Project upGRADS Certificate

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08/29/25, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Zoom

09/25/25, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Zoom

Facilitated by Jason Branch

Are you a salamander or gator? Are you wearing the superhero cape but running on empty? This dynamic workshop is designed to help faculty prioritize their own well-being while continuing to support their students effectively. Explore practical self-care strategies and learn how to build healthy systems, routines, and boundaries with graduate students. Leave with actionable tools and fresh ideas to foster resilience and sustainability in your academic life and beyond.

9/10/25, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Zoom

09/17/25, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Zoom

Facilitated by Adrian A. Rodriguez

This workshop explores how faculty can support graduate students' mental health by considering intersectionality, resilience, discrimination, microaggressions, and imposter syndrome. Attendees will develop strategies to broach mental health topics, cultivate empowering academic environments, and promote a culture of well-being and cultural responsiveness in their departments.

09/12/25, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Zoom

Facilitated by Matt Englar-Carson

Effective mentoring of graduate students of color is not mentoring as usual. It requires culturally responsive attention to the multiple identities and lived experiences of the mentee. This workshop explores evidence-based mentoring practices that focus on nurturing the relationship between mentor and mentee. Cultivating belonging, addressing overcoming barriers in higher education, and setting reasonable and reachable goals are the building blocks of graduate student success. Attendees will reflect upon their mentoring style, develop practical strategies for communicating with mentees, and gain an understanding of realistic ways to be an effective mentor.

09/25/25, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Zoom

10/07/25, 1:00pm - 2:00pm, Zoom

Facilitated by Edson Andrade

Establishing a sense of belonging can be challenging for first-generation college students, whose identities and cultures are often not represented in higher education. This workshop shares community building as a vital strategy for nurturing students’ success and belonging.

10/10/25, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Zoom

Facilitated by Matt Englar-Carson

This workshop equips faculty with actionable strategies to connect students with scholarships, funding, and travel opportunities—both on campus and beyond. Learn how to identify hidden pockets of support, guide students through the application process, and empower first-generation and underrepresented graduate students to leverage their cultural strengths and talents. You’ll leave with practical tools, fresh ideas, and a roadmap to foster graduate student success in a resourceful and impactful way.

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Facilitated by Erika Thomas

This workshop discusses communicative theories and their application to better understand the identities of your students and the ways power differences are implicitly and explicitly conveyed in everyday interactions. It presents techniques for processing and conflict resolution strategies in intercultural exchanges

09/09/2025 11:00am - 12:00pm, Zoom

10/01/2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Zoom

Facilitated by Sarah Grant

This discussion-oriented workshop emphasizes humanizing the graduate students we recruit, admit, celebrate, advise, and mentor while also recognizing the ethical obligation to guide them to completion and prepare them for a post-graduate future. Focusing on historically underrepresented and post-traditional graduate students, this session explores supporting our students in the classroom. It shares pragmatic techniques for cultivating graduate student peer relations that foster well-being and a thriving community while working toward degree completion.