Students With Disabilities

There are several available resources for graduate students with disabilities.

Accommodations

Students who are seeking an accommodation for academic reasons, assistantship support, lab area needs or internship should contact Accessibility Disability Services (ADS).

Graduate Program Mentoring Excellence Award

The Graduate Program Mentoring Excellence Award recognizes graduate programs that make mentoring a core program responsibility by building a culture of high-quality, inclusive, and accountable mentoring. We seek to spotlight programs that use evidence-based, equitable, responsive, and sustainable mentoring practices, and that use measurable outcomes to support graduate students’ success and belonging, while preparing them for diverse career pathways. This honor comes with a $1,000 award to the department to support mentoring activities.

A2i Industry Insights (Oct. 2023)

Accelerate to Industry (A2i) Industry Insights module focuses on preparing graduate students and Postdocs for careers in the private sector (also commonly referred to as "business"), non-profit, and government. While this module takes its focus from its name, a comprehensive look at topics related to the job search is covered in this series through talks by industry experts and workshops that cover key competencies topics.

Doctoral Career Design Course (Sep. 2023)

The Doctoral Career Design Course offers current doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars the opportunity to participate in intentional career exploration and decision-making. Given the changing career landscape, early engagement in the career planning process will better prepare doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars to pursue meaningful career pathways after graduate school or postdoctoral training.

International PhD Career Readiness Series (Nov. 2023)

The International PhD Career Readiness Series is intentionally designed to focus on providing strategies of career preparation for international PhD candidates and Postdocs in the United States, including best practices on navigating PhD career landscape and U.S. workplace culture, job search process, and how to prepare for the immigration portfolio.

Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2023

Academic Job Document Retreat (Aug. 2023)

In August and September 2023, the Graduate School and TLTC will provide those interested in going on the academic job market this year with three opportunities to work on documents and an application package, including the virtual Academic Job Market Boot Camp, local UMD teaching philosophy workshop and faculty panel, and two office hour blocks for you to receive feedback.

My mentor or advisor is engaging in unethical behavior. (research misconduct, etc.)

1. University of Maryland Policy and Procedures Concerning Scholarly Misconduct.
2. Melissa Thompson, Research Integrity Officer
   1. Email: melissa@umd.edu
   2. Phone: 301-405-0540
3. Contact info for department chairs and school leadership
   1. DGS Contact Intervention
   2. Department or Ch

My mentor or advisor is not fulfilling their mentoring responsibilities.

1. UMD’s Standards for Mentorship
2. Advisor Policy
3. Statement of Expectations for GAs and Supervisors
4. Seeking help from my department or school.
   1. DGS Contact Intervention
   2. Department or Chair Intervention
   3. Dean Intervention&

I'm having a disagreement with my mentor/advisor, student,colleague in my lab, research group, project team, etc. and need help resolving it.

1. Tips for Approaching an Informal Conflict Resolution Discussion
2. Ombuds Office
   1. Contact the Graduate Ombudsman: grad-ombuds@umd.edu
3. I’ve already tried, or I am not comfortable with, an informal discussion and need my department or school to intervene.
   1. DGS Contact Intervention
   2. D