Weekly Digest: Aug. 18
August 18, 2025
Author: Graduate College
Here are the key updates and deadlines from the Graduate College. For more details, follow the links provided.
🗓️ Action Items & Deadlines
- New Graduate Student Orientation: Throughout the day you will get the chance to interact with new and current graduate students, learn more about graduate student life in our breakout sessions, attend the resource fair, socialize, and more! ➡️ New Grad Student Orientation
- Grad Mixer Wednesdays: Learn about a community space for graduate students. Sign up for notifications for weekly highlights of themes and topics to power up your professional skills. ➡️ Grad Mixer Wednesdays
📣 New & Noteworthy
- Graduate School Workshop Series: The Graduate College is partnering with the Honors Program and Academic Success Center to put on a four-part workshop series this fall for students who are considering graduate school. This workshop series focuses on different aspects of the application process to help students prepare for the application and graduate program selection process. It is targeted primarily towards undergraduate Iowa State Students to help prepare them for entering graduate education but is available for any student at Iowa State. ➡️ Graduate School Application Workshop: "What is Graduate School?"
🧰 Resources & Reminders
- Tools for Graduate Student Success: Self-enroll in the new canvas organization for all graduate students! ➡️ Canvas Organization
- Academic Boot Camp: Join Beyond Professoriate on August 18-22 from 11 a.m. to noon for a week of webinars designed to help you prepare your job documents, get your questions answered, and create a career plan that will help you decide next steps. ➡️ Academic Boot Camp
- Succeeding in Graduate School: Calling all graduate students! First year: Register for GRST 5310X: Thriving in Graduate School and let us help you overcome the challenges common of transitioning into graduate school. 2nd+ year: Register for GRST 5330X: Sustaining Productivity through Accountability in Graduate School to enhance your scholarly performance.➡️ Course Descriptions
🤝 Partners
- Canvas Orientation for TAs: In this overview of Canvas assignments, discussions, and quizzes, you will learn best practices in assignment creation and grade book management to support faculty. Friday, August 29, 2025, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ➡️ Online Registration