Category Archives: Adjunct Issues

Chronic Illness, Disability and Heternormativity on the Tenure Track (A Follow-Up Guest Post)
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Posted on April 19, 2013 by

This post is a follow-up to the guest post earlier this week, “The Real Life of a Tenure Track Faculty Person.”  That post generated an enormous amount of reaction and comment that is still going on.  One of the commenters … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Graduate Student Concerns, Mental Illness and Academia, Ph.D. Poverty, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia | 2 Comments

The Real Life of a Tenure Track Faculty Person (A Guest Post)
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Posted on April 16, 2013 by

This guest post came out of a conversation that’s been percolating among readers on the blog, facebook page, and over email, about the actual financial risks and repercussions of doing a Ph.D..  Indeed, last week’s blog post, Should You Go … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Graduate Student Concerns, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Ph.D. Poverty, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Work/Life Balance in Academia | 60 Comments

Should You Go To Graduate School?
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Posted on April 12, 2013 by

The “don’t go to graduate school” debate has flared up again this past week with the publication of this piece in Slate, “Thesis Hatement: Getting a Literature Ph.D. Will Turn You Into an Emotional Train Wreck, Not a Professor.  The … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Graduate Student Concerns, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia | 51 Comments

What Is a “Toxic” Campus? A Guest Post
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Posted on October 19, 2012 by

I have been asked by readers to describe the qualities of a “toxic” campus or job. I have thoughts on this, and someday plan to write a post about it. But for now, I offer this anonymous guest post by … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Ph.D. Poverty, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia | 11 Comments

Ph.D. Poverty–Guest Post IV
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Posted on June 14, 2012 by

Following up on the article From Graduate School to Welfare in the Chronicle of Higher Education, I am featuring stories of Ph.D. poverty here on the blog, contributed by readers. I will post them on Thursdays over the next month … Continue reading →

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Ph.D. Poverty–Guest Post II
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Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Following up on the article From Graduate School to Welfare in the Chronicle of Higher Education, I am featuring stories of Ph.D. poverty here on the blog, contributed by readers. I will post them on Thursdays over the next month … Continue reading →

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Ph.D. Poverty–Guest Post I
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Posted on May 17, 2012 by

Following up on the article From Graduate School to Welfare in the Chronicle of Higher Education, I am featuring stories of Ph.D. poverty here on the blog, contributed by readers.  I believe that one of the most important tasks before … Continue reading →

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A Letter From a Reader (With Thoughts on What Professors Make)
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Posted on May 8, 2012 by

I am interrupting regularly scheduled programming to share this email I received from a reader this week. I share it for several reasons. The first is as a follow-up to last week’s post, “What’s It Like to Work with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Postdoc Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit | Tagged , , | 12 Comments

Graduate School Is Not Your Job.
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Posted on March 27, 2012 by

For today’s post I direct you to my latest Chronicle column, entitled “Graduate School Is A Means To A Job.” It is an expanded edition of the post I published about two weeks ago, “Dr. Karen’s Rules of Graduate School.” … Continue reading →

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Don’t Go To Graduate School (An Inadvertent Guest Post)
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Posted on March 22, 2012 by

This post shares an email sent to me last week by a good friend, an NTT English professor  with a secure and well-compensated ongoing position in English at an R1 institution.  This email is a follow-up to an email she … Continue reading →

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