By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Congratulations on your new job and the fact that you already know how to ask highly specific mentoring questions! While there are many things that you could do the week before classes start to alleviate stress and ensure you keep your priorities clear, here are the three tasks I recommend for this week. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Non-tenure-track faculty members are the majority of the teaching force, so what are colleges and universities doing to help them develop as teachers? As for many issues related to adjuncts, there’s a significant data gap on the topic -- in part because adjuncts are diverse and decentralized, making them hard to study. Read more...
By Philip Nel. As we approach a new academic year, graduate students, postdocs, adjuncts and others are eyeing the job market warily and wondering, How do I get a tenure-track job? Here are a dozen pieces of advice to help get you to the interview and, with luck, onto the tenure track. Read more...
Stan Christensen is a partner at Arbor Advisors, he has nearly twenty years of experience in both transactional and operations roles and has worked on hundreds of transactions. More...
By . Eight states have released innovative best practices for other states and local areas interested in helping students land careers after postsecondary education. The Network of states’ practices are unique in that they offer a standard model of how to create this increasingly needed pipeline. More...
By Hassaan Ahmed. Pakistan Today has learnt that an amendment in university rules through an ordinance is on the cards for decreasing the tenure of vice chancellors of public sector universities from four years to two years while several prominent personalities from the country’s higher education circles have vowed to move court against the “planned move”. Read more...
By Marietta Morrissey. When my now retiring baby boomer colleagues and I searched for jobs in the late 1970s, we were largely in the dark about how the process of landing a position really worked. Ours was a dismal job market, although generally not as grim as today’s. Read more...
By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Dear Almost Tenured,
I understand exactly what you mean about the potential for awkward interactions during your tenure review year. Let’s be honest -- your colleagues are making a life-altering decision, but because it’s taking place over an excruciatingly long period of time, you will have to interact with them (and others) throughout the nine months you’re in limbo. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Within a gloomy academic job market, at least one small corner is booming: academic career coaching. Capitalizing on the lack of career advice most graduate students receive while in grad school, Karen Kelsky — probably the biggest name in academic career advising —has built a successful business on helping graduate students practically prepare for the hunt. Read more...
By Erin Clow. An alt-ac career is not the traditional route for a PhD, but it’s not shameful. Before even beginning my PhD, I had doubts about whether a “traditional” academic career was the right path for me. More...
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