graduate students
Tim’s Tips: Saying No
Saying No May 7, 2013 – 9:55pm By Stephanie Hedge Inside Higher Education Dr. Stephanie Hedge is a permanent author at GradHacker and was, until recently, a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University. You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge. I am really bad at saying no. When someone [...]
Tim’s Tips: Does Blanket ‘Don’t Go to Graduate School!’ Advice Ignore Race and Reality?
April 15, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education Does Blanket ‘Don’t Go to Graduate School!’ Advice Ignore Race and Reality? By Tressie McMillan Cottom When I decided to return to graduate school, I was about as devoid of prestige as one can be. I was old; I was from a no-name undergraduate university (worse, maybe, [...]
Tim’s Tips: Study Finds Harassment of Anthropology Grad Students in Field
Study Finds Harassment of Anthropology Grad Students in Field Inside Higher Education April 15, 2013 – 3:00am A new study has found widespread abuse — psychological, physical and sexual — of graduate students in biological anthropology when they work in the field. Women are much more likely to report abuse than are men, and those [...]
Tim’s Tips: Finding Greater Community: Social Media For Grads of Color
Finding Greater Community: Social Media For Grads of Color Inside Higher Education March 28, 2013 – 8:15pm By Carleen Carey Carleen Carey is PhD candidate in Teacher Education at Michigan State University whose research explores how African American adolescents make meaning and construct identities through reading engagement in informal education spaces. You can follow her [...]
Tim’s Tips: 5 Great Reads for Grad Students
5 Great Reads for Grad Students Inside Higher Education October 28, 2012 – 7:39pm By Kaitlin Gallagher Kaitlin Gallagher is a PhD Candidate specializing in Biomechanics at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a permanent author for GradHacker. You can follow her on twitter at @KtlnG. In March I [...]
Tim’s Tips: Embracing Criticism
Embracing Criticism Inside Higher Education January 22, 2012 – 9:35pm By GradHacker This GradHacker post was written by Andrea Zellner, Michigan State University PhD candidate in Ed Psych/Ed Tech, @andreazellner I am going to go ahead and blame the 1980s. Namely, the educational push in those days to “boost children’s self-esteem.” I am going out on a [...]
Tim’s Tips: Getting Involved: Tales from an Introverted Grad Student
Getting Involved: Tales from an Introverted Grad Student Inside Higher Education January 15, 2012 – 5:12pm By GradHacker This is a guest post by Kaitlin Gallagher, a PhD student in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo. As an undergrad I didn’t get involved in extracurricular student societies for two reasons. The first was that I felt [...]
