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Teaching experience in the academic job market
“Evidence of teaching effectiveness” adds to the ever-growing demands on graduate students.
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Myth busting: What exactly is a postdoc?
Often confused as either students or faculty, this ‘in between’ position is vital to the academic ecosystem.
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How being a caregiver changes your graduate school experience
What does a caregiver-inclusive university or workplace environment mean to you?
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Empowering international graduate students through community
The Job Search Club program at UWaterloo fosters a community of support and job search confidence by leveraging campus partnerships, research, student feedback and lived experience.
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Interactive simulations transforming business education
Engaging students through immersive experiential learning while providing personalized support for instructors.
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AI and the future of learning: Why you can’t miss this year’s Canadian EdTech AI summit
Empowering human-centered sustainable learning in an AI-inspired world.
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How benchmarking can help you adjust your career plans
Like personal goals, professional benchmarks can guide self-evaluation and setting targets for improvement.
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Navigating the ‘hidden curriculum’ as a graduate student with disabilities
Community and mentorship are critical for supporting the success of graduate students with disabilities.
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Addressing graduate student anxieties: measuring the impact of Individual Development Plans
Goal setting helps graduate students approach studies mindfully, normalizes challenges around future goals.
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Why it’s important to have effective mentorship training programs for postdoctoral fellows
When mentorship skills are a major influence on student success in STEM, how do you develop training that meets that challenge?
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Evaluating a program’s design can help improve its effectiveness
While evaluation is not without challenges, the information obtained can help streamline and target program resources most efficiently.
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Your job search through the lens of the Hero’s Journey
What separates the hero from others is a willingness to embrace the challenge despite the unknown and to keep going no matter the obstacles.
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Looking for career growth? The best way to move forward may be to pause
Put yourself front and centre in your career planning.
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Finding your voice in educational development
Educational development is an alt-ac career that leverages teaching experience and ‘enhances the work of colleges and universities, with a focus on teaching and learning.’
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Incorporating experiential learning in a PhD program
A faculty member collaborated with campus career services to deliver an experiential learning option to PhD students with diverse backgrounds.
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Showing your graduate student research to the world, during a pandemic
An interview with winners of McGill University’s Three Minute Thesis and Ma thèse en 180 secondes competitions.
