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…
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, 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?