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Services for Graduate Students
Workshops
Events
Signature Events
Rebel Grad Slam: 3-Minute Thesis Competition
Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum
Inspiration, Innovation, Impact: A Celebration of Graduate Student Research
Graduate Spotlight Student Events
New Graduate Student Orientation
Professional Development Resources and Opportunities Across Campus
Services for Graduate Students
The Graduate College offers extensive services to support graduate students in many different areas. In cooperation with various offices at UNLV, Graduate Student Services seeks to provide information and programs that meet the unique needs of graduate students and support their academic and professional success.
Student Nonacademic Advising Services: The Graduate College nonacademic advising services provide informal and student-centered issue-resolution services and general nonacademic advising to graduate students and prospective graduate students. The office offers guidance, information, and assistance when regular channels have failed to provide graduate students with the information that they need to solve problems or make informed decisions.
Nonacademic advising services include answering questions and offering advice on graduate-level appeals, course overloads, leave of absence, thesis and dissertation formatting, undergrads seeking to take graduate-level courses, as well as information about professional development and career readiness and other administrative matters. Graduate students must consult with their faculty advisor, GAC, graduate coordinator, department chair, and/or college for academic advising.
Graduate Career Support: It is never too early to start planning for the future. The Graduate Career Support website contains information that will help students prepare for life during and after their graduate studies. You can find helpful tips on the website regarding the following topics:
- UNLV Career Resources
- Academic and Nonacademic Job Market
- Application Materials
- Preparing for the Interview
- Search Fellowships, Graduate Assistantships, Jobs, Internships, Summer Programs, and Postdoc Positions
Helpful tips and resources for writing academic papers, professional presentations, and conducting job search may be found here.
The Grad Academy
Please see The Student Life Cycle section of this Catalog.
Graduate College Co-Curricular Certifications
Please see The Graduate Student Life Cycle section of this Catalog.
Workshops
The Grad Academy offers an abundance of standalone workshops annually open to all graduate and professional students. In collaboration with campus partners, alumni, and the community, students hone valuable skills to help them progress through their graduate program and into their career. Workshops cover a wide range of topics including academic, professional, and life skills. Workshops can be found on the student calendar. Recorded workshops from past years are accessible to all students and faculty via the Graduate College YouTube channel.
Events
The Graduate College hosts major, signature events each year and you can learn more about them on the Signature Events page. These are free events that highlight the impressive work of graduate students and build a community around graduate education. The Graduate College also hosts a number of major student events each year that offer information, training, and resources.
Signature Events
FALL:
Rebel Grad Slam: 3-Minute Thesis Competition
The Rebel Grad Slam: 3-Minute Thesis Competition is an opportunity for graduate students to showcase their research and scholarship in an engaging way. This is a fast-paced research rumble to highlight the innovative and impactful work being done by UNLV graduate students. Come out to cheer on friends, students, and colleagues! Click here for more information.
SPRING:
Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum
The UNLV GPSA and the Graduate College host the Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum each spring, which showcases excellence in research conducted at the graduate and professional level. For more information, click here.
Inspiration, Innovation, Impact: A Celebration of Graduate Student Accomplishments
This event showcases the best in UNLV graduate student research. We invite you to join us to see a select group of outstanding graduate students from a variety of colleges giving short, five minute, TED-style talks or performances. Please see the program website for additional details.
Graduate Spotlight Student Events
New Graduate Student Orientation - Welcome Mixer
The Graduate College hosts a New Student Orientation in fall and spring semesters. Whether you are new to campus or an alumnus, you will learn important information unique to graduate studies at UNLV. You will also have a wonderful opportunity to meet other graduate students and get even more insider tips on how to survive and thrive in your graduate studies! Please check here for current orientation dates. Each department and/or program offering a graduate degree provides additional orientation and advising for new students.
Graduate Assistant Orientation
New Graduate Assistant Orientation is hosted in the fall semester. It features representatives from the university discussing issues such as student conduct, disability resources, policies and procedures, and meeting a class for the first time. It also includes a student panel discussion with Q & A. New Graduate Assistant Orientation is mandatory for all new GAs and recommended for returning GAs. Please check here for current orientation dates.
