Health Insurance Reimbursement Requests
Health Insurance Reimbursement Requests for Full-Time Fellows
All full-time enrolled graduate students are required to have health insurance. Students holding full time fellowships may be eligible to request reimbursement up to $1,500 for the cost of insurance. For more information about this policy and health insurance options available for students, please go to gradschool.umd.edu/health-insurance.
Doctoral Career Planning and Exploration Tools/IDPs
Archive | 2021-2022 Workshops
Alumni News
Doctoral Careers Advisory Board
Established the summer of 2020, the Doctoral Careers Advisory Board (DCAB) provides strategic advice and feedback on supporting diverse doctoral career paths at the University of Maryland. Comprised of doctoral and postdoctoral alumni, current doctoral students and postdocs, board members commit to two years of service.
Doctoral Alumni Career Services
The University of Maryland is committed to assisting its doctoral alumni with their career development after graduation. Services are provided through the Alumni Association in collaboration with the network of career services offices on campus. In addition to the Alumni Association, the Schools of Engineering, Business and Public Policy provide services to doctoral alumni through their career services offices.
Cultural and Linguistic Awareness
Fellows at the Center for Writing & Oral Communication benefit from having some knowledge of different cultures and linguistic perspectives to prepare themselves for working with international writers. In adjusting to writing in English, particularly academic English, students from various language groups may face a set of writing challenges related to their o
January 2022: Invest in Your Success!
Engage, Thrive, and Connect
Creating a strong support network will help you thrive in graduate school. Acquiring intercultural fluency and engaging with diverse communities is a first step! While in graduate school, you can also incorporate healthy habits and balance in all facets of your life--intellectual, financial, health, environmental, spiritual, emotional, physical, and social.
Examples of how to flourish on this pathway:
Communicate and Lead
Leading and communicating are critical if you want to make an impact in your field. Becoming an effective writer, speaker, teacher, advocate, mentor, and leader will enable you to take your expertise beyond the university.
Examples of ways to travel this pathway: