Skip to main content

Developing Your Strengths: StrengthsFinder for Graduate Students

Monday, August 15, 2016

Our talents and strengths can be applied in many areas, including learning, academics, leadership, service, and careers. The StrengthsFinder assessment will allow you to identify your greatest talents, gain insight into how to develop and enhance your strengths, and learn … Read more

Resiliency, Imposter Syndrome, and Learning Optimism

Monday, July 25, 2016

NEW for 2016!  As graduate students, it’s critical to learn how to deal with challenges and set-backs to progress and advance personally and professionally. Participants will learn evidence-based strategies to develop a growth mindset, reduce ANTs, minimize imposter fears, increase … Read more

Honor System: Q&A for TAs

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Please join us for a question and answer session regarding the Honor System. We will spend time on the academic honesty portions of the Instrument and talk about the role of the Teaching Assistant within the undergraduate classroom as well as graduate student … Read more

Financial Literacy: Taxes and Savings

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

What do taxes and savings have to do with each other? If you don’t know that is why you should take this seminar. We will discuss a few taxes and the entities that collect your money (hint: it is not … Read more

Assertiveness, Active Listening, and Change Management

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Participants will learn to be more effective in clarifying expectations, handling conflict, and realizing the fundamentals of tension management in their professional roles. Participants will gain practical insights and learn essential concepts for building and maintaining high team performance. Each … Read more

MBTI for Graduate Students

Monday, November 23, 2015

Learn how your personality preferences can play a role in your career decision making and approach to leadership. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a model for determining your preferences, Amy Blackburn and Greg Bocchino will lead you through exercises … Read more

Other Pathways: Networking with Alternative Academics

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Are you a graduate student who is interested in considering a variety of career options? Alt-ac refers to alternative academic careers, positions within or around the academy but outside the ranks of the tenure-track teaching faculty that are filled by … Read more