I’d like to welcome you to the Forty Acres, whether you’re a new student arriving to campus for the first time or a returning student continuing your journey. As graduate students, you are part of a renowned community of scholars, artists and practitioners who make vital contributions to society across all sectors.
The Graduate School is here to help you succeed during and after your graduate studies. Our office ensures the quality of graduate programs across campus, provides funding and other resources for students and serves as an advocate at the university and beyond for graduate students.
Toward this end, I wanted to make you aware of the following resources that are available to all graduate students:
- NameCoach is a tool available in Canvas that helps instructors correctly pronounce the names of their students. Graduate students can record the pronunciation of their names by navigating to any Canvas course and selecting NameCoach. (Note: the course instructor must activate NameCoach for students to record their names.) More instructions are available at UT ServiceNow. (After logging in, type NameCoach in the “How can we help?” search box.)
- The University Writing Center (UWC) provides a range of free programming to support graduate students, including individual in-person and online consultations. Their trained graduate student consultants can provide feedback on any project at any stage of your writing process.
- Texas Career Engagement (TCE) partners with departments across campus to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in their career and professional development. From career advising to workshops, you can use this professional support service from the first day of class.
- The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers many specialized programs and services for graduate students, including the Teaching Preparation Series, individual consultations on drafting teaching statements and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) statements and online workshops on a variety of teaching topics.
- Student Activities compiles a list of the 1,300 student organizations on campus, many of which are devoted to graduate students. Additionally, the Recreational Sports division provides many sports and wellness resources, including intramural sport leagues.
- Overleaf Professional is a collaborative authoring tool that makes it easier to use LaTeX, the typesetting system for technical and scientific documentation. Overleaf Professional is available free of charge and can help with the publication of scientific documents in scholarly journals and for reports, theses and dissertations.
I wish you an exciting, productive semester and encourage you to stay up to date on graduate student events and resources by following the Graduate School on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Sincerely,
