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| Week of February 21, 2017
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Tips for Grads: Communication
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If you’re planning to pursue a job in academia, there is a good chance you will be asked by the hiring committees to reflect on your definition of diversity and how your work and career creates or promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace and community. Richard Utz, chair of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at George Institute of Technology, provides some guiding advice about navigating this increasingly common question: - Avoid platitudes. Instead of providing a canned answer, reflect on your own experiences and developing an answer only you can offer.
- Be prepared to discuss your experience. As with other parts of your professional life, you’ll want to prepare an answer that draws on concrete examples from your time in graduate school or elsewhere.
- If you don’t have personal examples, look to your supervisors and colleagues for examples of how people in your field have furthered diversity. If you don’t have models in your program, consult the UW-Madison’s Diversity Inventory Program, which centralizes information about activities to diversity, inclusion, and climate.
When considering the diversity question, think through it the way you would other questions: using your own career and experiences as the foundation upon which your answer rests.
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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 Events
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"The Professor Is In" Karen Kelsky visits our campus to demystify the confusing and peculiar job market process for graduate students. Kelsky illuminates the conditions of the American tenure track job market, and offers advice about how to strategize a career plan and tailor your record and application materials to maximize your chances of success, with an eye to both academic and non-academic jobs.
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| Ph.D. graduates have a wide range of careers open to them in government, the non-profit sector, and private industry, as well as higher education. Wisconsin alumni exemplify the graduate school's long and proud tradition of research, teaching, public service, and applied work in their careers. You're invited to meet with Sociology and Community and Environmental Sociology alumni who chose careers beyond the tenure track. They'll speak about their post-graduation professional paths, shed light on the way they employ their training as social scientists outside of the academy, and discuss what they find engaging and rewarding about their work. Guest Speakers: Zachary Baumgart, Ph.D., Research Analyst, Wisconsin Department of Corrections; Jeffrey Hayes, Ph.D., Program Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research; Sarah Lloyd, Ph.D., Special Projects Coordinator, Wisconsin Farmers Union; Andrea Robles, Ph.D., Research and Evaluation Manager, Corporation for National and Community Service. Moderated by: Professor Myra Marx Ferree, UW-Madison Department of Sociology. Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, Office of Postdoctoral Studies, and the Graduate School Office of Professional Development.
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History Department PhD graduates as well as PhDs in many disciplines are very competitive for positions at independent college-preparatory schools. Compared with the tenure-track job market, applicants can be more geographically selective and relocate from one high school to another more easily. These institutions allow teachers a great deal of curricular and pedagogical autonomy, the opportunity to build close relationships with students and pursue extracurricular interests--such as, coaching or the performing arts--and unrestricted summer breaks to use to continue academic research or augment one’s income. Come hear from Wisconsin History PhD alums who have followed this path describe their work and offer tips for successful applications.
Guest Speakers: Ellen Baker, PhD, Upper School History and Integrated Liberal Studies Teacher, Riverdale Country School; Robert Gross, PhD, Upper School History Teacher, Sidwell Friends School; John Hogue, PhD, Faculty in Social Sciences, Bard High School Early College; Stephen Kolman, PhD, Head of Upper School, Trinity School; Eric O'Connor, PhD, Interim History Teacher, Sidwell Friends School. Moderated by: Professor Charles Kim, UW-Madison Department of History.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Office of Postdoctoral Studies and the Graduate School Office of Professional Development.
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| Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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| Improving Style
Tuesday, February 21 | 3:30 - 5:00 pm (four-week workshop)
6176 Helen C. White | Communication
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| Illustrator 1
Tuesday, February 21 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People Excel 1
Wednesday, February 22 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
DesignLab, 2257 College Library | Managing Projects and People LaTeX
Wednesday, March 1 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
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For more technology courses from Software Training for Students (STS) click here.
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Special Events & Conferences
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Graduate Student Support Group for survivors of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault and stalking begins on Feb. 24
This support group is tailored to address the needs of creating community and working toward healing for survivors of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. The group will be meeting Fridays from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm, starting on February 24th until April 21st in the 8th Floor Lobby Conference Room at 333 East Campus Mall.
Cool Science Image Contest accepting submissions up to Mar. 3
UW-Madison faculty, staff and students are invited to apply as individuals or teams to the Cool Science Image Contest. Images can depict an object or phenomenon from any disciplines, and any method of producing an image is welcomed (e.g. microscopy, animations, photography, schematics, etc.). Learn more and apply before the March 3 deadline. Application for May 2017 Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camps due Mar. 3
The UW-Madison Graduate School and the UW-Madison Writing Center are pleased to sponsor two Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camps between May 15-19 and May 22-26, 2017. Acceptance in the program is competitive, and participation is limited to two camps of 20 dissertators. Facilitated by senior staff from the Writing Center, this camp offers a structured opportunity for dissertators to make significant progress on their dissertations by drafting a substantial amount of writing. The deadline is Friday, March 3. More information about the camps and a link to the application can be found at the Graduate School's website.
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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 Center for the Humanities will award up to five public humanities fellowships to advanced graduate students at UW-Madison Recipients of this fellowship will be paired with an established cultural institution in Madison for a nine-month (academic year) residency. These residencies will give fellows the opportunity to use their humanities experience and expertise to develop new programs, expand existing ones, and translate their academic skills into the public sphere.
The Brazil Initiative of the International Division in collaboration with the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program sponsors the Joaquim Nabuco Award, given annually to the two best essays on Brazil (any field) by a degree-seeking University of Wisconsin-Madison student (one graduate and one undergraduate student). The essay may be written in English or Portuguese and should have at least 15 double-spaced pages. The prize is a lump-sum cash award of $2,000.
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