By Eric Stoller. We can all probably agree that higher education shouldn't be afraid of Snapchat. However, that doesn't make it an easy platform for higher education marketing and communications teams. Read more...
What's the UX at Your Campus
By Eric Stoller. There are so many things that students can do via the web services at your university. Students can access class scheduling, financial aid information, academic advising appointments, degree progress/requirements, library resources, etc. Read more...
4 Tropes of the Digital Pessimist
By Eric Stoller. Statements like these are quite common. Usually, they are shared in rooms filled with educators, by educators who are trying to place rhetorical roadblocks in the way of critical thinking about social media. Read more...
A Qualifying Exam Proposal Checklist
By Megan Poorman. To give some background, in my biomedical engineering department the QUAL is the thesis proposal and preliminary exam combined. Read more...
Customizing Mental Health Information and Services for Graduate Students
By Kathleen Moore. Is there a graduate student mental health crisis in universities? On the GradHacker blog, several authors address graduate students’ mental health, including topics such as self-care, anxiety, and trauma. Read more...
Talk to Your Union!
By Alyssa. Why you should utilize this campus resource during grad school. Read more...
Dear International Students: This is Not Normal
By Florianne Jimenez. A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on how to negotiate being an international student caught between nations. Back then, I was only thinking about distance and adjustment, and how to think of our personal and professional lives transnationally. Read more...
To Whom It May Concern
By Patrick Bigsby. Teaching, as my fellow GradHackers have written and as Edward James Olmos has demonstrated, is the sort of vocation that philosophers must have had in mind when they asserted that hard work is its own reward. Read more...
A Creative Commons Primer for Graduate Students
By Heather VanMouwerik. A guide to finding and using images for your scholarship and teaching. Read more...
The Necessity of a Dedicated Backup System
By Nue Lee. No one likes to talk about it, because it may be admitting that you don’t do it, but as graduate students, we must have a dedicated backup system. Read more...