If the best dissertation is a finished dissertation, as the saying goes, is the best doctorate simply the one that is over and done with. More...
Tuning your Pedagogical Practices: Building a Universal Teaching Environment
Graduate student instructors sometimes operate under a lot of external constraints, because they do not have much control over the curriculum they are being asked to teach. That can make receiving an accommodation notification from a student rather fraught. More...
Odd One Out
While the 2017 national average for graduate degrees shows that about 9.3% of the population has a masters degree, 2% a doctoral, and 1.5% a professional, graduate education amongst Black people is lower than their white and Asian counterparts according to a 2016 census on educational attainment. More...
Let Your Students Say “I”
Employing an alternative genre essay to improve student writing. More...
Exploring Alternative Academic Careers
While more and more faculty are recognizing the value of “alt-ac” careers for graduate students, most academic departments aren’t well-equipped to help students explore and pursue these careers. More...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide
Between studying for exams, TA-ing, freaking out about the job market, and writing a dissertation, the graduate student in your life could use a little TLC this holiday season. We at GradHacker are here to help with a few gift ideas of our own. More...
Disabled in Grad School: I, Too, Dread the Accommodations Talk
This post is part of a (somewhat loose) series about being disabled at university, with a focus on graduate school: problems we encounter, how we deal with them, and what you can do that will make things easier for fellow graduate students with disabilities. More...