From the Naugle CommLab (a unit available to help you with communication and presentation skills) to dealing with a difficult advisor, Georgia Tech offers a variety of resources to support you in your academic and research endeavors.
Working With Your Advisor
If you’re involved with a research-based program, your relationship with your advisor is central to your experience at Tech. Both partners in this relationship must contribute for it to succeed. Here are a few resources to support both you and your advisor:
- Mutual Expectations of Advisors and Advisees. This resource from the Georgia Tech Catalog articulates key contributions that advisors and advisees should make to their relationship to ensure success for both parties.
- Best Practices for Qualifying/Comprehensive Exams. Prompted by the Graduate Student Experience Survey that identified the Qualifying Exam/Comprehensive Exam as the leading cause of stress among graduate students, Graduate Education did a study among schools to identify best practices to avoid undue stress in administering this exam. The following list was discussed and then endorsed by the Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee in September 2017.
Naugle CommLab
The Communication Center aids Georgia Tech students with communication skills and projects related to their classes, careers, and civic and community lives.
Language Institute
The Language Institute provides high quality learning experiences for English language learners to help them develop the linguistic and cultural competence they need to reach their academic, professional, and personal goals in the 21st century.
Library
From the Graduate Student Community space to research data management, the Georgia Tech Library hosts a collection of learning, knowledge, and information resources for graduate students.
Catalog
The Georgia Tech Catalog contains useful information about Tech's degree programs, courses, and graduate policies and procedures.
Registrar
From the Academic Calendar to degree information, the Registrar's Office provides a variety of resources to maintain and protect the official academic record for every student at Georgia Tech.
Policy Library
The Policy Library serves as a centralized resource for Institute administrative policies and student regulations, including student life, academic affairs, and research policies.
Conflict Resolution
The Ombuds Program, a confidential, neutral, informal, and independent conflict resolution and management resource, is available to assist any member of the Tech community seeking assistance.
Also, the Grievance Pathways chart (PDF) is available to provide insight into policies and resources for various types of grievances.
Additional Support Resources
Center for Teaching and Learning
Provides resources for graduate teaching assistants ranging from the Teaching Handbook to learning technology support.
Institutional Research Board
If you will enroll Tech employees or students in a research study, you need to confirm with the Office of Research Integrity Assurance whether the Institutional Review Board should review and approve your work prior to starting it.
Petition to Faculty
Information you need to submit a petition to a faculty member.
Postdoctoral Services
A unit in the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education that supports postdoctoral fellows at Tech.
SMARTech
Tech's institutional repository, containing more than 58,000 scholarly works, including more than 22,000 Tech theses and dissertations.