Jennifer van Alstyne is a communications strategist for faculty and researchers. At The Academic Designer LLC, Jennifer helps people and organizations share their work with the world in online spaces. Her blog/podcast, The Social Academic shares … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Social Media Helped Me as a WOC, and Tips for You – WOC Guest post
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Dispatches From the Front: Dealing with a Difficult Dean/Chair
Welcome to our inaugural Dispatches From the Frontlines - our new weekly advice post based on the crowdsourced wisdom of our wonderful readers! Each Monday, we crowdsource a question we get from a reader on Facebook and Twitter with a link to a … [Read more...] about Dispatches From the Front: Dealing with a Difficult Dean/Chair
How To Get Your Department to Pay for Productivity Support
This is part of a previous post on how to get your department to fund your participation in Unstuck: The Art of Productivity and The Art of the Academic Article, but you can use it to ask for any kind of professional development or program … [Read more...] about How To Get Your Department to Pay for Productivity Support
Knowing When to Leave: Lessons from an Academically Unaffiliated Life – WOC Guest Post
I am delighted to offer another guest post contributed in response to my recent call for contributions to the blog by Black women and other women of color. If you’d like to submit a post or an idea for a post for consideration, email me at … [Read more...] about Knowing When to Leave: Lessons from an Academically Unaffiliated Life – WOC Guest Post
Starting A #PostAc Business: Guest Post by TPII Coach Ricky Graham
Part III in a Three Part Series on the Post-ac Transition in Creative Fields, by TPII Post-ac coach, Dr. Ricky Graham. Be sure and read parts I and II also! I am a guitarist, music producer and former academic from Northern Ireland. I received my … [Read more...] about Starting A #PostAc Business: Guest Post by TPII Coach Ricky Graham
Always Have a Side Hustle, and Other Lessons I Learned from Academia – WOC Guest Post
I am delighted to offer another guest post contributed in response to my recent call for contributions to the blog by black women and other women of color. Dr. Nneka D. Dennie is a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting … [Read more...] about Always Have a Side Hustle, and Other Lessons I Learned from Academia – WOC Guest Post
Hustle to Get Paid – #Postac Guest Post by TPII Coach Ricky Graham
Part II in a Three Part Series on the Post-ac Transition in Creative Fields, by TPII Post-ac coach, Dr. Ricky Graham I am a guitarist, music producer and former academic from Northern Ireland. I received my PhD from Ulster University in 2012 and I … [Read more...] about Hustle to Get Paid – #Postac Guest Post by TPII Coach Ricky Graham
Negotiating As Therapy
Negotiating Assistance is some of my favorite work. I love it when clients prevail and get jobs, but mostly what I love is to help them over that final hump of asking for what they deserve, and putting a monetary price tag on their own value. This … [Read more...] about Negotiating As Therapy
Know These Things Before Negotiating
Yesterday I led the first Negotiating webinar of this academic year; I'm already deep in Negotiating Assistance help, which started in earnest in December. Each year that I have offered this help, I've noticed that the timeline of offers has moved … [Read more...] about Know These Things Before Negotiating
The Job Search is Not a Striptease
One of my pet peeves in job documents is when the job candidate coyly gestures toward a research conclusion, without actually coming out and saying what the conclusion is. I have no idea why so many job seekers are so invested in this coyness. The … [Read more...] about The Job Search is Not a Striptease