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How to Ask Your Department To Pay for Professor Is In Help

By Karen Kelsky | May 26, 2023

Your department or college may be able to pay for your participation in ANY Professor Is In work, including our formal programs, as well as editing of your professionalization/job search/tenure documents. What follows is context and scripts for … [Read more...] about How to Ask Your Department To Pay for Professor Is In Help

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, How To Build Your Tenure File, Productivity, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

More Reader/Listener/Client Joy!

By Karen Kelsky | March 16, 2021

Presenting the latest in our series of Job Market Digest-slash-Client/Reader/Listener Joy!  Standout line: "you two are absolutely my queer, academia super heroes/ role models." ???????????????????????????????? You might remember, but due to the … [Read more...] about More Reader/Listener/Client Joy!

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, How To Build Your Tenure File, Marginalized Voices, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It

Why You Need (and Deserve) an Academic Coach

By Kel Weinhold | August 23, 2019

Getting published in academic journals is hard. Not only does it take the heavy lifting of research and writing, but grabbing the golden ring of a published article in a top journal also requires the knowledge to navigate the unwritten rules … [Read more...] about Why You Need (and Deserve) an Academic Coach

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Productivity, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Unstuck, Writing

Productivity Tuesday: It’s Not About Being a “Better” Worker

By Karen Kelsky | November 24, 2018

Testimonials from Unstuck participants: It is no exaggeration to state that Unstuck has changed my academic life. I was ready to leave academia as toxic working practices were taking over, and I had imported self-doubt and anxiety into my writing … [Read more...] about Productivity Tuesday: It’s Not About Being a “Better” Worker

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Productivity, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Unstuck, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

An Example Public R1 Departmental Tenure Timeline

By Karen Kelsky | June 25, 2018

Number 5 in my series on tenure. After my previous posts The Path and Timeline of Your Tenure File, and The Role of Your Tenure Committee and Department Head, a reader sent in a timeline document of the Department Head's duties in the tenure process … [Read more...] about An Example Public R1 Departmental Tenure Timeline

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It

The Role of Your Tenure Committee and Department Head

By Karen Kelsky | June 8, 2018

Continuing in the new series on tenure (this is #4, although I do have some earlier prior posts on the tenure process, all of which can be found in the "Tenure - How To Get It" Category) ----> Today I want to say a few words about the roles … [Read more...] about The Role of Your Tenure Committee and Department Head

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

Why Your Tenure Statement Sucks

By Karen Kelsky | May 20, 2018

The Professor Is In has been going for 7+ years now (!!) and lots of our job market clients from years back are now coming up on tenure!  I'm thrilled that so many are getting back in touch for help writing their tenure statements. But I'm horrified … [Read more...] about Why Your Tenure Statement Sucks

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How To Build Your Tenure File, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | January 20, 2017

By Patricia Matthew Patricia Matthew is an associate professor of English at Montclair State University.  She is writing a book about representations of the body and the discourse of disease and illness in Romantic-era fiction. She is the co-editor … [Read more...] about Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure – Guest Post

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Intersectional Analyses, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Academic CV

By Karen Kelsky | August 19, 2016

Please note this advice is continually checked and updated! Including for COVID. ~~~~~~~~ Today's post is a long overdue post on CVs.  While the CV genre permits a wide range of variation, and there is no consensus on the value … [Read more...] about Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Academic CV

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Writing Tagged With: how to write a cv, rules of the academic cv, what is a curriculum vitae

How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference

By Karen Kelsky | May 29, 2015

This week the Daily Nous website has a marvelous post, Answers From Academic Publishers, devoted to advice on publishing an academic monograph solicited from actual editors from Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Routledge, and other major presses.  It has an … [Read more...] about How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It Tagged With: Advice for first time authors, How to get a book contract, Pitching a book to an editor

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