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…
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|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.
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...
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?
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
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.
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 |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....
If you're a Ph.D. student reading this article, chances are that it'll take you less [sic] than five minutes. Not an outsized outlay of time, but still time you could have spent elsewhere....
The first essay I ever published online, “Coding ‘White Trash’ in Academia,” was a rant I drafted in a few hours — about how my rural, small-town origins often left me feeling out…
Russ E. Carpenter and R. Parrish Waters|Posted on August 30, 2019
For Ph.D.s on the job market in the sciences, no element of the hiring process is more important for making or breaking your prospects than the job talk. At some point in the…
Joseph Stanhope Cialdella (InsideHigherEd.com)|Posted on August 30, 2019
Employers frequently list collaboration and teamwork among the top competencies they value. More graduate programs are also thinking about how to better integrate collaboration and project-based learning into their curricula....