Meet Your Graduate School: An Interview with Associate Dean Dr. Chris Rios

This week we’re talking with Dr. Chris Rios, an Associate Dean of the Graduate School, and a former Baylor graduate student! So if anyone knows what you’re going through, it’s Dr. Rios. Dr. Rios joined the Graduate School in 2011 working in the area...

Graduate Student Awards Round-Up

We interrupt our Meet Your Graduate School Series to celebrate some special graduate students who have earned recognition for their excellence in various areas like research, teaching, and dissertating. Every year, the Graduate School recognizes several awards for...

Meet Your Graduate School: An Interview with Dean Larry Lyon

To kick off our new series, its only fitting to interview the person who captains the Graduate School, Dean Larry Lyon. Dr. Lyon earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Sociology and joined the Baylor Sociology Department in 1975. He began serving as Dean of...

How Do I Know if I Should Drop Out of Graduate School? An Interview with Associate Dean Sara Dolan

This is not a popular topic of conversation, especially at a university that just hit R1 status in no small part due to strong graduate student statistics. But after wrapping up a whole series on prioritizing mental health, establishing work/life boundaries, and...

How to Stay Sane in Graduate School: An Interview with Joyce Chang

To continue our new series on how to have healthy boundaries in Graduate School, I sat down with Joyce Chang, a PhD candidate in Sociology, who also works as a consultant for the Graduate Writing Center. Joyce has some wonderful insights about growing in boundaries...

How to Stay Sane in Graduate School: A Series

Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash This might seem like a strange topic to spend time on – after all, if you don’t have at least one mental breakdown a semester, are you even in graduate school? Well, maybe you shouldn’t be; or at least, if you do stick...