By Joshua Kim. Today is the day that I will be having a conversation with my boss about my annual performance review. So this upcoming discussion is much on my mind.
How do you think about, and prepare for, your annual review? What sorts of review methods and processes have you found the most helpful in your career. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Never schedule a work meeting before 8:00 am or after 5:00 pm. There will be someone on your team who needs to reserve these times to take care of family members. They can’t be in two places at one time. The fastest way to burn out good people is to make the balancing of work and family untenable. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I have this theory that if you are effective on social media then you stand a good chance of being effective in online teaching. How do these two activities go together?
Two words: presence and community.
The people who seem to get the most out of social media are those who dedicate themselves to being present on their platform of choice. Presence does not necessarily mean contribution. Read more...
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham. Last week, I returned to my graduate institution, UC Irvine, and was one of three panelists at a lunchtime discussion grandly titled “After the Doctorate: Paths Outside Academe.” In addition to me, the panel featured Jennifer Munger, an anthropologist who is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, and Elizabeth Pisani, an epidemiologist and writer who has worked on HIV prevention programs across Asia. Read more...By Shira Lurie. Let me begin by clarifying that no, I did not attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (I’m still waiting on my letter; I assume the owl carrying it got lost crossing the Atlantic). But in many ways, the first year of my PhD reminded me a lot of Harry Potter’s first year at Hogwarts. Read more...By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham. Graduation ceremonies seem to combine many of my least favorite things in life: uncomfortable chairs, being hot, waiting in long lines, listening to boring speakers (alas, no Hollywood heartthrobs have ever spoken at a ceremony I’ve attended), and shelling out still more money to rent or purchase the ridiculously expensive regalia associated with earning a doctorate. Read more...
By Andrys Onsman. Few of us who have been working in universities in Australia were surprised by the revelations made recently on Four Corners, the national flagship investigative current affairs program that alleged that several if not most of the country’s universities engage in ethically dubious practices when it comes to recruiting and graduating international students. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. As the first Mother’s Day since my mother’s death approaches, I find myself flooded with memoires of the woman who raised me. One memory that returns often is of my mother sitting with me, a teenager, solving Algebra problems together, hashing out how we would set up equations and whether the answers made sense. Read more...
By Susan O'Doherty. In 1970, when I entered college, I was less than enthusiastic about the school my parents had chosen for me. I had had my heart set on Middlebury, mainly because my favorite high school teacher had gone there, repeatedly told me I would love it, and had offered to push my application through. Two of my good friends were going to McGill and Cornell, both of which sounded brainy and exciting. Read more...
By Susan O'Doherty. I have been part of two projects that made me very grateful to be an American.
In the mid-1980s, I served as chief development writer for the campaign to restore the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Part of my job was to read the oral histories of immigrants, to incorporate their stories into our written material. Read more...
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