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Bad Advisors and Good Mentors

Academia Is the Grift, Part II: Reader Voices

By Karen Kelsky | October 13, 2020

The grifter accusations popped up again on social media last week. Find one post here and then scroll up and down for a bit more commentary about it.  I still need to write the blog post that unpacks all of that and what it says about the … [Read more...] about Academia Is the Grift, Part II: Reader Voices

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

How Sociology (Re)Produces Racist Policing – #BLM Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | June 8, 2020

[We continue to solicit #BLM guest posts. We pay $150 for accepted posts. 1000 words ballpark; profanity welcome. Please send a draft or query/pitch to Karen at gettenure@gmail.com] By Amber Hamilton. Amber M. Hamilton is a PhD Candidate in the … [Read more...] about How Sociology (Re)Produces Racist Policing – #BLM Guest Post

Filed Under: #Resistance, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Black Lives Matter, Racism in the Academy, Women of Color in Academia

Tenured Faculty Member Says Quiet Part Out Loud

By Karen Kelsky | May 1, 2020

Prof. Kimberly Hoang, tenured faculty in Sociology at U of Chicago, looked out at a global pandemic and total collapse of higher ed hiring, and decided to write this (find original here; bolding added) Just five weeks ago, the world was a … [Read more...] about Tenured Faculty Member Says Quiet Part Out Loud

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Coronavirus, COVID19, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

#Dispatches From the Front – Help, I Have a Toxic Advisor! Part I: Firing Your Advisor, Building Your Team

By Karen Kelsky | February 17, 2020

In our new Dispatches series, we crowdsource responses to questions we see about the academic job market and career. This week, the question is: “Help, I have a toxic advisor/PI? What can I do? What have other people done in this … [Read more...] about #Dispatches From the Front – Help, I Have a Toxic Advisor! Part I: Firing Your Advisor, Building Your Team

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Dispatches

Interview with Karen Kaplan, Senior Careers Editor at Nature

By Karen Kelsky | September 6, 2019

Karen Kaplan reached out to share thoughts on the academic job market. We had a great conversation and I learned a lot about STEM career paths which I am already bringing to clients and audiences. Then, she kindly allowed me to persuade her to do … [Read more...] about Interview with Karen Kaplan, Senior Careers Editor at Nature

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Anthropology’s Alternative Facts

By Karen Kelsky | January 12, 2019

After attending the AAA and AAR meetings, I wrote a blog post called A Tale of Two Conferences. In it, I bemoaned the sorry state of the AAA's engagement with issues of real-life (as opposed to academic jargon) precarity and the scandal of … [Read more...] about Anthropology’s Alternative Facts

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

What Is Free? Elitism and University Careers Advising

By Karen Kelsky | November 29, 2018

I wrote last week about my good times at the American Academy of Religion conference. And it was indeed a very good time. But there was one incident that I can’t stop thinking about, and I want to share it here. Because, it gets at the elitism that … [Read more...] about What Is Free? Elitism and University Careers Advising

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors

Feminist Elites and Patriarchal Solidarity – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

By Karen Kelsky | August 31, 2018

By TPII Editor Dr. Maggie Levantovskaya As an editor at The Professor Is In, I have closely followed #MeTooPhD movement started by Karen Kelsky. She coined the hashtag and opened a crowdsourcing survey to give the opportunity to people who … [Read more...] about Feminist Elites and Patriarchal Solidarity – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

Filed Under: #MeTooPhD, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Sexual Harassment in the Academy, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

A TPII Alum Gives a Commencement Address!

By Karen Kelsky | June 21, 2018

I am so pleased to share this Commencement Address given this year at the Ellis School, by one of the earliest TPII clients: Dr. Jessica Hammer. To see someone I worked with go from applying for her first job to delivering a commencement address... … [Read more...] about A TPII Alum Gives a Commencement Address!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Academic Gatekeeping 101: A Master Class – Post by Rebecca Schuman

By Karen Kelsky | April 2, 2018

[Update 4/2/18 8 PM Pacific:  The tenured scholar demanded a correction over on Rebecca Schuman's blog about the nature of the journal referenced in this post, and requested I follow suit; the nature of this demand is spelled out by the scholar in a … [Read more...] about Academic Gatekeeping 101: A Master Class – Post by Rebecca Schuman

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Quitting--An Excellent Option

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