Graduate Resources
Departmental resources include:
- graduate courses offered
- past dissertations
- Writing, Rhetoric, and Praxis (WRAP) Graduate Student Organization (https://sites.google.com/msu.edu/msuwrap/home)
- MA portfolio development (http://www.digitalwriting.org/portfolio/)
College of Arts & Letters resources include:
- funding and fellowships information (http://www.cal.msu.edu/currentstudents/graduate/resources)
- the Writing Center (https://writing.msu.edu/)
University resources include:
- the Graduate School (https://grad.msu.edu/)
- the Graduate Employees Union (GEU; http://geuatmsu.org/)
- the Council of Graduate Students (COGS; https://cogs.msu.edu/)
- MSU Human Resources, Graduate Assistant Employment (https://hr.msu.edu/employment/graduate-assistants/)
- Counseling & Psychiatric Services (CAPS; https://caps.msu.edu/)
- Family and childcare resources:
- Backup Dependent Care Program (https://worklife.msu.edu/family-care/kids-parents/backup-care)
- MSU Childcare Grant Application (http://studentparents.msu.edu/family-resources/msuchildcaregrant/)
- Student Parent Resource Center (http://studentparents.msu.edu/)
Job and career resources include:
- MSU Career Service Network (https://careernetwork.msu.edu/)
- MSU Handshake (career-management and job-search platform; https://careernetwork.msu.edu/resources/handshake/)
- Grad School Career Development (https://grad.msu.edu/career-planning)
- Grad School Career Services (for PhDs, but also helpful/useful for MAs; https://grad.msu.edu/phdcareers)
Beyond-MSU job and career resources include:
- Connected Academics (https://connect.mla.hcommons.org/doctoral-student-career-planning-faculty-toolkit/)
- Imagine PhD (https://www.imaginephd.com/)
- Idealist (https://www.idealist.org/en/)
- Bookjobs (http://bookjobs.com/)
- MediaBistro (https://www.mediabistro.com/)
- GlassDoor (https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm)
- Indeed (https://www.indeed.com/)
