This is my first real post on this blog space, so welcome. This week, I am speaking at the first GSU College of Arts and Sciences’ graduate orientation. Here are some links that will be great resources for incoming students. As the panel talks through these issues, I may add to this post. Feel free to add comments with additional links.

Advice:

• Storify collection of tweets on “Graduate school advice”
• Collected advice from Harvard students, a Yale University professor, a UC-San Diego professor, the Modern Language Association, a Carnegie Mellon professor and the American Historical Association
• ProfHacker blog: Open Letter to Graduate Students
• ProfHacker blog: Open Letter to Part-Time Graduate Students
• GradHacker blog (for grad students by grad students)
• Twitter hashtags: #PhDchat

Community Resources and Links

• Blog: Revise & Resubmit
• Chronicle of Higher Education advice columns

Building Your Professional Reputation:

• Kim Voss (UCF professor) on promoting your scholarship via media relations and social media
• Kim Voss on communicating graduate student research
• Kim Voss on social media for academics
• Visibility and engagement 
• Developing an effective teaching portfolio
• 8 reasons why you should develop an online reputation

Alt-Academic Resources and Links

• Storify collection of tweets on “Our #PostAC so far #withaPhD”
• Jennifer Polk: From Ph.D. to Life
• The Professor is In
• Sell Out Your Soul
• Twitter hashtag: #withaPhD, #altac, #postac