In my role as a campus minister over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of helping students embrace the value of simple, flexible, and defined spiritual disciplines.Read more…
Letter to a New Graduate Student’s Family Series
Chandra Crane shares her journey of being family to a graduate student and unpacks ways of engaging in the unique journey of having a loved one in graduate school.Read more…
Letter to a New Graduate Student’s Family, Part 3
There will be times when your graduate student needs more strength, endurance, time, and patience than what she actually possesses.Read more…
Letter to a New Graduate Student’s Family, Part 2
The nature of grad school is a weird nexus of too much information (Here are 800,000 pages. Please read them by last week) and not enough information at all (Please figure out all the Things. Please create your own efficient life schedule. Please have a Fortune 500 CEO level of organization, motivation, and enthusiasm. Here is your $5 graduate school stipend).Read more…
Letter to a New Graduate Student’s Family, Part 1
Congratulations! Your loved one is not the only one starting a new journey. You have also started grad school, and you are now working on your own program of study. You have now begun your “PhT”: your Pushed him/her Through.Read more…