This page contains a wealth of resources available to you, the student. All books are available at the University of Georgia libraries, as indicated by the Call Numbers, and many are available for purchase at location online such as Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com. This page was compiled by former GSA President Katrina Landau.

GENERAL GUIDES

FUNDING YOUR GRADUATE EDUCATION

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

MINORITY, FEMALE, AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

GUIDES FOR SPECIFIC DISIPLINES

GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHING

GRANTS

FINDING A JOB

GENERAL GUIDES

• The ultimate grad school survival / Lesli Mitchell.
  Call Number:  LB2371.4.M58 1996
• The graduate grind : a critical look at graduate education / Patricia Hinchey, Isabel Kimmel.
  Call Number  LB2371.4 .H56 2000
• The research student's guide to success / Pat Cryer.
  Call Number:  LB2395 .C787 2000
• How to get a research degree : a survival guide / Leonie Ephinstone and Robert Schweitzer.
  Call Number:  LB2381 .H684 1998
• The Ph.D. process : a student's guide to graduate school in the sciences / Dale F. Bloom, Jonathan D. Karp,Nicholas Cohen.
  Call Number: Q181 .B5574 1998
• The experience of being in graduate school : an exploration / Melissa S. Anderson, editor.
  Call Number: LB2371.4 .E86 1998
• So you want to be a professor? : a handbook for graduate students / P. Aarne Vesilind.
  Call Number:  LB1778.2 .V47 2000
• "So what are you going to do with that?" : a guide to career-changing for M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s / Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius.
  Call Number:  HF5382.7 .B374 2001
• Negotiating graduate school : a guide for graduate students / Mark H. Rossman.
  Call Number: LB2371 .R67 1995

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FUNDING YOUR GRADUATE EDUCATION

• Money for graduate students in the social sciences.
  Call Number: Main Ref LB2337.2 .M667
• Graduate scholarship directory : the complete guide to scholarships, fellowships, grants and loans for graduate and professional study / by Daniel J. Cassidy.
  Call Number:   LB2337.2 .C36 1993
• Free money for graduate school : a directory of private grants. / by Blum, Laurie (1990)
  Call Number:  LB2337.2 .B58 1990
• The graduate scholarship book : the complete guide to scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans for graduate and professional study/ Daniel J. Cassidy.
  Call Number:  LB2337.2 .C36 1990
• Money for graduate students in the humanities.
  Call Number:  Main Ref LB2337.2 .M664

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

• Achieving a PhD : ten students' experience / Phillida Salmon.
  Call Number LB2386 .S24 1992
• Writing the doctoral dissertation : a systematic approach / by Gordon B. Davis, Clyde A. Parker.
  Call Number:  LB2369 .D357 1997
• Writing your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day : a guide to starting, revising, and finishing your doctoral thesis / Joan Bolker.
  Call Number: LB2369 .B57 1998
• How to complete and survive a doctoral dissertation / by David Sternberg.
  Call Number: LB2386 .S75
• Working for a doctorate : a guide for the humanities and social sciences / edited by Norman Graves and Ved Varma.
  Call Number:  LB2386 .W67 1997
• The doctoral experience : success and failure in graduate school / Sara Delamont, Paul Atkinson and Odette Parry.
  Call Number: LB2386 .D44 2000
• Surviving your dissertation : a comprehensive guide to content and process / Kjell Erik Rudestam, Rae R.  Newton.
  Call Number:  LB2369 .R83 2001
• How to get a PhD : a handbook for students and their supervisors / Estelle M. Phillips and Derek S. Pugh.
  Call Number:  LB2386 .P47 2000

MINORITY, FEMALE, AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

• Communicate : strategies for international teaching assistants / Jan Smith, Colleen M. Meyers, Amy Burkhalter.
  Call Number:  LB2335.4 .S65 1992
• The women's guide to surviving graduate school / Barbara Rittner, Patricia Trudeau.
  Call Number:  LB2371.4 .R58 1997
• Male and female graduate students : the question of equal opportunity / Lewis C. Solmon.
  Call Number:  LB2371 .S64
• The African American student's guide to surviving graduate school / Alicia Isaac.
  Call Number: LC2781.7 .I83 1998
• Women in Academe: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Article) http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/academe/toc.html

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Planning, proposing, and presenting science effectively :  a guide for graduate students and researchers in the behavioral sciences and biology / Jack P. Hailman and Karen B. Strier.
  Call Number:  QH315 .H25 1997
• The Grad student's guide to getting published / Alida Allison, Terri Frongia.
  Call Number: Z286 .S37 G7 1992

GUIDES FOR SPECIFIC DISIPLINES

• Enhancing the postdoctoral experience for scientists and engineers : a guide for postdoctoral scholars, advisers, institutions, funding organizations, and disciplinary societies / Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine.
  Call Number: Q183.3 .A1 C65 2000
• Tomorrow's professor : preparing for academic careers inscience and engineering / Richard M. Reis.
  Call Number:  Q149 .U5 R45 1997
• Opportunities in biotechnology careers / Sheldon S. Brown  ; revised by Mark Rowh ; foreword by Carl B. Feldbaum.
  Call Number: TP248.215 . B766 2001
• The psychology research handbook : a guide for graduate students and research assistants / Frederick T.L. Leong and James T. Austin, editors.
  Call Number:  BF76.5 .P795 1996
• Money for graduate students in the social sciences.
  Call Number: Main Ref LB2337.2 .M667

GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHING

• First day to final grade : a graduate student's guide to teaching / Anne Curzan and Lisa Damour.
  Call Number:  LB2335.4 .C87 2000
• Guidelines for college science teaching assistants / Tamara J. García-Barbosa & John R. Mascazine.
  Call Number: J84: 433193
• University teaching : a guide for graduate students / edited by Leo M. Lambert, Stacey Lane Tice, Patricia H. Featherstone ; with a foreword by Patricia Hutchings and  Ellen Wert.
  Call Number:   LB2331 .U757 1996
• The Professional development of graduate teaching assistants / Michele Marincovich, Jack Prostko, Frederic Stout, editors.Call Number:   LB2335.4 .P76 1998

GRANTS

• I'll grant you that : a step-by-step guide to finding funds, designing winning projects, and writing powerful grant proposals / Jim Burke & Carol Ann Prater.
  Call Number:  HG177 .B868 2000
• Peterson's grants for graduate & postdoctoral study.
  Call Number:  Main Ref LB2337.2 .P46
• Proposals that work : a guide for planning dissertations and grant proposals / Lawrence F. Locke, Waneen Wyrick, Spirduso, Stephen J. Silverman.
  Call Number: Q180.55 .P7 L63 2000
• Winning grants step by step : Support Centers of America's complete workbook for planning, developing, and writing successful proposals / Support Centers of America ; written by Mim Carlson.
  Call Number:  HG177 .C374 1995

FINDING A JOB

• Ask the headhunter : reinventing the interview to win the job / Nick A. Corcodilos ; foreword by Nancy K. Austin.
  Call Number: HF5549.5 .I6 C668 1997
• Choosing an academic career : a discussion of graduate study and fellowships with special information for minority students / prepared by Martha P. Leape and Wilson Hunt, Jr. ; foreword by A. Michael Spence.
  Call Number:  LB1778.2 .L43 1993
• Cracking the academia nut : a guide to preparing for your academic career / Margaret L. Newhouse.
  Call Number:    LB1778.2 .N48 1997
• Moving on in your career : a guide for academic researchers and postgraduates / Lynda Ali and Barbara Graham.
  Call Number: LB1778.4 .G7 A45 2000
• Getting an academic job / Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Marcia Lynn Whicker.
  Call Number: LB2332.72 .K76 1997
• Don't wait until you graduate! : how to "jump-start" your career while still in school / by Keith F. Luscher.
  Call Number: HF5382.5 .U5 L75 1998

If you don't have your health...

Whether it's mid-terms, end-of-semester deadlines, or just life in grad school, graduate and professional students experience a great deal of stress. Find out what steps you can take to stay healthy when the heat is on:

Updates have recently been made to the University Health Center Graduate Guide to Good Health, a website specifically geared towards the needs of graduate students at UGA. Topics for the November issue include our Featured Clinic, information on the new student insurance plan and the Health Center’s flu shot policy for this year’s flu season. We also ask that you take some time to fill out the graduate student survey to let us know what you would like to see on the site in the future. Visit the website today! http://www.uhs.uga.edu/graduateguide.

• The University Health Center has other online resources specifically aimed at managing stress, nutrition, and meditation.

Tell Us Your Story

Have you had a bad experience that you can't talk about publicly for fear of departmental reprisal? Do you want to complain about the handling of your health insurance claim without sharing every private detail of your illness? Whatever your experience or concern, we recognize that sometimes you need to be able to speak up while keeping your head down. That's why GSA has created a new Tell Us Your Story page that allows you to submit your concerns in total anonymity. If you tell us your story, we can use it as evidence for a problem that needs to be addressed... and maybe prevent future grad students from having to tell the same kind of story.

Gimme Shelter

Did you arrive in Athens just a tad behind the curve on the whole housing situation? Do you find yourself looking around the apartment you arranged by phone and thinking that you need new digs for next semester? Thinking ahead to next year's homestead? Check out our housing in Athens resource page.

UGA Campus Links

• Visit the Graduate School at the University of Georgia to find out about policies, deadlines, and dissertation and thesis info.
• Curious about undergraduate student government here at UGA? Visit the Student Government Association.
• International students: visit the International Student Life site.
• Interested in taking courses at other institutions around Georgia? Find out how to do so for FREE if you are a currently registered student! You wont even have to transfer the credits! Just go to the Cross-Registration page.
• Need money? Check out what is available on campus at the Scholarships On-Campus Page.
• Thinking about living at the Graduate and Family Housing? Find out more about the Graduate and Family Housing Council.
• Trying to figure out how to stretch your paycheck without getting buried in debt? Visit the UGA Financial Aid’s new Peer Financial Counseling site.
• Graduate and Professional Scholars (GAPS) is a student organization which provides academic and social support for minority graduate and professional students while working to increase their matriculation.

Other Helpful Grad Student Links

• Here is a page with a BUNCH of great Info. Visit the Graduate Student Resources on the Web page.
• Doctoral Students.com. Here is a page with resources just for doctoral students.
• The results of a survey of Doctoral Education and Career preparation.

Graduate Student Organizations

• Why wait? As a grad student you can join the American Association of University Professors.
• There is a special honor society just for graduate students. Check out Alpha Epsilon Lambda.

Curriculum Vitae Help

• The University of North Florida has a great site on CV’s.
• About.com has info on writing a CV from the perspective of the job search.
• Here is another good link- CVTips.com.

Literature

• Want to keep up with what is going on in the academic world? Check out The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Workplace: The Journal for Academic Labor.
• Arts & Letters Daily. This is a great resources for those of you in the humanities.

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