ImaginePhD is a career exploration and planning tool for Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers and scholars dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. It is a free, online resource that enables you to explore careers by evaluating and reflecting on your own abilities, values and interests that navigates related professional opportunities.

Leverage the Princeton subscription to LinkedIn Learning! You will find more than 5,000 on-demand courses on business, creative and technology skills at no cost.

myIDP is a free, career-planning tool that is designed to meet the needs of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars in the sciences. This tool helps you define and pursue your career goals with exercises to match your skills, interests and values with a variety of scientific professions.

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community that supports and enriches you to be successful in the academe and beyond. We have an institutional membership: claim your account today!

This list of professional organizations and associations has been compiled by the Princeton University Library--a key resource for Princeton graduate students, and a close partner of GradFUTURES.

The Keller Center focuses on bridging technology and society through innovation, design, and entrepreneurship. The Center provides a broad range of interdisciplinary courses, co-curricular activities, workshops, and lecture series aimed at educating leaders for a technology-driven society.

Keller Center Fellows in Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship serve as key advocates and supporters of the Keller Center's role while honing their skills as leaders and entrepreneurs. Graduate and undergraduate students selected as fellows serve for terms of one academic year. The fellows are invited to special events and functions hosted by the Center and are eligible to apply for special funding to pursue individual and group projects.

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community that supports and enriches you to be successful in the academe and beyond. We have an institutional membership: claim your account today!

The Princeton Entrepreneurship Council offers high quality educational programming, mentoring and connections to funding for entrepreneurs (and the entrepreneurially minded). Graduate students can develop and improve their skills, learn about new trends and industries, and connect with others in the ecosystem.

Princeton Innovation aims to encourage, facilitate and promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and partnerships that will enhance the quality and impact of research and teaching at Princeton University.

Princeton Innovation Center, powered by BioLabs, provides co-working lab and office space specifically designed to help high-potential high-tech startups go further and faster on limited investment capital. The Center is available to companies formed by Princeton’s faculty, students and alumni, as well as by members of the wider New Jersey community.

Graduate students in the humanities who have successfully completed their general examination and who have already demonstrated excellence in teaching as an AI in a previous semester may apply to participate in a pilot initiative that allows them to co-design and co-teach an undergraduate course at Princeton with a faculty mentor. The aim of this initiative is twofold:  first, to facilitate graduate student intellectual development and pedagogical and professional experience under the guidance of a seasoned mentor, specifically through the design and full co-teaching of a course; and second, to provide innovative new team-taught classes for Princeton’s undergraduates.

PUPP is a comprehensive academic and cultural enrichment program for high-achieving, low-income high school students from Ewing, Lawrence, Nottingham, Princeton and Trenton High Schools. PUPP works with high school scholars beginning the summer after their 9th-grade year and continuing through high school graduation. The program's goal is to prepare students for success at selective colleges and universities.  Fellows serve as mentors and lead weekly academic enrichment sessions on critical reading, writing and thinking skills for 6 to 12 high school juniors and seniors.

PTI provides credit-bearing college courses to inmates at New Jersey correctional facilities near Princeton’s campus. Courses in several disciplines are taught by volunteer instructors, including Princeton faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, alumni, and advanced undergraduates.  Graduate student volunteers have the opportunity to teach their own courses in a nontraditional, meaningful setting through this initiative. 

The Program in Teacher Preparation, commonly referred to as Teacher Prep, prepares students to serve as teachers and educational leaders in our nation’s secondary schools. The program is open to Princeton undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni, who may return to Princeton at any time to complete the program. Students completing the program earn a University certificate and are eligible for a New Jersey State teaching license, which is transferable to other states.

Princeton graduate students who will be registered in Dissertation Completion Enrollment (DCE) status are invited to apply for one-year positions as Quin Morton Teaching Fellows through the Princeton Writing Program. Quin Morton Teaching Fellows teach one topic-based writing seminar of their own design each semester and participate in an intensive faculty development program, which includes meetings and workshops on seminar design and writing pedagogy.

