Mike Atkinson, SAGE Communications|Posted on March 04, 2020
A vast majority of U.S. employers say they rely on employees with language skills other than English to advance their business goals. Those unable to fill this need may find themselves falling behind in the global market.
Inside Higher Education (March 4, 2020) In her essay “Age, Race, Class, and Sex,” black lesbian feminist Audre Lorde noted that ageism distorts relationships and encourages people to repeat mistakes of the past.…
Ihad just received a private tour of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and seen treasures like B. F. Skinner’s famous Teaching Machine, but as I sat in a curator’s office and looked out…
Natalie Lundsteen (InsideHigherEd.com, February 10, 2020)|Posted on February 10, 2020
Exploring graduate career options and determining potential career paths is tough enough, but that's just what gets you started in the graduate job search.
ERIC SCHWITZGEBEL - Illustrations by Lars Leetaru - Chronicle of Higher Education Review, January 31, 2020|Posted on February 04, 2020
If you spot one of these jerks in the wild — at a conference hotel, on the other side of the seminar table, at a campuswide committee meeting — react as if you had spotted a bear.
Trisalyn Nelson and Jessica Early ( Chronicle of Higher Education, February 2, 2020)|Posted on February 04, 2020
[Academic] life can be lonely. The traditional academic model requires you to demonstrate autonomy in scholarship and teaching....Loneliness is especially problematic if you work...in an uncongenial department...But don't be fooled.
Bertin M. Louis Jr. (Inside Higher Education, January 24, 2020)|Posted on February 03, 2020
Since we have chosen self-flagellating vocations, it is perfectly fine to remind yourself that you do not need to be chained to your desk in order to produce solid written work.
Derek Attig (Inside Higher Education, February 3, 2020)|Posted on February 03, 2020
Looking for a job can be pretty terrible, and it’s often a long slog....A sudden offer, or the sense that one might be incoming, can prompt as much panic as delight.
The story of how the language of scarcity and individual investment became bipartisan orthodoxy begins with the marginal ideas of neoliberal economists in the years after World War II.
It sounds too good to be true—and it often is. A journal emails you out of the blue offering to publish your research right away for just a couple hundred bucks. These predatory…
Academe, as anyone knows who’s tried to leave it, is like a partner who is wrenchingly hard to quit.... The humanities are in the midst of an extinction event. No one knows what it will leave in its wake.
Masking our problems and pretending that everything is going well for a time instead of being honest and dealing with those issues is one of the biggest problems in our society.
Irina Dumitrescu (Times Higher Education) - November 21, 2019|Posted on December 05, 2019
Think the way to forge a brilliant career in academe is to produce good research, teach skilfully and mentor generously? That arduous approach works for some – but there is an easier way.
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)|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…