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.
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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.
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Set Your Goals
Establishing goals effectively will enable you to complete your degree on time and make the most of your graduate studies. Being intentional about your goals will keep you on track academically and help ensure you acquire the skills and experiences you need to meet them.
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Manage Your Career
Engaging in purposeful professional development and career planning are important parts of the doctoral and postdoctoral experience and essential to building a fulfilling career across one's lifetime. From day one, it's valuable for all doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars to self-reflect on values and interests, establish connections with academic and professional mentors, and identify meaningful career pathways, as well as the requisite skills and experiences that pave the way for a fruitful job search.
Become An Expert
Building expertise is a hallmark of graduate education. What expertise do you need to be successful in your career? You may be part of a team, conduct your own research, develop ethical standards, build a professional community, all enroute to fostering your continued growth and development.
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January 2021 Graduate School Symposium
GradTerp Forum
About GradTerp Forum
The Graduate School is proud to announce the launch of GradTerp Forum: A Blog on the Research, Scholarship, and Practice of the graduate community at Maryland. The mission of the blog is:
UMD IRT Graduate Student Community
Our History
The Graduate School at University of Maryland has participated in the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) Consortium of Colleges & Universities for over 15 years and has attracted IRT students to graduate programs at UMD since 1992. The Office of Graduate Recruitment and Community (OGRC) not only recruits talented IRT students to graduate programs at UMD, but also provides monthly sessions especially designed for IRT graduate students to ensure their success once they are her