GANAS Graduate Services Counselor
The GANAS Graduate Services Counselor (GSC) serves as a one-stop center for Latinx (aka Latine; Latino; Latina, etc.), POC, First-Generation, and Low-Income graduate students to address non-academic challenges that impede transition and degree completion. Services are designed to provide a safe space for holistic counseling and emphasize financial planning, budgeting, cost-control strategies, borrowing, and financial literacy.
*All UCSC graduate students are welcome to schedule a 1:1 appointment with the GANAS GSC!
How do I set up an appointment with the GANAS GSC?
You can book an appointment during one of the available 1-hour time-slots on the Handshake platform.
Once you make a Handshake profile (which can include as little or as much information as you wish), you can click on the top right-hand "Career Center" button, which leads to the UCSC page, where the appointments icon is located.
PLEASE REFER TO (21:58 - 27:16) IN THE VIDEO FOR STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT ON HANDSHAKE
What’s covered in GANAS GSC appointments?
- Financial health, literacy, planning, and wellness;
- Budgeting; Healthy Spending; finding funding
- Campus Community and Cultural wellness
- Navigating a New Space as a POC
- Familial/Personal Responsibilities
- Setting Boundaries
- Campus & Community Resources
- Programs; software; support
- Graduate Reading & Writing Support
- VOCES/Writing Center/ GANAS
- Academic and Career trajectories
- What DO you do with that degree?
- Strategies for self-care
- Tips, Tricks, and Practices to take care
- Help with University forms and processes
- LOA/In-Absentia/Part-time/Graduation etc.
- + Anything else you might need!
GANAS Summer 22
GANAS Graduate 1:1 appointments will be available both in-person and over zoom this summer with in-person meetings possible on Wednesdays. In-person meetings can also be scheduled on a Tuesday or Thursday depending on calendar availability. Availability will begin July 12th and carry on through August 17th, at which point GANAS 1:1 appointments will be paused until September.
For any questions or further assistance setting up an appointment, you're welcome to reach out directly to Angel Dominguez, Graduate Services Counselor, at adomingu@ucsc.edu