GANAS Graduate Success Counselor
The Graduate Success Counselor, formerly the GANAS Graduate Services Counselor (GSC), serves serves as a one-stop center for first-generation and low-income graduate students to address non-academic challenges that impede transition and degree completion through 1:1 holistic counseling appointments.
Services are designed to provide a safe space for holistic counseling and emphasize financial planning, budgeting, cost-control strategies, borrowing, financial literacy, and holistic wellness approaches and strategies.
All UCSC graduate students are welcome to schedule a 1:1 appointment with the Graduate Success Counselor!
What’s covered in Graduate Success appointments?
Financial health, literacy, planning, and wellness
- Budgeting, healthy spending, and finding funding
Familial and personal Responsibilities
- Setting boundaries
Campus community and cultural wellness
- Navigating a new space as a person of color
Campus and community resources
- Programs, software, support
Graduate reading and writing support
- Qualifying exam and dissertation planning support
- Writing tutoring and student-led groups
Academic and career trajectories
- What do you do with that degree?
Strategies for self-care
- Tips, tricks, and practices to take care of yourself
University forms and processes
- Leave of absence, In-absentia, Part-time enrollment, graduation, etc.
Attending your appointment
- In-person meetings on campus are possible with advance notice and on designated drop-in hour days. The Graduate Success Counseling office is moving to Oakes College – stay tuned for an exact location soon.
- You can switch to a Zoom or phone meeting format up to one hour before your designated meeting time by emailing the GANAS GSC.
Questions
For any questions or further assistance setting up an appointment or just navigating graduate school in general, you’re welcome to reach out directly to Graduate Success Counselor, Melissa Chimwaza at mchimwaz@ucsc.edu, or Angel Dominguez, GANAS Graduate Program Director, at adomingu@ucsc.edu.
Graduate Success Advising
You can book an appointment by clicking the scheduling button below!
