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Success Strategies Fro Grad School

This document provides an overview and strategies for success for graduate students at Toulouse Graduate School. It begins with enrollment statistics, showing about 8,000 total graduate students, most in master's programs. It then outlines a three stage model of graduate student development from early to mid to late stages. Key advice includes getting involved early through relationships with faculty and peers, seeking early research and conference opportunities, and taking responsibility for your own success and career management. The document stresses the importance of planning, resilience, engagement, professionalism, and mentorship for optimal graduate student preparation and success.

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Success Strategies Fro Grad School

This document provides an overview and strategies for success for graduate students at Toulouse Graduate School. It begins with enrollment statistics, showing about 8,000 total graduate students, most in master's programs. It then outlines a three stage model of graduate student development from early to mid to late stages. Key advice includes getting involved early through relationships with faculty and peers, seeking early research and conference opportunities, and taking responsibility for your own success and career management. The document stresses the importance of planning, resilience, engagement, professionalism, and mentorship for optimal graduate student preparation and success.

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Toulouse Graduate

School

Success Strategies for


Graduate Students
Victor R. Prybutok, PhD
Interim Associate Dean

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TGS Fall 2010


Grad Students Enrolled: about 8000

Post-Bac:
Masters:
Doctoral:
Spec-Prof:

1494
4870
1658
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New Doctoral Students Enrolled: about 300

New PhD students:


New EDD students:
New DMA students:
New AUD students:

238
19
57
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Graduate Student
Development
Three Stage Model of Graduate Student
Development*
1. Early Stage
2. Mid Stage
3. Late Stage

This model responds to some of the


commonly encountered challenges facing
graduate students.
*Adapted from materials MIT model
* Adapted from Stewart, Donald W. (1995). Developmental Considerations in Counseling Graduate
Students. Guidance & Counseling, 10, 3, 21-24.

Toulouse
Graduate School

Early Stage Efforts Results in


Mid and Late Stage Success
Early Engagement
Friends, Romans, Countrymen
Look for professional relationships
with peers and faculty
Early Research Opportunities
Conference attendance - Travel Grants
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Becoming Your Own


Manager
5 strategies for productive graduate
career
1.Take responsibility & ownership for
your success
2. Know available resources
3.Think ahead
4. Have a plan
5. Identify (and deal with) obstacles

PREP
PLANNING for success - entry to
exit
Planning during graduate school
helps you identify and achieve your
professional and career goals.

Early Planning
Course Projects, Papers, Etc.
Easiest path to an A
Or
Foundation for future research,
conference paper, and dissertation

Early Research
First year
Course projects
Work with faculty

Summer 1st year


Second year
Conferences
Looking for a mentor

PREP
RESILIENCE and tenacity through
multiple career and life stages
Resilience: the ability to adapt
effectively to adversity or change
Wellness: The integration and balance
of mental, physical, emotional, and
spiritual well-being through taking
responsibility for ones own health

PREP
ENGAGEMENT in decision-making
and skill development
Engagement in your discipline and in
your personal and professional
development is critical for enhancing
transferable skills, expanding
professional networks, and creating
partnerships and collaborations.

Engagement
Faculty mentor
Dont wake up after comps and look for a
mentor
Rather
Look at faculty each time you interact and
look for opportunities to engage and
evaluate them as potential mentors

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Selecting a Mentor
How do you decide who you can
work with?
Personality
Work style
Fun fun fun

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Authorship
How do you decide order authorship
Talk to the faculty before you begin

Look at journals in your discipline


Resolve any discrepancies before it
becomes too late.

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PREP
PROFESSIONALISM in research,
teaching, and service
Professionalism: how you reflect on
what you do in your discipline and
the types of attitudes, standards,
and behaviors you demonstrate
throughout your career.

Mentoring and Advising Promising


Practices:

Orientation

Development/Revision of a Graduate Student Handbook

Development of online student progress mechanisms

Early advising

Regularity and uniformity of progress review

Transparency about expectations and requirements

Mentor/Advisor selection and quality

Professional Development

Dissertation stage
From the Council of Graduate Schools:
PhD Completion Project www.phdcompletion.org
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Activity
Workshop
Make a list of class papers or projects you
have been asked to write.
Think about how you can use these papers
or projects to build expertise that provides a
foundation for your dissertation.

Form groups of three


Discuss your projects and how you will use
these papers / projects to assist in
completing your dissertation & publications.
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Toulouse Graduate
School

Important Points
Professional Development is both your
obligation and an obligation the faculty have
toward you.
Your likelihood of success is greater if you
make your development an active process
Little forms A to Z

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