By Joshua Kim. At a certain point in your career, you will likely to be contacted by a recruiter about a job opportunity, at an institution not your own. More...
20 septembre 2019
20 septembre 2019
Returning to the Graduate Center Bar (GCB)
By Joshua Kim. Twenty-seven years and some months ago, my wife and I met at the GCB - otherwise known as the Graduate Center Bar. She was a first-year MFA student (creative writing). I was a first-year grad student in sociology. More...
20 septembre 2019
The Bike Mechanic and the Professor
By Joshua Kim. Want to understand what the life of a professor will be like in the future? Spend some time with your local bike mechanic. More...
20 septembre 2019
Talking About 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Books’
By Joshua Kim. Readers who prefer paper look to books for not only entertainment and edification, but also to enforce a disconnect from the world of screen-based distraction. The paper book becomes both buffer and antidote to the allure of surfing, and the demands of the tweet and the e-mail. More...
20 septembre 2019
The Benefits of Business Cards
A good business card is for more than just job hunting – it can help you forge new collaborations in the lab and communicate your research outside of it. More...
20 septembre 2019
Life After Comps
It’s an all too familiar story among PhD students. You exhaust yourself preparing for exams, finally pass and put them behind you, and then you… become dormant and non-productive for months afterward. More...
20 septembre 2019
The Growing Complexities of International Collaboration
Did anyone really anticipate just how complicated internationalization in higher education was going to be? The idealists among us hoped for that the flow of talent around the globe would lead to multinational collaborations to speed up innovation and the development new knowledge that would address the world’s most pressing problems and ultimately improve quality of life everywhere. More...
20 septembre 2019
Is There Corruption in Moldova’s Universities?
Underpaid faculty members may have no choice but to seek different sources of supplemental income.
As with other segments of the public sector, higher education in Moldova may not be entirely free of corruption. Informal conversations about higher education corruption with different interested parties including students, former students, parents, and citizens bore some fruit. So, is there corruption in Moldova’s universities? Higher education in Moldova is popular, and academic degrees are in high demand. It is very popular to have a BA, MA, or doctorate. More...
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