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June 7, 2022In this issue: Mini-series in career development, campus job listings, and more.
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Tips for Grads: Managing your summer budget
Being able to manage a budget is an essential skill, whether it’s for a place of employment, an organization you volunteer with, or your own. Summers can be especially difficult for budgeting as a graduate student, particularly if you have an assistantship or funding that is not year-round. Here are some tips to keep in mind to think about this summer, and all year long:
- Use your resources: Take advantage of GradReady, a free financial wellness tool available to UW students through the Office of Student Financial Aid. In addition to being a resource for planning out the repayment of student loans, GradReady also offers modules and tips for budgeting, building credit, and financial planning and goal-setting.
- Keep track: Keep track of what other people owe you! Five dollars here, half the price of that box of cereal there. Keeping count of who owes what is certainly possible on paper or in your phone’s notes, but why leave the math for future you to deal with? Apps like Splitwise help you keep track of how much you and your roommate owe each other or how much it comes out to if you and two friends split a bill, without any money needing to change hands until you’re ready to settle up.
- Know that you have a safety net: Even the best-laid plans can fall victim to unexpected roadblocks. Don’t forget that as a UW–Madison graduate student, you are able to apply for crisis loans through the Dean of Students office. An unexpected emergency or sudden life change is hard to budget for, so know that help is out there!
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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Mini-Series in Career Development: Presented by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development
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Aurora is a professional development e-learning platform developed by Beyond the Professoriate. Whether you are interested in a tenure-track job or in careers outside academia, you can use Aurora to discover your career options as a PhD. Explore career pathways based on your interests and values, and plot your next steps in your academic or non-academic job search. This workshop serves as an introduction to Aurora to encourage graduate students to make the most of this service. This 50-minute workshop will involve hands-on, small group explorations of Aurora’s resources for both academic and non-academic job searches. You will leave with concrete next steps to take in your job search. This workshop will be presented by Khine Su, doctoral candidate in History and Project Assistant in the Graduate School.
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In a tight and unpredictable academic job market, graduate students in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly looking outside academia for employment opportunities and meaningful careers that align with their values. ImaginePhD can help graduate students in these fields identify potential careers tracks. It offers opportunities to develop and articulate transferrable skills, and provides resources to support students in their job searches, both in and outside the academy. This workshop serves as an introduction to ImaginePhD so graduate students can make the most of this service. Participants will complete an interest assessment and a skills assessment, identify potential job families for future careers, learn how to navigate ImaginePhD’s resources, and begin considering their immediate, short-term, and long-term career goals.
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Creating an individual development plan (IDP) encourages you to think about what you need to do next – and over the next few years – so that you achieve your goals. We will discuss how to define achievable goals, identify resources, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining your plans. Participants will begin to create a personalized plan that takes into account career interests and addresses the development of knowledge and skills for professional growth. This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development and the Delta Program.
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Additional Upcoming Professional Development Events:
Begin your journey to becoming an inclusive and evidence-based STEM instructor! Join this 7-week course to get an overview of effective college teaching strategies, and explore how to apply them with a local learning community.
Have you been putting off your writing by promising yourself that summer is when you'll get it done? Are you finding yourself continuing to procrastinate and avoid your writing even though summer has arrived? In this webinar you will learn how to identify what's holding you back from writing and completing your article, dissertation, etc, types of writing funk and how to move around them, and how to create the types of community you need to write! Must make a free NCFDD account to register.
A PhD can set you up for an academic career, but what else can you do with your PhD? How can you identify other careers that align with your skills, values, and interests? In this webinar, L. Maren Wood, PhD (Founder, Beyond the Professoriate) will talk about what employers value about your graduate education and training, and how to identify career opportunities where you’ll thrive.
Over the past five years, the Beyond Prof team has interviewed hundreds of PhDs about how to make a successful career transition. Through this research, we’ve learned what makes, and breaks, a non-academic job search. In this webinar, the Beyond Prof Team will share with you these results. After attending this webinar, you’ll be able to identify common mistakes PhDs make when applying for nonacademic jobs, apply proven strategies so that you can avoid making these mistakes, and identify resources in Aurora that can help you in your job search.
Faculty have been sharing experiences of burnout over the last two years, but this experience is not only confined to the COVID period. Many characteristics of the faculty role can contribute to feelings of burnout. This webinar will focus on some of the contributors to burnout in a faculty role and concrete steps that faculty can take to continue to find energy, satisfaction, and joy in their work.
How do you engage and promote learning successfully in large enrollment courses (>100 students)? Join Delta’s panel on active learning to hear tips, tricks, and strategies from experienced instructors.
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Teaching
Explore more teaching-related professional development events from the Delta Program.
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- Introduction to Web Scraping with R
- Regression Review with R
- Introduction to Python for Data Analysis
- Data Wrangling in Python
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Special Events & Symposia
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Event is currently at capacity; waitlist available.
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Recruitment of Doctoral Students for New SED Question TestingThe National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation is looking for doctoral students to participate in a research study that evaluates potential new demographic questions for the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED). All currently enrolled doctoral students are invited to complete a screener survey to help determine your eligibility for the study. If selected to participate in the 60-minute study, you will receive $40 as a token of appreciation for your time. The study will be conducted virtually through videoconferencing between May and July 2022. For more information about the study, please email sed@rti.org.
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Monitor yourself for symptoms of COVID-19
It remains important to monitor yourself daily for COVID-19 symptoms. If you develop symptoms, stay home and get tested. At-home antigen tests are available for pickup at no cost on campus and PCR tests are available by appointment in MyUHS.
UHS services available remotely
University 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 Students
According 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.
- YOU@WISC. This portal has tools and information to help you be well, with modules on stress management, self-care, social support, suicidal thoughts, mindfulness, academic wellness, and more.
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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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| Hostile and Intimidating Behavior
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is committed to preventing hostile and intimidating behavior (HIB) and will take prompt and appropriate corrective action whenever it learns that it has occurred. If you have experienced HIB, there are resources to help and staff available to talk.
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Please note: Graduate students enrolled in service-based pricing programs, such as online and accelerated programs, are ineligible to receive tuition remission. Be sure to check with your graduate program coordinator and read your admission and appointment letters carefully to understand your benefits eligibility.
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Harbor enjoys camping alongside his human, Santina Snow (Cancer Biology PhD Program). Here he is resting up before their next hike. Harbor encourages you to explore the many parks and nature reserves Wisconsin has to offer this summer. Be sure to bring plenty of treats in case you see him on the trails!
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