Professional Development
We believe that graduate training is holistic. For this reason, we promote our students’ professional development so that when they assume their careers — whether in academia, the private sector, government, or non-governmental organizations — they do so fully prepared and with confidence.
The University also strongly believes that Postdoctoral researchers and scholars should continue their training in these areas during their time at Notre Dame.
To that end, this section of the website is devoted to various initiatives clustered around the core components of Professional Development:
Notre Dame Graduate School Professional Development Program Vision and Mission Statement
Calendar
To view the upcoming events for each component, or to import one or more of the Professional Development calendars to your own Google Calendar, see the calendar page.
If you have suggestions for events, speakers, workshops or other feedback — or would like to announce your receipt of an external grant or fellowship — please contact the professional development team at gradprofdev@gmail.com. We would love to hear from you!
Plotting the Course of Your Professional Development
To assist students in tracking their professional development activities, the Graduate School has developed a professional development activities checklist, organized by items to be done early, middle, and late in one’s career, for each of the core components of research, teaching, ethics and career. (Also available as a PDF.)
We have also developed a roadmap (PDF) that highlights the transferrable skills that are acquired in graduate training and illustrates how these skills can be applied across a range of career opportunities.
A version of both the checklist and road map for postdocs will be available soon.
This report highlights the efforts of the professional development team and identifies its goals for 2012-2013.
2011-12 Professional Development Annual Report
- Professional Development Blog
A collaboration of news, events and helpful hints from the departments that comprise the Graduate School Professional Development team.
Graduate Students Only: If you have applied for an external grant or fellowship, please let us know!
Orientation for the 2012-13 academic year was held on Friday, August 17 at the Jordan Hall of Science. If you couldn’t make it, check out some of the things you might have missed below:
Join University representatives and other postdocs for a beginning-of-the-year reception. Details TBA.