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Category Archives: How To Build Your Tenure File
Of Cover Letters and Magic (A Follow-up Post)
There is some advice I give that I believe in fiercely and will defend to the death (ref: Should I Do an Edited Collection?). And then there is some advice I give that I am very willing to concede … Continue reading
Does the Status of the Press Matter?
Today’s post is in response to a reader who wrote in asking, “does the status of the press matter when seeking to publish your book?” Sometimes I am surprised by what people ask me, and this is one of those … Continue reading
Should I Send Out a Book Proposal Before the Manuscript is Completely Finished?
This is a Q and A that arose on the blog this week, following the blog post, How To Write a Book Proposal. I’ve been asked this question many times. This is my answer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Q: Karen, can I ask … Continue reading
Desperation, Addiction, and Your CV
It’s not often that I’m rocked back on my heels by any piece of writing that I see in the Chronicle of Higher Education, but this piece, “Not Quite Bulletproof” is one of those times. It starts out as a … Continue reading
Posted in How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Work/Life Balance in Academia
Tagged alcoholic professors, alcoholics and academia, alcoholism on the tenure track
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Don’t Get Your Career at Costco
From a reader, on Facebook: “Thank you for the post on The Five Year Plan. “After reading it, I realized that during my years as a tenure-track assistant professor, I went about publishing and doing research, the way I do … Continue reading
In Response to Popular Demand, More on the 5-Year Plan
In response to the flood of inquiries about what, exactly, a 5-Year Plan should look like, following on last week’s post, Why You Need a Five-Year Plan, I am sharing the plan produced many years ago by my first Ph.D. … Continue reading
Why You Need a 5-Year Plan
When I trained my own Ph.D. students, I always urged them to create a 5-year plan. Some did it as a list, and some as a grid. Either way, the plan laid out a month-by-month schedule of plans and goals … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Tagged five year plan for tenure, planning for tenure, planning for the Ph.D.
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How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference (Super-Special Request Post)
Today’s post is a Special Request for many, many readers who have written over the past year asking how to pitch their book to potential editors while at disciplinary conferences. I confess, I’ve been kind of avoiding writing this post. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Proposals and Contracts, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It
Tagged Advice for first time authors, How to get a book contract, Pitching a book to an editor
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Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Academic CV
Today’s post is a long overdue post on CV s. While the CV genre permits a wide range of variation, and there is no consensus on the value or desirability of one particular style, I am going to present a … Continue reading
Here’s What Goes in Your Tenure Portfolio–A Special Request Post
(Thursday Post Category—Here’s How You Get Tenure) This is a Special Request Post for Adeline. She wishes to know how to create a tenure portfolio. While every tenure process differs slightly by campus, and you should confirm all expectations with … Continue reading
Posted in How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Tenure--How To Get It
Tagged Assembling a tenure file, how to get tenure, How to make a tenure dossier, I'm coming up for tenure what do i do, What do i put in my tenure file, What is needed for tenure, What's in a tenure dossier, What's in a tenure portfolio
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