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
- 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
Dissertation
Academic Employment
Additional Resources:
Graduate Resource Manual