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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 … Continue reading
Category Archives: Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student
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 … Continue reading
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 form)* It’s … Continue reading
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 graduate, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 eye to … Continue reading
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. One participant asked whether Margy, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading