Wellness & Support
Maintain your Grad Gator balance, stamina, momentum, and connection with these tools.
GradCARE!
GradCARE is your convenient one-stop first step toward finding solutions to problems as a UF graduate student.
GradCARE cuts through barriers, pinpoints your predicament, and puts you in touch with pertinent sources of help to solve your problems — be they academic, administrative, health-related, or life in general.
Through this partnership between the UF Graduate School and the UF Dean of Students Office’s CARE (Campus Assistance & Resources for Empowerment) program, you will receive personal attention from start to finish to help you navigate anticipated transitions and unexpected challenges.
GradCARE Assistant Director Chris Walker — a professional practitioner of non-clinical case management — will meet with you to discuss your problem, assess your needs, direct you to available solutions, and follow up afterwards.
To get started, submit an online self-referral. Chris will then reach out to you to set up an initial meeting — and get you on the road toward solving your problem!
More Student Services and Resources
Explore other student services and resources on the UF campus that can help to advance your academic, personal, and professional growth as a Grad Gator.
Grad Gator Communities
Enhance your overall Grad Gator experience beyond the classroom and the lab by connecting with other UF graduate students who share your interests and aspirations.
GSAW: Graduate Student Appreciation Week
GSAW — Graduate Student Appreciation Week — is UF’s yearly celebration of the inimitable impact that graduate students make within and beyond the Gator Nation. Held during the first week of April, highlights include Graduate Student Research Day, the Grad Gator Prom, and the UF Graduate School Awards & Recognition Ceremony — plus more!