Season 2 Spring 2025 Podcasts

Here's a quick rundown of what's in store for Spring 2025 Grad-post podcast episodes. 

How does your grad school stipend offer compare to others in your discipline, and what things should you include when comparing offers? The Graddean gives you some resources and important things to consider. 

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/brian-s-mitchell/episodes/Episode-20---Fully-Funded--An-Interview-with-Dr--Vicki-Johnson-of-Profellow-com-e2olf7m 

https://www.phdstipends.com/

https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book/per-diem-rates 

https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/DMOmaRwLXPb 

Immigration attorney Kathleen Gasparian gives some great advice to international students entering U.S. graduate programs on F1 visas. 

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/visa-denials.html 

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas.html 

Hey undergrads - how have you been spending your summers? Consider getting paid to do research at some cool place you've never been before as part of a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. They're not just for STEM students! 

https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/xe1KglwLXPb 

https://www.training.nih.gov/research-training/pb/sip/ 

https://new.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/reu/search

https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/internship-programs/ 

https://www.energy.gov/careers/student-experience-program 

https://careers.state.gov/interns-fellows/us-foreign-service-internship-program/ 

https://www.pacificu.edu/academics/research/undergraduate-research/get-involved-students/campus-summer-research-experiences/arts-humanities 

https://undergradcollege.utexas.edu/academics/undergraduate-research/conducting-research/summer-research-opportunities 

https://envsci.northwestern.edu/off-campus/nsf-reu/ 

https://www.nsf.gov/awards/award_visualization.jsp?org=NSF&pims_id=505656&ProgEleCode=7727%2C080Y%2C079Y%2C288Y&from=fund 

https://www.daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/ 

Now that you're off to grad school, how are you going to find a place to live, especially if you are an international student? Here are some tips and resources to help get you started. 

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/renter-households-cost-burdened-race.html 

https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-room-board-at-college#:~:text=Average%20Cost%20of%20Room%20%26%20Board%20at%20College&text=Report%20Highlights.,of%20room%20%26%20board%20is%20%2452%2C700. 

https://feed.georgetown.edu/access-affordability/room-and-board-costs-rising-faster-than-tuition/ 

https://ope.ed.gov/campussafety/#/ 

https://crimegrade.org/ 

https://www.ucribs.com/blog-post/the-college-students-definitive-guide-to-rental-agreements/ 

https://movezen360.com/10-lease-terms-college-students/ 

The Carnegie Research Classification criteria have changed as of 2025. What does this mean for the category names, number of institutions in each one, and the future of the classification scheme? 

https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/hM4W0msVYQb 

https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/SaHC2O8dqQb 

https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/news/carnegie-classifications-release-2025-research-activity-designations-debut-updated-methodology/ 

https://www.diverseeducation.com/institutions/hbcus/article/15737390/howard-university-makes-history-as-first-hbcu-to-achieve-top-research-status 

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-068.html 

https://hechingerreport.org/colleges-are-now-closing-at-a-pace-of-one-a-week-what-happens-to-the-students/ 

The Graddean calls out university presidents to utilize endowment funds to honor pending offers of admissions to graduate students and guarantee funding to continuing graduate students. Listen to the full podcast for tips and advice if you are waiting to here on whether that offer of admission will be honored. 

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/trump-funding-freeze-grad-student-postdoc-acceptances-paused-nih-research/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00608-z

https://www.chronicle.com/article/this-years-ph-d-admissions-cycle-is-leaving-students-in-the-lurch 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1FLlILMkKFHgKwUawLqdwW2o84CLfBARQux5n-Pnbc40/htmlview 

Hey veterans! Looking for a job? Why not consider going back to school for an advanced degree? Here are some tips and advice on how to do just that. 

https://ourpublicservice.org/fed-figures/a-profile-of-the-2023-federal-workforce/#:~:text=Veteran%20Status,new%20federal%20hires%20were%20veterans. 

