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Academic Resources and Support

The Career Center

http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/students/gradservices/index.html
The Career Center provides services for graduate students seeking positions inside or outside of the academy, including workshops, programs, counseling, a reference letter center, postings of job opportunities and upcoming campus visits by companies in various fields. Students should also check with their departments for additional career resources.

Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

http://www.crlt.umich.edu/
CRLT is dedicated to the support and advancement of learning and teaching at the University of Michigan, with special emphasis on undergraduate education.

Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR)

http://www.umich.edu/~cscar/
CSCAR offers the following services: Proposal Presentation and Study Design, Dataset Consulting, Choice of Statistical Methods, Use of Statistical Software, Interpretation of Results, Presentation of Results, Collaborative Research, Workshops, Remote Consulting, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Digital Media Tools Lab

http://www.dc.umich.edu/dmc/digitalmedia/digitalmediatools.htm
The Digital Media Tools Lab supports students and faculty engaged in projects that explore rich media and collaborative tools. The Digital Media Tools Lab defines ?rich media? as any digital media that includes a time-based component such as audio, video, animation, virtual reality constructions or other data visualized over time.

English Language Institute (ELI)

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/instruction/
The ELI offers a variety of courses in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) for nonnative speakers of English enrolled at?and visiting?the University of Michigan. The courses are designed to enable students to enhance their linguistic and communicative skills in order to become effective, fully participating members of the academic community both during their time on campus and beyond.

International Study and Research

http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/oip/graduates-professionals.htm
This is a handbook for graduate and professional students who are engaging in study or research abroad.

Knowledge Navigation Center

http://www.lib.umich.edu/knowledge-navigation-center
Your campus gateway to the knowledge resources of the library and the world...everything from print-based collections to global technology networks. The KNC offers skilled staff to lead you through the many dimensions of information technology from exploring the WWW to creating multimedia tools for teaching and learning.

Language Resource Center

http://www.umich.edu/~langres/student.html
The mission of the Language Resource Center is to serve, support and promote the study and instruction of foreign languages, cultures, and literatures at all levels within the University of Michigan community.

Numeric & Spatial Data Services

http://www.lib.umich.edu/sand/
Numeric & Spatial Data Services supports the use of spatial data, numeric data, and statistics in research and teaching by the University of Michigan community. They assist in locating and acquiring data sets, especially social science data sets and digital spatial data sets. They assist in using geographid information systems (GIs) software and statistical software. They maintain online searchable catalogs of numeric and spatial data sets. They also provide a recently upgraded lab in which you can do work with spatial and numeric data.

Sweetland Writing Center

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/swc/studentservices
The Sweetland Writing Center offers a variety of writing courses and support for graduate students. Among its services and courses, Sweetland Writing Workshop faculty offer skillful, supportive advice to graduate students as they draft their course papers, projects, and theses.

University Library

http://www.lib.umich.edu/
This is the main page for accessing the Library system for the UM Campus.