By Barbara Fister. You can’t take a “what happens in Las Vegas” approach to online speech. More...
Not So Fast!
By Barbara Fister. Yes, digitization has changed the way we search, but students have always struggled to make knowledge out of information. More...
Promises, Promises
By Barbara Fister. All of the tech giants are suddenly into privacy. Apple started it, fighting off a federal demand to decrypt a phone and break a promise to their customers that their data, if not stored in the cloud, is secure, even from Apple. More...
Exploring Creativity in Graduate School
Research is a creative endeavor; oftentimes graduate students are looking at something that has never been looked at before, or approaching something from a completely different perspective. More...
Words With Students
I still love The Smiths. The songs performed by the 1980s English alternative rock band, like “How Soon is Now,” and co-written by its angsty lead singer (Steven) Morrissey helped me survive (ignore the worst of) my high school years and the days beyond. More...
Master of the House
An alternative income opportunity for graduate students: become a landlord. More...
Alt-What?
Pathways Beyond the Professoriate.
We’ve just finished putting on a professional development bootcamp at my home university and I’m on my way back from the Graduate Institute on Public and Engaged Humanities, and I’ve been thinking quite a bit about professional pathways and career prospects for graduate students. More...
Breaking Up With Your Advisor
What to do when you realize that your advisor just isn’t right for you. More...
Wrapping up the Disability in Grad School Series
My loose series about disability in graduate school has been running for a while now. I didn't realize quite how long it was going to get when I started it—I knew I wanted to tell professors that their disabled students and colleagues are paying attention when they talk about disability or about other disabled people. More...