Services

Workshops

I most frequently offer workshops to help students and faculty become more productive academic writers. We focus on managing time and work, developing long-term schedules and short-term deadlines, overcoming procrastination and perfectionistic tendencies (and other obstacles), maintaining motivation, and managing (and reducing) anxiety and stress about writing, deadlines, and submission.

Some of these workshops focus specifically on writing:

• competitive graduate fellowship applications

• proposals

• theses

• dissertations

• journal articles

• book proposals and books

I also lead workshops on mentoring and being mentored, responsible conduct of research, academic integrity, and effective presentations (including 3MT).

Consulting

I have worked in graduate administration at both public and private institutions for 24 years and am happy to talk with you about a question or issue that I might be able to help you with related to graduate administration and leadership, graduate policy, graduate student professional development and programming, writing support, and other topics. (I enjoy trying to find solutions and solve problems!)

Resources

• Advising Guide for Research Students : Graduate School (cornell.edu) (co-authored with my Cornell colleague Dr. Colleen McLinn)

• Advising Guide for Professional Students : Graduate School (cornell.edu)

• Mentoring Remotely During Disruption : Graduate School (cornell.edu)

• Graduate Student ISO of a Mentor: A Dialogue About Mentoring (pp. 225-236), in G. Wright (2015), The Mentoring Continuum: From Graduate School Through Tenure. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, Mentoring-Continuum-for-web.pdf (syr.edu) (co-authored with Kevin Johnston, PhD student in history at University of Tennessee)

• Graduate School-Facilitated Peer Mentoring for Degree Completion: Dissertation Writing Boot Camps (pp. 23-48), in G. Wright (2015), The Mentoring Continuum: From Graduate School Through Tenure. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, Mentoring-Continuum-for-web.pdf (syr.edu)

• The GTA Mentoring Program: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Developing Future Faculty as Teacher-Scholars | Request PDF (researchgate.net) or The GTA Mentoring Program: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Developing Future Faculty as Teacher-Scholars on JSTOR

• The New Faculty and Graduate Mentor (forthcoming), Stylus Publishing