Become a GradLife P2P Mentor
GradLife-P2P is the Graduate College’s interdisciplinary peer mentor matching program. First-year PhDs are matched with a Peer Mentor (second year or later). Mentors receive basic (2-hour) training and resources to support mentees. The Grad P2P community receives access to select networking events and opportunities.
- Interdisciplinary peer conversations and five group gatherings.
- Connecting around grad life, campus resources, opportunities, and more.
- Facilitating connections through shared identities and interests
- In-person and Zoom connections
- Valuing open talk and sharing about grad experiences
Registration will be open on a first-come-first-serve basis until spots fill up. If you have any questions about registration, please contact grad-success@uiowa.edu.
Mentors
Please fill out this application to participate as a mentor. This short form will help us learn more about you and match you with mentee(s). Please note that we cannot guarantee a match based on your selected criteria, but we will do our best to find a good fit.
Mentees
Please fill out this application to participate as a mentee. This short form will help us learn more about you and match you with mentee(s). Please note that we cannot guarantee a match based on your selected criteria, but we will do our best to find a good fit.
Managing the Market Summer Collaborative
The Grad Success Center is offering a seven-week, peer-led academic jobs support collaborative to help graduate students and postdocs prepare for finding and applying for academic jobs. Students interested in participating and/or serving as a co-leader should learn more and apply when applications open in early June.
Transforming Your Research Into Teaching Workshop Series
This is a 7-session workshop series designed to expose you to the basic elements of course design. Over the course of this workshop, you will design a course based on your current area of research interest. This workshop series is open to MFAs, PhDs, and Post-docs from any academic discipline. We will work slowly, one aspect of the course at a time, to allow you to fully develop your ideas and not detract unnecessarily from your research goals. At the end of the workshop you will present your course to the group and design a full course syllabus.
Course Benefits:
- Design a syllabus for a unique and specific course you can teach – important for going on the academic job market
- Learn and practice effective teaching strategies
- Learn and implement course design fundamentals
- Receive CIRTL Associate Level certificate
Course Logistics:
- This workshop uses the “flipped course” format. Each week you will watch a series of videos to learn about effective teaching and course design. Then you will attend a 1 hour workshop each week to discuss what you have learned, practice techniques, and give and receive feedback on your classmates project. Including class time expect to spend about 3 hours per week on this course.
- The course runs on Tuesdays from 12:00-1:00 PM CT, starting June 13th through July 25th. Attendance at all seminar sessions is highly recommended.
- At several points in the course you will have the opportunity to virtually meet and work with graduate students and post-docs from other research universities who are also taking this course.
CLAS PhD Careers Boot Camp
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will host their PhD Careers Boot Camp on August 10th and 11th. This is a two-day professional development event for graduate students and postdocs providing first-person career advice from professionals in diverse fields, opportunities for networking and career development, and lunch.
Inspired by a program at University College Cork, this event will offer grad students and postdocs the opportunity to explore multiple career pathways and prepare for the next step in their professional lives.
Registration will open by the start of June. Please check back for more details as they become available.
Teaching-As-Research (TAR)
Dates Tuesday 6/6 through Tuesday 7/18 (no session week of July 4th) at 3:00-4:30 on Zoom
A TAR project is an opportunity to use your disciplinary research skills to develop a research question relating to teaching and propose a project that would allow you to investigate this question with a class you are teaching or a TA for, or a data set available through your department or other university offices or departments. These projects can be small or large scale and can help you develop your reflective teaching skills. A project also is a great talking point on a resume or CV and in a job interview. If you are close to graduating and will not be able to implement a project, the work of designing and proposing a project is by itself a worthwhile endeavor.
Examples of Recent Projects:
- Assessing Workshop Models in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Classroom
- Which Group Work Methods Lead to Better Participation in the Classroom?
- The Efficacy of Open-Ended Questions for the College Classroom
Participants need to attend all sessions. Everyone who attends all sessions and submits a proposal that is accepted will receive a $250 award. Those that implement the project in a future semester will receive an additional $250 and the CIRTL Practitioner certificate. If you are interested in joining the cohort, please submit an application as soon as possible.
Prerequisites: Graduate students and post-docs from any academic discipline who have taken a graduate-level teaching-related course (at UI or elsewhere) or 5 teaching-related workshops (from the Center for Teaching, your department, the Graduate College, another academic department, etc.) are eligible to participate. Previous experience as a TA or instructor is also helpful. If you have questions about whether a course or workshops you have taken fit, please email Lisa Kelly (lisa-kelly@uiowa.edu) with information about the course or workshops.
3MT Info Session
Register to join us for the 2023 3MT Information session on August 9th at 1:00pm.