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Graduate Resource Center

OGA maintains a collection of articles on graduate student life, both in and out of the classroom. Below are featured articles available for download. If you are interested in articles about a specific topic not shown below, contact OGA for additional offerings.

Family/Kids

  • An Immodest Proposal: Have Children in Graduate School
  • Baby, Baby, Baby
  • Balancing Act: When to Procreate
  • Do Babies Matter?
  • Expecting on the Tenure Track
  • Family Time: Why Some Women Quit Their Coveted Tenure-Track Jobs
  • Giving Birth in Graduate School
  • How Babies Alter Careers for Academics
  • It's Babysitters Galore!
  • Newly Hired and Pregnant
  • Papers and Pampers
  • Women Who Have Children Early in Careers Hurt Their Chances to Achieve Tenure
  • Singing the Baby Blues
Proposal Writing and Funding Sources
  • Scholarly Pursuits
  • Debunking Some Myths about Grant Writing
  • Getting Great Letters of Recommendation
  • How to Win a Graduate Fellowship
  • Words Worth Their Weight in Cash

Graduate School

  • Should You Finish
  • Professional Development Timeline
  • Baby Steps on Speeding up the PhD
  • A Ph.D. and a Failure
The Student/Adviser Relationship
  • Should I Trust Him?

Dissertation

  • Place and Space
Academic Employment
  • The Academic Pyramid Club
  • My Imperfect Search
  • Chicago Area Colleges and Universities

Additional Resources:

Graduate Resource Manual

NSIT Graduate Student Manual

Tax Information for Students

Graduate Student Teaching Resource Network

National Association of Graduate and Professional Students

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