ReMatch is a research mentoring program designed to connect undergraduate students and graduate students, two historically unconnected populations at Princeton, through their shared interest in academic research. ReMatch offers fellowship funding for mentorship connections and joint research projects. The graduate student mentors come from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, representing research opportunities of interest to a wide spectrum of undergraduates.

Each of the undergraduate residential colleges at Princeton includes up to ten graduate students who live among the undergraduates within the college and offer academic, intellectual, social, and cultural programming and support to those undergraduates. Residents graduate students (RGSs) are appointed each spring through an interview process managed by the Office of the Dean of the College.

SIFP offers mentorship, academic enrichment, and a welcoming scholarly community to undergraduate students from backgrounds historically underrepresented at Princeton, including first-generation and low-income students as well as military veterans and transfer students.  Graduate Fellows provide individualized mentorship to an undergraduate student leader, as well as co-facilitate monthly mentorship meetings with 10-12 undergraduate students.

The McGraw Center offers extensive programs and services geared toward developing graduate students as professional scholars and teachers. These programs can assist graduate students in meeting degree requirements and acquiring skills needed for careers in teaching. Programs include: Assistant in Instruction Training, Pedagogy and Professional Development Workshops, and Scholarly Approaches to Teaching

Princeton’s Center for Career Development assists graduate students in exploring and preparing for their careers. The Center offers one-on-one advising and programs for career development tactics such as self-assessments, networking, internship and job options and more.

ImaginePhD is a career exploration and planning tool for Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers and scholars dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. It is a free, online resource that enables you to explore careers by evaluating and reflecting on your own abilities, values and interests that navigates related professional opportunities.

myIDP is a free, career-planning tool that is designed to meet the needs of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars in the sciences. This tool helps you define and pursue your career goals with exercises to match your skills, interests and values with a variety of scientific professions.

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community that supports and enriches you to be successful in the academe and beyond. We have an institutional membership: claim your account today!

CPS supports students with counseling, urgent-care services and long-term treatment, mind-body programs, emergency services, and more. They also offer referrals for off-campus services.

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community that supports and enriches you to be successful in the academe and beyond. We have an institutional membership: claim your account today!

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School and the Graduate Student Government, Graduate Writing Days offer graduate students of all years of study a quiet, comfortable place to write with good food and lots of caffeine. Pre or post-generals graduate students are welcome to work on a dissertation chapter, conference paper, journal article, seminar presentation, chapter, or grant application during Graduate Writing Days. Watch the GSG events calendar for upcoming dates.

Princeton Research Day (PRD) is a one-day celebration of the research enterprise across generations of scholars and researchers at Princeton.  It is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College, Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, Office of the Dean of the Faculty and Office of the Dean of Research. Undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs may apply to present their research in various formats to the campus community.  The event promotes Princeton’s commitment to scholarship, innovation, and research and provides a venue for professional development. There are additional opportunities to volunteer to chair or judge a session.  

Writing in Graduate School and beyond brings new challenges.  Not only do writers encounter different settings and documents, they must develop sustainable, self-directed, and productive strategies for managing successful research communications, including:

• Understanding new audiences and formats such as proposals, abstracts, dissertations, and journal articles.
• Obtaining useful feedback on works in progress and incorporating it into revision.
• Establishing scholarly practices to maintain motivation and focus over months and years.

Whether you’re looking for a single consultation or sustained classroom instruction, the Writing Program offers a variety of opportunities for learning that will serve you as graduate students, postdocs, and professionals.

• One-on-one consultations in the Writing Center for feedback on any writing project as well as assistance in developing a sustained practice.
• Focused instruction through both individual workshops and half-term graduate courses in Writing in Science and Engineering (WSE), for quantitative researchers, and Writing in Social Sciences and Humanities (WSSH), for qualitative researchers.
• Opportunities for developing sustainable practices in community through Dissertation Boot Camps and Writing Days.
• Opportunities to mentor and teach as a Writing Center, WSE Fellow, and Quin Morton Teaching Fellow.

Princeton Writes was established in the summer of 2013 under the leadership of John S. Weeren, former assistant to and speechwriter for now President Emerita Shirley M. Tilghman, with the goal of enhancing the practical communication skills of Princeton University employees and students. This innovative program provides a wide range of general and customized resources for those who wish to strengthen their command of the written and spoken word.