Fall 2025 Offerings
The Salamander vs The Gator: Utilizing Effective Strategies to Enhance Authenticity and Self-Care Practices
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.
Supporting Graduate Students’ Mental Health
Facilitated by Adrian 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.
The Nuts and Bolts of Mentoring Graduate Students: Building Relationships, Setting Goals, & Creating Success
Facilitated by Matt Englar-Carlson
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.
Supporting First-Generation Students Using Community-Building Strategies
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.
Funding Their Futures: Strategies for Faculty to Support Graduate Student Success
Facilitated by Matt Englar-Carlson
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.
