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Covid & Conferences: What’s Left to Blog About?

By Guest Author | July 15, 2022

Natasha Casey holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from McGill University. She is professor of communication at Lincoln Land Community College (Springfield, Illinois) and affiliated faculty at the Media Education Lab (University of Rhode Island). … [Read more...] about Covid & Conferences: What’s Left to Blog About?

Filed Under: COVID19, How To Do Conferences, Work/Life Balance in Academia

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

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

The Unnecessary Shame of Leaving Academia – a Professor Is /Out/ Guest Post

By Guest Author | March 11, 2022

The author earned a PhD in public health and is a research scientist working in a patient-focused biotechnology organization. She transitioned to industry after leaving a full-time faculty position in a large research university. A couple of … [Read more...] about The Unnecessary Shame of Leaving Academia – a Professor Is /Out/ Guest Post

Filed Under: COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Quitting--An Excellent Option

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

The Great Resignation and Academic Gaslighting

By Karen Kelsky | January 19, 2022

Various twitter pundits are self-importantly stating that the Great Resignation will never hit academia, because nobody would give up an academic job.  17K members of the Professor Is Out Facebook private group would say otherwise, friends. Other … [Read more...] about The Great Resignation and Academic Gaslighting

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

Picket Lines – The Professor is Zen Guest Post III

By Guest Author | October 8, 2021

  by Esther Freinkel Tishman, PhD, BCC (she/her) Esther Freinkel Tishman, Ph.D, BCC is an ordained Zen teacher, a full-time interfaith chaplain, a scholar of archetypes and religion, and a certified mindfulness instructor. She is also a … [Read more...] about Picket Lines – The Professor is Zen Guest Post III

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, COVID19, Mental Health and Academia, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

Why Is It Always the Historians?

By Karen Kelsky | October 4, 2021

"Why is it always the historians?" I muttered to myself after another little dustup on Twitter, another historian posting some jaunty, gaslighting, evasive, disaster-normalizing, "fellow-historians, give me your best advice for advisees applying to … [Read more...] about Why Is It Always the Historians?

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Graduate Student Concerns, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

#NotDyingToTeach

By Karen Kelsky | September 29, 2021

#NotDyingToTeach #ProfessorIsOut I spend a lot of time on Twitter and these days, you can't go a day without seeing another academic--often a tenured prof--announcing their departure from academia. We really are in a Great Resignation. While I have … [Read more...] about #NotDyingToTeach

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

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