Culmination and Transition

Ways that programs and departments can assist students in this stage:

• Provide information on the academic and post-doctoral job search in your discipline
• Host a panel with alumni representing a variety of career paths focusing on how they prepared application materials, coordinated the application process, and professionally and personally transitioned from school to the workplace environment
• Conduct an exit survey to learn more about the graduate student experience of your program

• The Graduate School offers the Experiential Professional Development Summer Internship Program (xPD) to help doctoral students explore a diverse range of career opportunities beyond traditional academic faculty roles.
• The Graduate School, in collaboration with the Willis Writing Center, offers the Dissertation Writing Retreat every summer
• The Graduate School, in collaboration with the Office of Engagement, Leadership, and Service, offers GradLEAD, a semester long leadership development program offered every spring
• The Graduate School’s Graduate Degree Accelerator Award provides funding to assist doctoral students in overcoming obstacles to degree completion
• Graduate School Travel Grants are offered for students to present their dissertation or thesis research at conferences