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This playlist begins with resources aimed at specifically maintaining a professional academic network, and ends with resources about maintaining a network more generally.

This playlist begins with an overview of what an adviser and committee do, moves into resources on working with your committee, and ends with resources aimed at specific potential problems.

This playlist begins with an overview of the different people and skills you need in your support system, moves into resources specific to maintaining your relationship with family, friends, and significant others, then discusses how to balance graduate school with the rest of your life, and ends with several MSU offices meant to support students through their program.

This playlist begins a discussion of how to be a successful graduate student, moves into resources on creating an effective and realistic writing habit, and ends with links to MSU’s official policies, procedures, and expectations when it comes to graduate students and graduate life at MSU as well as graduate student organizations that support you at MSU.

This playlist begins with a discussion of informational interviews, moves into resources regarding using your professional network specific to academic Ph.Ds, and ends with a more general discussion of how to use your professional network while searching for a job.

This playlist details several methods for assessing student learning, focused on strategies for time management.

These tip sheets are meant to provide support to educators as they try to understand and implement several MSU policies being discussed in workshops at the 2018-2019 Quick Start for Teaching and the New TA Institute. The contents were written by experienced educators and reviewed by policy experts on campus. These tip sheets should be seen as a supplement to (not a replacement for) reading the policies themselves, and the compliance information located on official MSU web sites. Links to official web sites are included throughout these tip sheets.

This playlist walks educators through a journey in thinking about their identity, student identity, classroom environments, inclusion, oppression, and more and asks them to critically engage and reflect in their practice.
It offers countless recommendations and strategies for being critically -minded in their pedagogy.