The Graduate College is pleased to announce the winners of three autumnal competitions: the Award for Graduate Research, the Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Award, and the Provost’s Graduate Research Award.
Mike Firmand (InsideHigherEd.com, December 1, 2019)|Posted on December 02, 2019
A phrase that I have committed myself to highlight, circle, underline or cross out in every instance so that I can share this pet peeve with each student I see. A phrase that has become the bane of my very existence: “I had the opportunity to …”
Geoff Maslen (University World News)|Posted on December 02, 2019
Five nations accounted for nearly half of all scientific activity around the world as well as the great majority of patents issued during the three years to 2017.
[This article is from seven years ago, but still seems pertinent. -Ed.] When Melissa Boone visits her family for the holidays, she is enveloped by the clatter of pots and pans and the…
Melissa Dalgleish (InsideHigherEd.com) - November 25, 2019|Posted on November 25, 2019
Many academics have a fixed mind-set about their intelligence and their work. We’ve tied our identities to being smart, to being good at our jobs. For many of us, that’s what drew us to graduate school. And it can be a trap.
Including open-access publishing in a contract between an American library and a behemoth publisher shows significant change in the publishing landscape. New deal between Carnegie Mellon and Elsevier....
Jessica Early and Trisalyn Nelson|Posted on November 22, 2019
As midcareer professors, we often hear newcomers to the tenure track worry about having to choose between academe and family life. Likewise among graduate students, the general perception is that, to succeed, they…
Leah Collum (Inside Higher Education, November 18, 2019)|Posted on November 21, 2019
Internships are a great way to develop your professional network in the United States and gain practical experience in your field of study before you complete your degree. Contrary to popular perception, internships aren’t just for undergraduates.
Much is at stake in academic mentor-mentee relationships -- not just the learning and practical support that matter for career success, but also the emotional well-being of both parties. And so it’s always worth considering how to make these relation
Jude Mikal and Sarah Grace, Inside Higher Education.com / October 23, 2019|Posted on October 25, 2019
The biggest issues impacting the quality of your grant proposals may not be grant-writing problems at all. By being aware of 10 red flags in grant writing, you can avoid a so-so response to yours.
Karen Kelsky (Chronicle of Higher Education, OCTOBER 20, 2019)|Posted on October 21, 2019
But dealing with illness on the job — and I’m focusing here on basic health woes, not on serious long-term diseases — is a fraught issue for all academics, who tend to have porous work/life boundaries...
Victoria Addis (Inside Higher Ed, October 3, 2019)|Posted on October 03, 2019
Academic book reviews deserve to be taken seriously, and reviewers at all career stages should be encouraged to aim for innovation and creativity when writing them. Why not offer prizes in recognition of reviews that push at these boundaries?
Justin Zackal, HigherEd Jobs, October 2, 2019|Posted on October 03, 2019
Should higher education professionals aspire to be specialists or generalists? A response to this question comes with a lot of “But what ifs.” However, becoming a generalist, as in acquiring a knowledge breadth through career experimentation, even
Kay Kimball Gruder, Inside Higher Ed, September 15, 2019|Posted on September 16, 2019
While on the surface it might seem like the internal candidate is always the candidate of choice, you as the external candidate might actually be the top choice.
Kevin Gannon, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 2, 2019|Posted on September 16, 2019
When it comes to online teaching and technology, however, many academics remain leery. They continue to suspect it’s where good teaching goes to die. [Here is] a counternarrative.
Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-Strombel (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 27, 2019)|Posted on September 10, 2019
Dark humor was a coping strategy for me and my cohort, which is why we regularly read Tumblr sites like Lego Grad Student and What Should We Call Grad School, as well as PhD Comics....