Graduate and Postdoctoral Success (GPS) assists master’s students, doctoral students and postdoctoral associates successfully navigate their careers.
We seek to enhance training opportunities for early career scholars and researchers that prepare them for a variety of career options in a dynamic workforce. Through innovative and quality educational offerings, our objective is to increase the confidence and motivation of trainees to identify and pursue their career goals, and to reduce training time to more efficiently direct their efforts. GPS programming is structured to allow for a high degree of flexibility, ensuring that trainees can meet their own self-defined learning needs within career exploration, professional development and academic scholarship.
GPS Calendar of Events
Browse the GPS Calendar to learn more and register for events and programs.
For questions regarding Graduate and Postdoctoral Success (GPS) programming, please contact gps@utsa.edu.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Success Programs
Transdisciplinary Team Grand Challenge
Our challenge to UTSA graduate student researchers is to work together across disciplines to propose conceptual projects to address any aspect of the topic selected each fall, including broad and narrow topics.
3MT® Research Competition
3MT® is a competition that provides graduate students the opportunity to showcase their scholarly work or research in three minutes or less. Additionally, 3MT® provides a great opportunity for presenters to develop communication skills, showcase their work with the San Antonio community and initiate new collaborations and networks. More importantly, there are cash prizes!
Dissertation Writing Camp
The Dissertation Writing Camp provides intensive, focused writing time in a quiet and supportive environment to help you make significant progress through the difficult stages of writing your doctoral dissertation. This program is for doctoral students who are starting or have started the writing portion of their dissertation manuscript. It is strongly recommended that your dissertation proposal has been approved by your committee before taking part in this camp. Camps are held during the Spring and Summer semesters.
GPS Micro-credentialing
Graduate and postdoctoral training at UTSA is predicated on the development of a set of interconnected skills and competencies that lead to academic and career success. To this end, the UTSA Graduate School provides competency-based professional development opportunities. To assist graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in tracking their skills acquisition, The Graduate School offers credentials or “badges” for achieving competencies delivered through various experiences.
Graduate School Fellowship Incentive Program
To encourage a culture where UTSA graduate students and their mentors prepare and submit competitive applications for national programs, as well as to underscore the value of these fellowships, we are pleased to offer the Graduate School Fellowship Incentive Program.
Career Pathways
The Graduate School and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs are pleased to welcome local, regional and national guest speakers; navigating our graduate students and postdoctoral fellows through the ever-changing landscape of career pursuits, career development and career impacts. Join us for candid conversations and unique insights through a career-focused lens.
