PLAN, Manage Your Professional Development as a Graduate Student
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Are you feeling isolated? Experiencing writer's block? Discouraged about not making enough progress on your thesis or dissertation? Becoming part of a thesis or dissertation support group might be a key to helping you turn things around. This document is based on advice found in several books about the graduate school experience as well the experiences of a focus group of Rackham students who have been in such groups. It gives advice about getting started and provides guidelines that, if followed, will help the group to succeed. Helpful references are also included.
The Executive Board of the Graduate School offers these policies and guidelines to help define the expectations of students and the responsibilities of faculty for doctoral education. They are likely to contribute to program quality, improve student morale, limit attrition, and shorten the time it takes to complete the degree.
OARD administers and is available to assist graduate students with the thesis composition process. Available from their site are printable forms, deadline information, and other resources.
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).
Mary McKinney's website featuring professional resources for finishing your dissertation, landing a faculty position and getting tenure
The Sweetland Writing Center offers free, individual writing conferences for graduate students who are working on course papers, conference presentations,dissertations, grant proposals, resumes, and other writing for academic or employment purposes.
The university-wide mission of the ELI is to provide a variety of credit courses in English for academic purposes for non-native speakers enrolled at the University of Michigan and to carry out relevant research.
This Chronicle of Higher Education article lists of some of the books on the market aimed at helping Ph.D. students.
Dissertation Committee Form, Guidelines for Dissertation Committee Formation, and Special Membership/Assignment Form in PDF format.
Information on Pre- and Post-Defense Meetings (formally called format checks).
Deadlines and grace periods for doctoral degrees.
Formerly known as UMI and Bell & Howell Information & Learning. They publish virtually all dissertations in Northern America.
A digital library of dissertations and theses from the University of Michigan. Search citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by your institution and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database.
This is a link to the University of Michigan's research site. Listed here are resources for assistance with finding funding and navigating through the research portion of the dissertation process.
The Collaborative Technologies Lab (CTL) supports the incorporation of media-rich content into teaching, research, and collaborative activities at the UM. The CTL is staffed by consultants trained in video production, web development, graphic design, and educational technology. Support for U-M CourseTools, SiteMaker, and WorkTools is also available.
Technology Transfer transfers intellectual property (patents, inventions, software, and other copyrightable works) created by University of Michigan researchers and employees for use bythe general public. This is accomplished by licensing technologies to industry and start-ups, and licensing software to end-users.
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.
This is main page for accessing the Library system for the UM Campus.
