by Chris Stephens —
Are you close to getting your undergraduate degree? Consider getting involved with PLAN. PLAN stands for Professional Development, Life Skills, Academic Development, and Networking. All four of these resources are critical for those interested in graduate school. PLAN is in its fifth year of existence, averaging around 400 students who participate each year. It is tailored to meet the needs of graduate students as well as potential graduate students. PLAN has approximately 65 different workshops to attend, which allow students to have variety in deciding which workshops will be most beneficial to their career. Students can go to one workshop, or all of the workshops. The student to leading faculty member ratio runs around one to 15, ensuring individual attention.
PLAN has a workshop coming up on Monday, October 27 at 2 p.m. in the Houchens Building, room 105. It will focus publication writing strategies.
“I’m hoping that students learn what they need to do to prepare to write an article,” Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies Dr. Beth Boehm said, “Some of our programs require an article in order to graduate, and this will help them fulfill that requirement. Many students are looking for academic jobs where one of the things that they will have to do for the rest of their careers is publish. We’re hoping that the students will learn more about that process, that it will demystify the process of publication.”
After participating in this workshop, students will have a clearer idea of how to submit work for publication, attain ideas on how to turn specific coursework into a research publication, and acquire tips on how to read and respond to specific comments. The PLAN workshops have had past success with students who earned several high profile academic positions, post graduate degree.
The Graduate Teaching Assistant Academy has been a direct correlation of student achievements. While attending the Graduate Teaching Assistant Academy students learn all of the important fundamentals to excel at teaching college students.
“We have a number of students who came back and told us that they believe they received their positions because they had skills that they learned through this,” said Boehm. “Particularly the GTA Academy which is our teaching academy, many of our students have received faculty positions where they hadn’t had a lot of experience teaching in their disciplines but they took the academy and were able to successfully teach a class, when they interviewed they were able to do some of the things necessary to get the job.”
If you are interested in registering for the strategies for writing for publications workshop or joining PLAN in general, go to www.louisville.edu/graduate/
