by anna_beaudry1 | Dec 5, 2022 | Baylor Counseling Center, Covid-19, dissertation, Faith and the Academy, GPS workshops, grad student mental health, graduate student advice, Graduate Student Association, graduate student guest post, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, interview, life in grad school, mental health, PhD alt-career, Waco, wellness
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...
by anna_beaudry1 | Nov 25, 2022 | Baylor Counseling Center, grad student mental health, graduate student advice, graduate student guest post, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, guest post, interview, life in grad school, mental health, PhD alt-career, wellness
While it is wonderful to get the insights of fellow graduate students on the subject of boundaries, it’s also important to hear from a mental health professional about this topic. I sat down with Dr. Stephen Case from the Baylor Counseling Center to talk about...
by anna_beaudry1 | Oct 17, 2022 | academic administration, Beth Allison Barr author, Faith and the Academy, GPS workshops, graduate student advice, interview, life in grad school, PhD alt-career
With the recent re-launch of the Women in the Academy (WITA) mentorship program, we wanted to share an interview* from the spring of 2022 between Provost Nancy Brickhouse and our former Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Dr. Beth Allison Barr. We hope this...
by anna_beaudry1 | Sep 15, 2022 | dissertation, external funding, Faith and the Academy, GPS workshops, graduate student advice, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, guest post, life in grad school, pedagogy, PhD alt-career, wellness, writing
This post is based off of a podcast series that Dr. Julia Daniel did for the Baylor Graduate School back in early 2021. The first post covered the historic and economic reasons for the state of the academic job market and what applying for an academic job actually...
by anna_beaudry1 | Sep 9, 2022 | Covid-19, dissertation, Faith and the Academy, GPS workshops, graduate student advice, graduate student resources, guest post, life in grad school, pedagogy, PhD alt-career, Post-Docs, postdoc, wellness
This post is based off of a podcast series that Dr. Julia Daniel did for the Baylor Graduate School back in early 2021. This first post will cover the historic and economic reasons for the state of the academic job market and what applying for an academic job actually...
by anna_beaudry1 | Mar 14, 2022 | Beth Allison Barr author, graduate student advice, Graduate Student Association, Graduate Writing Center, guest post, interview, life in grad school, pedagogy, PhD alt-career, writing
Well, we’re back from Spring Break, which for grad students doesn’t mean living it up on a Florida Beach. It probably meant checking on your lab mosquitoes, editing a thesis chapter, catching up on grading student essays, or trying (we repeat, trying, not...
