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Ableism and the “Post-Pandemic” Rollback of Extensions 

By Guest Author | June 6, 2022

by Holly Genovese Holly Genovese is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at UT Austin, with graduate portfolios in both Black Studies and Women's and Gender Studies. Her work focuses on African American aesthetic resistance to incarceration in the … [Read more...] about Ableism and the “Post-Pandemic” Rollback of Extensions 

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, COVID19, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Demos

Paying The Price: The Costs of Academia for First-Gen BIPOC Scholars

By Guest Author | April 8, 2022

By Cecilia Caballero. Bio: Based in LA, Cecilia Caballero is a single mother, creative nonfiction writer, poet, teaching artist, and lecturer of Ethnic Studies. As a teaching artist, Cecilia facilitates generative poetry workshops for BIPOC … [Read more...] about Paying The Price: The Costs of Academia for First-Gen BIPOC Scholars

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, Marginalized Voices, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Women of Color in Academia

Near Death of an Accidental Academic – Guest Post

By Guest Author | March 25, 2022

By Sandra Mizumoto Posey I’m an accidental academic, but once I fell into academia I kept falling. It was pure luck that the only job I was invited to interview for when I was searching for a job with benefits — in or out of academia —  was the one … [Read more...] about Near Death of an Accidental Academic – Guest Post

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Mental Health and Academia, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Upcoming Coaching Events for Scholars in Crisis

By Karen Kelsky | March 22, 2022

Emotional, physical, spiritual exhaustion. Cynicism and snark as far as the eye can see. Job conditions getting worse by the minute. How do we get our energy back? The answer is: we can’t. We won’t. Not by working the same old jobs in the same old … [Read more...] about Upcoming Coaching Events for Scholars in Crisis

Filed Under: Advising Advice, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

Spring 2022 Career Outcomes Digest

By Karen Kelsky | February 24, 2022

I just gathered up a new Spring 2022 Career Outcomes Digest, with updates from both clients and readers. Lots of great updates on interviews, job offers, negotiations, and grants, plus one successful client tenure case! The negotiators make me … [Read more...] about Spring 2022 Career Outcomes Digest

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Between Grief and Freedom: What My Dear Friend Taught Me About Getting to the Other Side of Academia

By Guest Author | February 17, 2022

by Dr. Elana Jefferson-Tatum Dr. Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Ph.D. is hypnobirthing coach, full-spectrum doula, and practitioner-scholar of Africana religions. After several years in the academy teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and then Tufts … [Read more...] about Between Grief and Freedom: What My Dear Friend Taught Me About Getting to the Other Side of Academia

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Black Lives Matter, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Everyone Needs Play!

By Karen Kelsky | February 8, 2022

Those who follow me on social media know I've suddenly started painting a Disaffected Academic Bunnies(TM) series. I've never painted before, and cannot tell you why I have started now. I just encountered the artist Natalya Shaloshvili on IG randomly … [Read more...] about Everyone Needs Play!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Mental Health and Academia, Productivity, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The Professor Is In HAS Changed, Part II, or I Don’t Give a Flying Fuck What You Wear

By Karen Kelsky | January 21, 2022

[Also originally shared on FB] Sharing a thought (adapted from a FB comment below):   This whole recent kerfluffle about wHaT Is tHe PoInT oF tHiS [FB] pAge, a version of which arises about 2x a year, is so weird to me. I've always held … [Read more...] about The Professor Is In HAS Changed, Part II, or I Don’t Give a Flying Fuck What You Wear

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Mental Health and Academia, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The Professor Is In HAS Changed; You’re Not Imagining It

By Karen Kelsky | January 20, 2022

[This was posted originally on Facebook. See the original post here.] This is probably a good time to make something explicit that has been implicit for about a year now. I think academia is quite toxic for many - and actively sickifying … [Read more...] about The Professor Is In HAS Changed; You’re Not Imagining It

Filed Under: Advising Advice, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

Toxic Hope

By Karen Kelsky | December 10, 2021

This story was shared by a reader recently. They have given me permission to share it here anonymously. Rarely have I seen the sickness of the PhD apparatus so clearly articulated. "Toxic hope" is another way of saying Berlant's "cruel optimism" … [Read more...] about Toxic Hope

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Mental Health and Academia, Ph.D. Poverty, Quitting--An Excellent Option

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