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Adjunctification in the Performing Arts: The Other Ongoing Pandemic (Guest post)

By Karen Kelsky | December 23, 2020

This guest post was submitted last spring when the pandemic had just started (in case any aspects feel a little "early-pandemic") University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire: A case study in Music Anonymous - The University of Wisconsin at Eau … [Read more...] about Adjunctification in the Performing Arts: The Other Ongoing Pandemic (Guest post)

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Coronavirus, COVID19

Academia Is the Grift, Part II: Reader Voices

By Karen Kelsky | October 13, 2020

The grifter accusations popped up again on social media last week. Find one post here and then scroll up and down for a bit more commentary about it.  I still need to write the blog post that unpacks all of that and what it says about the … [Read more...] about Academia Is the Grift, Part II: Reader Voices

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

#Dispatches: Why The F**k Don’t We Revolt??

By Karen Kelsky | September 14, 2020

#Dispatches From the Frontlines Monday series crowdsources questions to get a broad indication of how our readers are coping with various challenges.The question right now:  Why the f**k don't we revolt???  (contributed by Kel, lol).  New #Dispatches … [Read more...] about #Dispatches: Why The F**k Don’t We Revolt??

Filed Under: #Resistance, Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, COVID19, Dispatches, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The Academy Is The Grift

By Karen Kelsky | September 14, 2020

Last week in my Starting a Small Business webinar Q&A, somebody asked me, what was your biggest surprise in starting a business beyond what you have shared in the webinar? I was startled by the question, and struggled to answer it for a … [Read more...] about The Academy Is The Grift

Filed Under: #Resistance, Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Careers Outside, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

#Dispatches: COVID Impacts by Career Level, Part II ~ NTT/Adjuncts/VAP

By Karen Kelsky | August 4, 2020

#Dispatches From the Frontlines Monday series crowdsources questions to get a broad indication of how our readers are coping with various challenges. The question right now: How has COVID impacted your career? Due to the massive number of … [Read more...] about #Dispatches: COVID Impacts by Career Level, Part II ~ NTT/Adjuncts/VAP

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, COVID19, Dispatches

Yelling at the Ivory Tower: How the CUNY Professional Staff Congress Came to Fail Its People – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | January 29, 2020

By Barbara K Emanuele. Barbara K Emanuele has served as an educator and an administrator in CUNY for twenty years. Her focus is on composition instruction to students in an urban settings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After months of negotiations, long past … [Read more...] about Yelling at the Ivory Tower: How the CUNY Professional Staff Congress Came to Fail Its People – Guest Post

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique

From Russia with Anxiety: An Accidental Alt-Ac Story (#Postac Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | July 17, 2019

I'm pleased to host this guest post by the indomitable Chrissy Stroop. Chrissy is one of my post-ac heroes, for her courage and commitment to exposing the Evangelical cult through her #EmptyThePews and related online community building and writing. … [Read more...] about From Russia with Anxiety: An Accidental Alt-Ac Story (#Postac Guest Post)

Filed Under: #Resistance, Adjunct Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Don’t Adjunct at Wright State University – It is Scab Labor

By Karen Kelsky | February 5, 2019

Real-time Alert: Wright State University faculty have been on strike for over two weeks. This week Wright State University admin has sent out a call for adjuncts to fill in the positions of the striking faculty members. They are offering on-campus … [Read more...] about Don’t Adjunct at Wright State University – It is Scab Labor

Filed Under: #Resistance, Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Anthropology’s Alternative Facts

By Karen Kelsky | January 12, 2019

After attending the AAA and AAR meetings, I wrote a blog post called A Tale of Two Conferences. In it, I bemoaned the sorry state of the AAA's engagement with issues of real-life (as opposed to academic jargon) precarity and the scandal of … [Read more...] about Anthropology’s Alternative Facts

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Call it Real-Ac

By Karen Kelsky | December 30, 2018

At the start of every talk that I give on the academic and post-academic job market, I state that in a decades long reality in which only 5-35% of PhDs (depending on field) will get tenure track jobs, the so-called "non-academic" job should NOT be … [Read more...] about Call it Real-Ac

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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