Programs

Programs are designed to create success through community-based and culturally responsive approaches. They adhere to diversity, equity, and inclusion practices that ensure that we do no harm, embrace difference, and invite dialogue. All programs fit within one or more of the following five tenets: Balance, Community, Culture, Mentorship, and Scholarship.

Together these five tenets and the programs offered through them form five holistic strands for understanding graduate student experiences and assisting, postdoctoral fellows, staff, faculty, and alumni to create and sustain viable mentoring relationships and communities during and after Indiana University. Programs that meet one or more of the objectives of the tenets also offer graduate students a path towards deeper self-awareness, decreased stress, long-lasting cultural understanding, increased productivity, and innovative research that can lead to a successfully completed dissertation and fulfilling careers within and outside of the professoriate.

Being at the Table

The Being at the Table series is held monthly and offers graduate students an opportunity to share strategies for negotiating your place and space in the academy during and after graduate school. Our conversations and activities are framed within the context of Fanon's three critical questions:

Who am I?
Am I who I say I am?
Am I all I ought to be?

Although these discussions are sequential, you are invited to participate in one or all of them.

Drop In, Write On

Need a space to write? Writing is an important part of the graduate program. The Center provides a space for ALL graduate students to write together every Wednesday and Thursday during the semester. During this time you will define and/or review progress on your SMART goals, on a weekly basis with a partner.

Let's Talk about Mentoring

Let's Talk about Mentoring is a series of workshops for graduate students, faculty, and staff about mentoring resources and practices. The workshops introduce faculty, staff, and students to The Center's approach to mentoring and continue the conversation about what it means to create a mentoring culture at IU. The first workshop if the academic year is designed for incoming graduate students and faculty members. Although discussion are sequntial, you are invited to participate in one or all of them.

Sitting for Peace

Learn and practice mindfulness techniques, with a particular focus on meditation. Practice sitting quietly, breathing, disconnecting from your external world, and connecting to your inner world. Join us on Fridays for weekly meditations in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

Tales of the Field

Tales of the Field are roundtable discussions are led by graduate students in the field phase of their research. These discussions help prepare graduate students for fieldwork by providing them with insightful information and networking connections with graduate students that are currently working in the field.

Programs

Programs

Being at the Table

Drop In, Write On

Let's Talk about Mentoring

Sitting for Peace

Tales of the Field

The Graduate Mentoring Center resources and social media channels