4 octobre 2015
4 octobre 2015
Futures
By Matt Reed. According to experts on such things, millennials and their successors have abandoned the concept of “ownership” in favor of the “sharing economy.” They’ve moved away from cars and suburbs, favoring instead bike rentals and cites. They’ve abandoned the concept of home ownership, instead preferring to rent, and abandoned the idea of buying fixed media, instead preferring to stream. More...
4 octobre 2015
Teaching Students to Evaluate Us Better
By Madeleine Elfenbein. I’ll admit it: I like my students, and I want them to like me, too. Such is the humiliating plight of just about every grad instructor, adjunct, and professor I know. Our professional pride -- and, for many, our professional survival -- now hinges in part on what our students have to say about us at the end of the term. Read more...
4 octobre 2015
Dissertation From a Distance
By Wendy Robinson. Just over a year ago, I carefully labeled a moving box with the words “research- don’t lose!” and loaded it into the back of my jam-packed Subaru. As my husband buckled our two kids into their car seats, we watched as the moving truck pulled away from our now empty Iowa home. We were headed north, on to a new life in Minnesota. Read more...
4 octobre 2015
Moving Abroad For Grad School: Some Things To Consider
By Natascha Chtena. Lots of people say that moving abroad to pursue a graduate (or other) degree is a mind-expanding, life-enriching and fundamentally empowering experience - and most of the time it is. Read more...
4 octobre 2015
Full-Time Student to Full-Time Worker
By Lindsay Oden. Earlier this summer, I said one of my goals was to make a smooth transition between being a graduate student and being employed full-time. I was lucky enough to be offered a position as an archivist at a public, academic library, where I’ve been working for three months and putting my writing and research skills to good use every day. Read more...
4 octobre 2015
Baby Daddy
By Regina Sierra Carter. Intellectual promiscuity comes at a price.
I confess: I did it. I mean... them. My husband (i.e. the PhD in education) and his little brother (i.e. the M.S. in library and information science). I stepped out on my primary program and had an academic affair with another department. Read more...
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