Job interviews at the annual Modern Language Association convention contribute to a system that leads to graduate students' impoverishment, argues MLA head Paula M. Krebs. More...
6 mai 2018
6 mai 2018
6 Mistakes to Avoid When Negotiating Your Job Offer
You networked, you prepared, you aced one interview after the other and -- finally -- the hiring manager tells you that you are the one they want! You’re so excited, but this nagging feeling suddenly appears once you realized you should probably now negotiate. More...
6 mai 2018
4 Funerals and an Ending
Four departmental colleagues of mine have died over the past two years. All four were long retired, advanced in age and in waning health. I knew all of them, was close with most of them and was able to attend the memorial services for two of them. The funeral services were, as was appropriate, described as celebrations -- there was, after all, much to celebrate about their lives. More...
6 mai 2018
Challenged Academic Units
In a previous essay, we introduced the Academic Unit Diagnostic Tool (AUDiT) that we’ve developed at the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The AUDiT is a self-assessment tool for the health of academic units. Perhaps by now you have had a chance to use it for an assessment of your own academic unit. More...
6 mai 2018
Walking Around a Problem
Learning how to lead is also about learning how to balance the need for action with deliberative and deliberate approaches. It is quite correct to expect administrators, particularly in higher education, to demonstrate decisiveness in their decision-making behaviors. More...
6 mai 2018
The Racial Politics of Citation
The lack of citations of scholars of color furthers racial dominance and forecloses potentially valuable avenues of intellectual inquiry, argues Victor Ray. More...
6 mai 2018
Counselor or Coach?
The field of career services is changing, and one of the most significant changes is a move from a counseling model to a coaching model. For professionals on either side, the subject is wrought with complex implications and opinions. For trainees looking for the right place to find support for their next career transition, which model works best. More...
6 mai 2018
From Detour to Deliberate
The problem of post-Ph.D. employment, particularly for arts and humanities graduates, has become a mainstay topic of higher education blogs, conferences and other discussion forums. Diagnosing the problem’s underlying causes and recommending strategies to solve it -- both on institutional and individual levels -- has become a movement in its own right, as illustrated by the widely used term “alt-ac,” meaning alternative academic careers. More...
6 mai 2018
Leaving Academe and Lost?
Jennifer Polk and L. Maren Wood give advice for Ph.D.s struggling to find their values and their voice after leaving the academy. More...
6 mai 2018
Why Are We Meeting Like This?
Meetings among colleagues are commonplace in every organization. Academe is no exception. We have meetings for our specific schools, departments and units, not to mention the additional task forces, subcommittees, working groups, teams, ad-hoc groups, councils or advisory panels -- with each designed to help us serve the institution. More...
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