Victoria McGovern - InsideHigherEd (March 30, 2020)|Posted on March 30, 2020
If you are in graduate school or beyond, you've lived long enough to know how to respond to challenges that life presents you, Victoria McGovern writes. What would your younger self tell you?
Ariel Sophia Bardi - Chronicle of Higher Education (March 27, 2020)|Posted on March 30, 2020
As a Ph.D. from an American university, and now a journalist/consultant based in Rome, I’d like to offer U.S. academics a few suggestions for surviving your time in quarantine, gleaned from what might seem like a surprising source: graduate school.
Stephanie K. Eberle (Inside Higher Education), March 23, 2020|Posted on March 23, 2020
With growing anxiety and isolation spreading across the globe, COVID-19 affects all aspects of our lives. The job market is no exception. While networking remains the top way to find and secure your…
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Colleen Flaherty (Inside Higher Education)|Posted on March 18, 2020
Michael Bruening, an associate professor of history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, serenades professors with an online teaching-themed cover of "I Will Survive." Bruening’s lyrics are tongue-in-cheek...
Mays Imad (Inside Higher Education)|Posted on March 18, 2020
While the technological know-how to virtually connect with our students is necessary, it is not sufficient to continue the teaching and learning, we need to connect emotionally -- especially in times of anxiety and uncertainty.
Every March, as faculty interview season gets underway at two-year colleges, I find myself thinking back on some of the memorable train wrecks I’ve witnessed. There was the extremely promising — not to…
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.