GradWell
GradWell
Podcast Description
GradWell is a limited series podcast that explores various ways the University of Michigan can support its graduate students in their journey to greater wellbeing in their everyday lives. Created for graduate students, by a graduate student—brought to you by the Rackham Graduate School.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers diverse themes related to graduate student wellbeing, including environmental, emotional, intellectual, social, and professional wellness. Specific episodes focus on topics such as designing academic spaces for neurodiversity, managing mental health routines, embracing failure in intellectual growth, fostering community engagement, and enhancing career development in academia.
GradWell is a limited series podcast that explores various ways the University of Michigan can support its graduate students in their journey to greater wellbeing in their everyday lives. Created for graduate students, by a graduate student—brought to you by the Rackham Graduate School.
What is the best strategy to ensure success in our graduate programs?
In this episode, Dr. Terra Molengraff, the program director of First-Generation Initiatives in the Office of Academic and Multicultural Initiatives, discusses her book Decoding the Academy. Listen in and learn about the questions we need to be asking, as well as Dr. Molengraff’s key tips for your first few weeks of graduate school (and beyond).
While Dr. Molengraff’s research focuses on the first-generation experience, her results offer insights that all graduate students (especially new students) will benefit from.
Resources
- Email Dr. Terra Molengraff
- Decoding the Academy
- Rackham Professional Development Opportunities
- University Career Center
- Graduate Students Happening @ Michigan
- Get Involved and Find Your Community
- Graduate Student Opportunities at the Ginsberg Center
- Connect2Community Portal
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Reach out to Dr. Molengraff with any questions: [email protected]
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Guest Bio
Terra Molengraff is the program director of first-generation initiatives at the University of Michigan. She graduated with her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota’s Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development Graduate Program. Her research focuses on how colleges and universities support first-generation college students, with an emphasis on institutional change agents and organizational change. As a first-generation college student, her work now supports first-generation students and focuses on the intersections of the first-generation identity and how the structures of higher education can be changed to support students.
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