TAs enrolled in master’s and doctoral programs. Department may nominate up to three TAs per year. Contact your DGS or graduate program coordinator if you are interested in being nominated. Read more about the TA awards.
Enrollment deadlines- Friday, October 1: Deadline for students to drop a Fall term course and receive 50% tuition adjustment.
Deadline for dropping a class permanently moved to later in the semester
The deadline for dropping a class without the approval of your academic dean has been permanently moved to a later date each semester. The permanent change reflects similar temporary extensions made in spring 2020, fall 2020, and spring 2021.
This semester the deadline is Friday, November 26, 2021 and will occur during the 12th week of classes moving forward. The deadline to withdraw from the university remains the same, December 15, 2021.
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Upcoming flu shot clinics
University Health Services offers free flu shots to all students and employees. Upcoming flu shot clinics:
- Wednesday, Sept 29 | Grainger Hall, Room Executive Dining Room | 6 am - noon
- Thursday, Sept 30 | Pyle Center, Lower Level | 8:30 am - noon, and 1 - 4:30 pm
- Friday, Oct 1 | Pyle Center, Lower Level | 8:30 am - noon, and 1 - 4:30 pm
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Protect yourself and others from COVID-19
All students, employees, and visitors to campus are required to wear masks when inside campus buildings, unless working alone inside an office or lab with the door closed or while actively eating and drinking. Employees and students who have not shared proof of COVID-19 vaccination with UHS are required to test weekly on campus. University Health Services continues to offer free COVID-19 vaccines to all students and employees. For more information, see the COVID-19 Response 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.
- UHS 24-hour Crisis Services. On-call crisis counselors can help address your most pressing concerns, address your safety, and help you connect with follow-up service needs. It’s available every day, including weekends, holidays, and semester breaks. Call the UHS crisis line at 608-265-5600. For situations that are immediately life-threatening, call 911.
- Group Counseling for Graduate Students. University Health Services offers support/theme groups for graduate students, including groups for all graduate students, dissertators, graduate women, and graduate students of color. Support groups are a great way to share experiences around the challenges of grad school with other grad students.
- 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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| Graduate Student Support and Assistance
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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The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies announces a new LGBTQ+ Dissertation Fellowship available to any dissertator, from any department or program at UW-Madison, completing a dissertation on a topic in LGBTQ+ studies. The fellowship offers a 12-month stipend in the amount of $28,000 and is made possible by a generous gift from David A. Kaplan and Glenn A. Ostergaard, the Brautigam/Kaplan Foundation.
Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. Applicants should identify how their projects, as well as their future academic and career goals, will contribute to U.S. national security, broadly defined. The National Security Education Program draws on a broad definition of national security, recognizing that the scope of national security has expanded to include not only the traditional concerns of protecting and promoting American well-being, but also the challenges of global society, including sustainable development, environmental degradation, global disease and hunger, population growth and migration, and economic competitiveness. There will be an in-person information session on October 20, 2021 at 3 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall with Jeff Cary, outreach & recruitment manager for the Boren Awards.
Predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships are awarded in a national competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation. Through its program of fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Ford Foundation Fellowships are awarded to Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement (such as grade point average, class rank, honors or other designations); and Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level in the U.S.
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