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2020/2020488rev.pdf 

https://www.nu.edu/blog/military-and-veteran-higher-education-statistics/ 

https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/z0LMjNhDfRb 

https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/DnbPoJhDfRb 

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2020/2020488rev.pdf 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-9/11_Veterans_Educational_Assistance_Act_of_2008 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_GI_Bill 

https://cgsnet.org/news/gradimpact/gradimpact-gallery/gradimpact-for-country-and-family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owySRiDRpt0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxyTGBmKlWE 

https://ung.edu/student-orientation-success/veterans-military/index.php 

https://studentveterans.org/ 

https://www.gs.columbia.edu/sam-military-veteran?source=GOGL&utm_source=google.com&utm_medium=paid_search&utm_campaign=General_Studies&utm_content=paid_search&utm_term=390901422&ss=paid&gad_source=1 

https://graduate.northeastern.edu/knowledge-hub/military-education-benefits-for-grad-students/ 

https://online.usc.edu/news/gi-bill-explained-finance-online-graduate-degree/ 

Here's more on the suspension of offers of admissions to graduate programs as a result of the proposed cuts to indirect funding from NIH. The Graddean weighs in on the unfortunate pairing of these two events. 

https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Pw8PCbKGxRb 

https://www.ed.gov/media/document/dear-colleague-letter-sffa-v-harvard-109506.pdf 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/13/trump-cuts-university-research-admissions/82367626007/ 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/johns-hopkins-layoffs-usaid-funding/index.html 

https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Understanding-College-and-University-Endowments.pdf 

Who will corner the market and offer free online master's degrees to anyone who wants one? The Graddean explains. 

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/educ_uoe_enrt01__custom_12109691/default/table?lang=en 

https://www.findamasters.com/blog/11522/how-common-is-a-masters-degree 

https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?lc=en&df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_EAG_UOE_NON_FIN_STUD%40DF_UOE_NF_RAW_FIELD&df[ag]=OECD.EDU.IMEP&dq=.ISCED11_5%2BISCED11_6%2BISCED11_7%2BISCED11_746_756_766%2BISCED11_8.GRAD...F00%2BF01%2BF02%2BF03%2BF04%2BF05%2BF06%2BF07%2BF08%2BF09%2BF10..A...._T.._T.&pd=2022%2C2022&to[TIME_PERIOD]=false 

https://www-genesis.destatis.de/datenbank/online/statistic/21321/table/21321-0004/search/s/bWFzdGVyJ3M= 

http://en.moe.gov.cn/documents/statistics/2022/national/202401/t20240110_1099530.html 

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-0845-1 

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d23/tables/dt23_323.10.asp 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_Process 

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/doctorates-awarded-by-country 

https://www.applyboard.com/applyinsights-article/major-english-destinations-faced-increasingly-polarized-media-search-trends-in-2024 

In the last installment of getting into grad school podcasts, the Graddean gives some final thoughts on how to prepare to enter graduate school now that you've accepted your offer of admission. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out 

Enrollments in master's and doctoral programs in the U.S. are up - but not for long. The Graddean looks at factors that will drag down the number of workforce-ready advanced degree holders in the coming years. 

https://www.ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25300 

https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/ 

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED590802.pdf 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43683-022-00080-5 

Posselt, Julie R. Inside graduate admissions: Merit, diversity, and faculty gatekeeping. Harvard University Press, 2016.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c00533 

https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/plus/grad 

https://www.reddit.com/r/StudentLoans/comments/1j1v0pe/the_future_of_gradplus_loans_after_july_1st/ 

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5246200/demographic-cliff-fewer-college-students-mean-fewer-graduates 

https://www.wiche.edu/knocking/ 

https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-starts-kill-grants-violate-trump-s-war-diversity-efforts 

https://grad-post.com/where-do-phds-work%3F 

https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=8784 

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5269824/pete-hegseths-views-about-women-and-military-standards 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/politics/trump-student-visas.html