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.
Do your homework. Then you won’t sabotage your candidacy with an awkward comment or with a question that puts you in a bad light. Because ultimately, in any job interview, what you don’t say is probably every bit as important as what you do say.
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.
Susan M. Shaw, Inside Higher Education (March 4, 2020)|Posted on March 04, 2020
As universities strive to address important questions concerning diversity on the campus, they need to ensure they’re also challenging the notions and practices of ageism that are deeply embedded in institutional structures and ideologies of youth
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…
Andrew Kay (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 10, 2019)|Posted on January 09, 2020
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.
Adriana Bankston ,Inside Higher Education, January 6, 2020|Posted on January 08, 2020
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.