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Tag Archives: How to deal with professors
The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)
For the next few months I will be posting the “best of the best” Professor is in blog posts on the job market, for the benefit of all those girding their loins for the 2013-2014 market. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today we have … Continue reading
Posted in How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Tagged academic job market help, assertiveness training exercise, body language of women, getting a tenure track job, How to deal with professors, How to shake hands, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school
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How To Ask A (Famous) Professor to be Your Dissertation Chair
Today is a Special Request post for Meagan, who wishes to know how to approach a famous and influential scholar in her department to be the chair of her dissertation committee. Ideally, you will have arranged to work with your … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia
Tagged dealing with your advisor, graduate school in the humanities, how to assemble a committee, How to deal with professors, replacing dissertation committee members, the best advisors, women succeeding in graduate school
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It’s Your Fault. Or, Who Gets Turned Down for Tenure?
(Thursday Post Category: Here’s How You Get Tenure) For this week’s “Tenure” post, I was planning to write a post called “Playing the Percentages,” about knowing your department’s expectations for your time and effort breakdown as an assistant professor. The … Continue reading
Posted in How To Build Your Tenure File, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Your Second and Third Jobs
Tagged assistant professor advice, department politics, getting help with tenure, How to deal with professors, how to get tenure, junior faculty advice, tenure track help, what is a strong tenure case?
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The 5 Top Traits of the Worst Advisors
(Monday Post Category: Getting You Into and Out of Graduate School; Sub-category: Advisor Drama) Those of you who have cruised around The Professor Is In. site are already familiar with some of my personal story of graduate school and the … Continue reading
How Do You Write an Email or Letter to a Professor?
One of the most common points of confusion among undergraduates and new graduate students is how to contact professors to serve as potential faculty advisors. This can be a minefield. I have been on the receiving end of many … Continue reading
