Grad School: The Secret Syllabus

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Absolute Beginners

Working with Your Advisor

Jumpstarting Your Research

Coursework

Orals and Comps

Emotional and Mental Health

Your First TAship

  • Creating a Section Syllabus ⏩
  • Working with Your TA Course Faculty ⏩
  • Your First Course Evaluation ⏩
  • Paying the Price for a Crappy Prof: What to Do with Bad Evaluations ⏩
  • Unionization ⏩

Social Media for Grad Students

The Second Year

Networking and Relationships

  • Having a Child in Grad School ⏩
  • Dating in Grad School ⏩
  • A Death in the Family ⏩
  • Physical Fitness ⏩
  • Mental Health Redux ⏩
  • How (and Why) to Avoid Cliques ⏩
  • Meet a 6th Year and Ask Advice ⏩
  • Activism, On and Beyond Campus ⏩

Conferences & Writing Groups

Fellowships and Grants

The Dissertation

  • The Contours of a Dissertation? ⏩
  • Time to Completion ⏩
  • Switching Dissertation Topics ⏩

Filing and Defending


Tenure: The Secret Syllabus

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Getting Published

Teaching

Mental Health

The Minefield of Informality

Fellowships and Grants

  • Sabbatical Grants ⏩
  • Multi-Year Grants ⏩
  • Conference Grants ⏩
  • Small Grants ⏩
  • “Mid-Career” Grants and Fellowships: When’s the Earliest You Can Apply? ⏩
  • Residential Fellowships ⏩

Promoting Your Research

Advising Students

  • Young Professor, Older Graduate Student: The Complex Dynamics of PhD Advising ⏩
  • Don’t Give No Advice: The Basics of Good Mentorship ⏩
  • Mentoring Students is the Hardest Job You’ll Ever Have ⏩
  • How to Help Your Students Find Their Thesis and Dissertation Questions ⏩

Reappointment

  • What is Reappointment Review? ⏩
  • Getting (and Interpreting) Feedback ⏩
  • Preparing Your Reappointment File ⏩

Sabbatical

Work-Life Balance

Department Meetings

Tenure

Applying for Jobs

Money

  • Honoraria: How Much to Expect for Giving an Invited Talk ⏩
  • Reviewing Articles and Manuscripts: How Much Will You Get Paid ⏩
  • Other Ways to Make Money on Campus ⏩

Conferences

Climbing the Ladder

Your Second Book or Major Project

Tenure…. Now What?