Doctoral Recognition Ceremony
Each spring and fall the Graduate College hosts this reception in celebration of our graduating doctoral candidates. The Doctoral Recognition Ceremony is held in addition to the university Commencement Ceremony and does not replace Commencement. For more information, click here. All graduates that attend the event will be awarded the UNLV Doctoral Honor Cord to be worn at Commencement. Students are hooded at Commencement.
Professional Development Resources and Opportunities Across Campus
Various offices across campus offer a variety of workshops and trainings, these include:
- Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP): OSP serves as the principal point of contact for individuals seeking and/or managing external funding for research, scholarship, and creative activities. It acknowledges and supports the efforts of faculty in seeking and utilizing external funding on behalf of their own professional interests and on behalf of the university’s mission. Visit the Training page for more information.
- The Office of Research Integrity: The mission of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) is to create and support an environment that promotes the ethical and responsible conduct of research while assisting researchers to comply with federal, state, NSHE, and local regulations with regard to research. Through key committees, related programs, and administrative activities, the ORI oversees UNLV policies related to research integrity, including the coordination of policy development and policy implementation. The ORI also provides support for the responsible conduct of research.
- UNLV Libraries Offers Instruction: Information sessions are provided for instructors that are designed to help students develop their abilities to identify, access, evaluate, and make effective use of information in its various formats.
- UNLV Libraries Workshops: A wide variety of library workshops are offered to UNLV graduate and professional students. All sessions are free. For a complete listing of available workshops and registration please visit the Graduate College Student Calendar.
- Writing Center: The Writing Center can help you with any writing assignment at any stage of the writing process. They can help in person, or you can send your paper using the simple form on their Online Writing Lab (OWL) page. Please note: GAs and adjunct instructors can request the UNLV Writing Center send a consultant to your class to talk about the services the Writing Center can offer your students. Call 702-895-3908 to schedule a presentation.
- Career Services: The mission of UNLV’s Career Services is to educate, prepare, and assist students as they pursue the career development and job search process in a global and dynamic world of work.
- Interfolio: Interfolio is a system to collect, manage, and showcase academic and professional credentials for post-graduate education, teaching positions in higher education, and other opportunities. Interfolio offers individuals one central place to store their most important documents, while also providing the means to distribute these materials to thousands of institutions across the country. Interfolio’s services offer a revolutionary way for people to market themselves professionally.
- Faculty Center: The Faculty Center hosts workshops and events, many of which are offered to graduate and professional students. See their calendar of events here.
- LinkedIn Learning: LinkedIn Learning offers thousands of on-demand courses on business, creative, and technology skills - available for free to UNLV students, faculty, and staff.
- Military and Veteran Services Centers: UNLV is honored to have the opportunity to educate and serve our nation’s heroes. We strive to provide responsive academic, social, and administrative support to student veterans, as well as active duty military members. Please note the following policy as it relates to veterans and VA funds: PL 115-407 Section 103 and 104 Compliance: Title 38 USC 3679 (e): A policy that does not impose any penalty, including assessment of late fees, the denial of access to classes, libraries, or other institutional facilities, or the requirement that a covered individual borrow additional funds while awaiting payment of VA funds under chapter 31 and 33. Individuals must submit a COE before the first day of class, a written request to use such entitlement, provide additional information necessary to certify enrollment, and may impose a fee for the amount that is different between the VA payment.
- Prevention, Education, and Outreach: CARE Presentations: Their mission is to grant access to knowledge, increase sensitivity, and change individual attitudes about interpersonal violence through presentations, discussions, and workshops around campus activism and violence prevention. To accomplish their mission, they facilitate educational workshops and presentations and staff outreach tables at campus events.
- OIT Canvas Training Workshops: Students have access to training workshops through Canvas. View a full training schedule here.
- OIT Trainings/Workshops: Training courses are offered to faculty and staff at UNLV, and student employees when space allows. Students are invited to contact the IT Help Desk where technicians can provide assistance with a wide range of computing needs.
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