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 or so. I believe … [Read more...] about Ph.D. Poverty–Guest Post II
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Ph.D. Poverty–Guest Post I
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 us is to … [Read more...] about Ph.D. Poverty–Guest Post I
A Letter From a Reader (With Thoughts on What Professors Make)
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 Professor?" In that post I … [Read more...] about A Letter From a Reader (With Thoughts on What Professors Make)
Ageism and the Academy: My Thoughts and a Request for Yours
Regular followers of my Facebook page know that for a number of months now I’ve been soliciting a post on aging and age discrimination in academia. I’ve been seeking such a post because of the constant stream of requests I receive from readers to … [Read more...] about Ageism and the Academy: My Thoughts and a Request for Yours
Graduate School Is Not Your Job.
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.” As I said in that post, too … [Read more...] about Graduate School Is Not Your Job.
Don’t Go To Graduate School (An Inadvertent Guest Post)
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 had forwarded the week before, … [Read more...] about Don’t Go To Graduate School (An Inadvertent Guest Post)
Two Societies–Separate and Unequal: Thoughts on the TT-NTT Divide
On Tuesday I posted the first of two posts on the New Faculty Majority Summit on Contingent Labor in Higher Education that took place in Washington,DC this past weekend. That post was, as I said then, in a descriptive vein. I promised a second one … [Read more...] about Two Societies–Separate and Unequal: Thoughts on the TT-NTT Divide
Seeing the Invisible Adjunct: Thoughts on the New Faculty Majority Summit
I am the last of the Social Media Team from the New Faculty Majority Summit on Contingent Labor in Higher Education to get up my blog post about the event in DC this past weekend. This first post is in a descriptive vein. My second, on Thursday, … [Read more...] about Seeing the Invisible Adjunct: Thoughts on the New Faculty Majority Summit
Live Post from #NewFac12 National Summit in Washington, DC
Hi folks, I'm on the Social Media team for the New Faculty Majority which has put on the National Summit on Contingent Labor in Higher Ed today in Washington, DC, in conjunction with the AACU meetings. 8:19 AM: I am going to be putting up thoughts … [Read more...] about Live Post from #NewFac12 National Summit in Washington, DC
Supply and Demand on the Academic Job Market: Thoughts on Obsolete Professions
On Tuesday I attended a card-signing event on campus that was the formal launch of the voting process for the University of Oregon faculty union. The faculty union has been a long time coming, and this time it looks like it might actually happen. I … [Read more...] about Supply and Demand on the Academic Job Market: Thoughts on Obsolete Professions