About the Course
Embark on a transformative journey with the BIPOC Grad School Guidebook e-course, designed to empower and uplift BIPOC students navigating the challenges of graduate education. Developed by Dr. Aileen Fullchange and Dr. Leann Smith, women of Color and trailblazers in their fields, this course provides invaluable insights, practical tools, and emotional support tailored specifically for BIPOC graduate students.
What You'll Learn
The course spans 7 modules, each rich with information and easily implementable take-aways.
- Orientation and Context: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the graduate school landscape, including the major historical factors that affect the current landscape.
- Essential rights: Know your rights as a graduate student under federal laws and institutional policies, and how to assert them.
- Practical Tools: Discover strategies to manage your workload effectively, minimizing stress and maximizing productivity.
- Relationship Management: Learn how to navigate personal and professional relationships within the academic environment.
- Institutional Insights: Understand the systemic forces at play in graduate education and how to maneuver effectively through them.
- Funding Strategies: Explore various ways to fund your graduate education while managing financial stress.
- Mental Health Toolkit: Equip yourself with a robust mental health toolkit to support your well-being throughout your academic journey and beyond.
Interactive and Flexible Learning
This isn't your typical e-course. It's interactive, featuring prompts for self-reflection and emotional check-ins, ensuring you remain connected to the content and your inner self while progressing through the modules.
Why This Course?
Historically, BIPOC students have faced unique challenges in the educational system. This course not only delves into the untold history of schooling in the United States and its impact on students of Color, but the e-course also sets up learners to better understand themselves, their environments, and be ready to utilize the research-backed strategies and interventions that are presented.
Ready to Thrive?
Join us in the BIPOC Grad School Guidebook e-course and equip yourself with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to succeed in your graduate studies. Let's build a community where you can thrive academically and personally. Enroll now and take the first step towards a more empowered and successful graduate school experience.
About the Authors
Dr. Aileen Fullchange
Dr. Aileen Fullchange (she/ella/i) is a second generation Taiwanese-American licensed psychologist and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist. As the first in her family to earn a Ph.D., and as a former foster youth who graduated college at the age of 18, she is passionate about merging psychological well-being, education, and equity as a clinician and a speaker.
Dr. Fullchange was a public middle school teacher and national educational consultant before earning a Ph.D. in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the founder of Fullchange Therapy, a psychotherapy practice serving BIPOC community members with intersecting identities, and a former adjunct professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has also published dozens of scholarly articles, book chapters and op-eds on mental health in BIPOC communities, social-emotional learning in schools, and resilience.
Dr. Fullchange has shared her knowledge, charisma, and passion with diverse audiences and organizations such as Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT), Ascend Pan-Asian Leaders, and the American Psychological Association (APA). She speaks English and Spanish fluently and is re-learning the language of her ancestors, Taiwanese.
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