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Adjunct Issues

Ph.D. Poverty–Guest Post II

By Karen Kelsky | May 24, 2012

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

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Major Job Market Mistakes, Ph.D. Poverty, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: From Graduate School to Welfare

Ph.D. Poverty–Guest Post I

By Karen Kelsky | May 17, 2012

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

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Graduate Student Concerns, Major Job Market Mistakes, Ph.D. Poverty, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: From Graduate School to Welfare, phds on food stamps, phds on welfare

A Letter From a Reader (With Thoughts on What Professors Make)

By Karen Kelsky | May 8, 2012

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)

Filed Under: 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 With: phd salary structure, professor salaries, what professors make

Ageism and the Academy: My Thoughts and a Request for Yours

By Karen Kelsky | April 24, 2012

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

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Intersectional Analyses, Major Job Market Mistakes, Ph.D. Poverty, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Graduate School Is Not Your Job.

By Karen Kelsky | March 27, 2012

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.

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Don't go to graduate school, finding an academic job, how to do graduate school, Is graduate school a good choice, the academic job market

Don’t Go To Graduate School (An Inadvertent Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 22, 2012

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)

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Don't go to graduate school

Two Societies–Separate and Unequal: Thoughts on the TT-NTT Divide

By Karen Kelsky | February 4, 2012

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

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: #newfac12, New Faculty Majority, Summit on Contingent Labor in Higher Education

Seeing the Invisible Adjunct: Thoughts on the New Faculty Majority Summit

By Karen Kelsky | January 31, 2012

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

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia Tagged With: Crisis in Adjunct Hiring, New Faculty Majority

Live Post from #NewFac12 National Summit in Washington, DC

By Karen Kelsky | January 28, 2012

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

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Crisis in Adjunct Hiring, National Summit on Contingent Labor in Higher Education, New Faculty Majority

Supply and Demand on the Academic Job Market: Thoughts on Obsolete Professions

By Karen Kelsky | January 26, 2012

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

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: tenure track job market crisis

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