I am regularly asked "can I negotiate my offer when it's my only offer?" People constantly seem to think you need multiple offers to have leverage. This is not true. For the vast majority of schools, you can and should negotiate your offer. The … [Read more...] about Can I Negotiate? Advice For All, Especially International Ph.D.s
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My Top Five Tips for Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book–A Special Request Post
This is a repost from 2011. Today is another Special Request Post. This one is from Maria, who asks, do I have a template (like my Foolproof Grant Template) for turning a dissertation into a book? No, Maria, I do not. The process of turning the … [Read more...] about My Top Five Tips for Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book–A Special Request Post
Ph.D. Debt Survey Revisited
Remember my Ph.D. Debt Survey (who could forget it?) -- my crowdsourced google spreadsheet from 2014, of volunteered reader debt information from their undergraduate and graduate studies? (It's still open--feel free to add your own info using the … [Read more...] about Ph.D. Debt Survey Revisited
Post-Ac or Academic Ronin – Postac Guest Post
by Robert Oprisko While in graduate school, you "count." You hold an active affiliation with an R1 university, you are assumed to be capable to teach undergraduate students at said R1 university, and your potential is unlimited. Once you … [Read more...] about Post-Ac or Academic Ronin – Postac Guest Post
Data Point, Data Point, Data Point…
Sometimes I hear reactions to The Professor Is In, that my level of attention to details and minutiae (everything from what kind of bag you carry to where your voice rises in your delivery of a sentence) is excessive--even anal or obsessive. … [Read more...] about Data Point, Data Point, Data Point…
How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference
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
So You Have an Idea for an App? (#Postac Guest Post)
by Dr. Sean Miller Co-founder, Ivy League Edge drsean@ivyleagueedge.com http://ivyleagueedge.com In a recent post on the The Professor Is In, Margy Horton described a conversation she had with a group of humanities PhDs about entrepreneurship. … [Read more...] about So You Have an Idea for an App? (#Postac Guest Post)
What Not To Do at Your Campus Visit
Today I share some remarks by a tenured client, who just completed a search at her department, and wrote to tell me about it: "We just finished doing a job search here and an offer has been made. I wanted to share with you something the last … [Read more...] about What Not To Do at Your Campus Visit
Buy My Book!
Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form--only $11.40! Available for pre-order now--comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For bulk orders for use … [Read more...] about Buy My Book!
EnGendering Confidence: Part 2 – Cardozo
by Karen Cardozo In my last post I talked about an endemic lack of confidence as the structured byproduct of academic training – one that reveals itself most clearly at the point when PhDs contemplate changing careers. In an interdisciplinary … [Read more...] about EnGendering Confidence: Part 2 – Cardozo