by beth_barr | Jan 20, 2020 | Beth Allison Barr author, wellness
Just this past Tuesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a great story on Baylor, How Baylor Revamped Its Mental-Health Services Amid a Scandal. In case you missed it, it highlighted then STEM graduate student Jennifer Wagner. Wagner suffered from a serious...
by beth_barr | Jan 13, 2020 | Beth Allison Barr author, Graduate Student Mentoring
My kids went skiing for the first time this winter. It was cold, really cold, on the snowy slopes of Colorado. Twenty inches of new powder fell that first day, making the slopes soft for my kids as they crashed over and over in beginner lessons. By lunchtime they were...
by beth_barr | Dec 9, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, graduate student advice
I still remember finishing my first semester of graduate school. It was December 1997. I had plunged directly from my undergraduate degree into a Medieval History doctoral program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I had no idea what I was doing....
by beth_barr | Dec 2, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, postdoctoral fellowship program
The Baylor Graduate School already offers doctoral students full tuition waivers, competitive stipends, access to health care (including an 80% insurance subsidy for fully-funded students), and generous travel funding that helped our graduate students to make more...
by beth_barr | Oct 21, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, graduate student advice
It had been a particularly bad day for me in academia. I was on the verge of submitting my recently published book for a major prize in my field when I stumbled across the book review. It was harsh, to say the least. Nerermind that it was the only really harsh...
by beth_barr | Sep 30, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, Graduate Student Mentoring
I was barely 22 when I started my doctoral program. I was a direct admit, straight from undergrad, into a top program in my field and with my first choice for an advisor. It really was a dream come true. But it was also terrifying. My seminars were crammed with...
