All the things I thought I knew about graduate school but clearly had no clue about. More...
Making the Most of Your Low-Res Program
For MFAs or MAAEs in creative writing, visual arts, photography, or stage writing, the option of low-residency has become increasingly popular as many non-traditional graduate students juggle other responsibilities. More...
Getting Through Graduate School with a Day-to-Day Job
On temporarily stepping outside academia for employment in order to finish my degree. More...
Getting Involved: Combining Work and Play
Run experiments. Read papers. Analyze data. Grade papers. Create meeting slides. Attend meetings. Submit revisions. Run more experiments. Read more papers. The long list of graduate school responsibilities makes it difficult for students to justify making time for extracurricular activities. More...
Alt-Ac Roundup
Many of us are heading toward the end of our academic year: finals for those on the semester schedule or the last term for those on the quarter/trimester system. And, likely, most of us are absolutely exhausted and worried about making it through the summer, financially and psychologically. These stressors are compounded by trying to figure out secure career paths in markets that seem stacked against us. But, there’s hope for reclaiming the reins. More...
Disabled in Grad School: Flexibility
This post is part of a (somewhat loose) series about being disabled at university, with a focus on graduate school: problems we encounter, how we deal with them, and what you can do that will make things easier for fellow graduate students with disabilities. More...
The Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision and Higher Ed's Approach to Religion
By Eboo Patel. If one of your graduates was on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and heard the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, could s/he have made the hostile comments about religion that the Supreme Court found objectionable. More...
Social Change is the Art of Persuasion
By Eboo Patel. Which approach to diversity – the langue of power and privilege, or the language of American capaciousness – is better for multiculturalism. More...
Une diffusion limitée de l’entretien professionnel dans les petites entreprises
Un panorama statistique 2018 sur les métiers du sport et de l’animation est publié par les Carif-Oref* de Nouvelle-Aquitaine en partenariat avec la Direction Régionale et Départementale de la Jeunesse, des Sports et de la Cohésion Sociale (DRDJSCS)La loi Formation du 5 mars 2014 a instauré un entretien professionnel pour tous les salariés, centré sur les perspectives d’évolution professionnelle, notamment en termes de qualification et d’emploi. Tout employeur est tenu d’organiser un tel entretien tous les deux ans. (+ d’infos).
Le Céreq, dans une publication datée de juin 2018, propose une analyse du déploiement des entretiens professionnels en entreprise, à partir d’une enquête menée auprès des salariés du dispositif Defis. Plus...
Other Industries
By Matt Reed. At a family gathering, he noticed that people who work outside of higher education are free of the existential dread for the sector that we’ve come to consider normal. If anything, the dread is probably even more pronounced in the community college sector than in the Dartmouths of the world. More...