Figuring out your purpose in graduate school, with a little help from watching 90's Sci-Fi. More...
16 décembre 2018
16 décembre 2018
How to be a Better Graduate Student
Advice from the inside on how to reduce stress and use your school's resources more effectively. More...
16 décembre 2018
Surviving Your Departmental Holiday Party
‘Tis the season for one of my greatest fears: office holiday parties. No other event in the grad school social calendar combines the general awkwardness of networking, the delicacy of department politics, and the inescapable hierarchical debasement of hanging out with your boss. More...
16 décembre 2018
Millennials to the Rescue?
Young academics, branded as industry killers, should slay these higher education traditions, too. More...
16 décembre 2018
Disabled in Graduate School: Mentorship, Complicated
How a mentoring relationship can be problematic, especially for students with disabilities. More...
16 décembre 2018
Nose to the Grindstone
This is part three of my dissertation writing series. In today’s installment we discuss the practicalities of putting hand to keyboard to write your dissertation, and I share tips that helped me stay focused in writing mine. Feel free to jump in here or check out the previous parts:
Part 1: Pre-gaming your dissertation
Part 2: Catastrophe-proof your dissertation. More...
16 décembre 2018
Labors of Love
By Barbara Fister. The other day I reread the amazing New York Times magazine story, “The Insect Apocalypse is Here.” I’d read it some time ago, hastily, on my phone, then more slowly and carefully in print. More...
16 décembre 2018
Not-So-Funhouse Mirrors
By Barbara Fister. A fraudulent university that is also a fraudulent publishing empire and a fraudulent shopping network is an unsettling example of what can happen when the reality replicator gets gummed up. More...
16 décembre 2018
Why We Can't Teach Johnny to Write
By Barbara Fister. When I heard John Warner had some books coming out I accosted him on a Twitter backchannel to ask for reviewer copies. (This actually works, and I have the reviews to show for it.) This week marks the release of one of these books, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, from Johns Hopkins University Press. More...
16 décembre 2018
NPR's Adjunct Workforce
By John Warner. As reported at the Washington Post, between 20 and 22 percent of the workers in the National Public Radio newsroom are classified as “temporary.” The “temps” are not told how long their assignments will last, do not know their salaries, who they are reporting to, or even what position they hold. Feedback from supervisors is rare and they are “routinely overlooked in NPR’s recruiting efforts.”
These temps “do almost every important job in the newsroom.”
They pitch, assign, edit, report, produce, book guests, write the questions for the guests, essentially anything and everything a salaried staffer would do. More...
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