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Work/Life Balance in Academia

Always Have a Side Hustle, and Other Lessons I Learned from Academia (Part 2) – WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | August 25, 2018

I am delighted to offer this guest post contributed in response to my recent call for contributions to the blog by black women and other women of color. I am still enthusiastically welcoming draft posts and ideas/pitches - send them to me at … [Read more...] about Always Have a Side Hustle, and Other Lessons I Learned from Academia (Part 2) – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Women of Color in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

A Provost Leaves Academia, Part IV – The Transition

By Karen Kelsky | August 1, 2018

This is the fourth and final installment in the #Postac series, "A Provost Leaves Academia," by Dr. Terri Givens. Dr. Terri Givens is a consultant in higher ed, and soon to be former provost at Menlo College. She has been a professor at the … [Read more...] about A Provost Leaves Academia, Part IV – The Transition

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Recovering My Creativity Through Unstuck – Guest Post by Dr. Verena Hutter

By Karen Kelsky | July 20, 2018

TPII Editor Extraordinaire Dr. Verena Hutter shares her wonderful experience recovering a part of herself she thought was lost, through our Unstuck Productivity Program. In honor of Verena and her pens, we are extending the sign up for the new … [Read more...] about Recovering My Creativity Through Unstuck – Guest Post by Dr. Verena Hutter

Filed Under: Productivity, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Unstuck, Work/Life Balance in Academia

Distortions, Dramas, and Myths: Or, How to Tell The Truth About Your Writing

By Kel Weinhold | March 30, 2018

Consider this… The things you tell yourself about your writing are not truth. They are stories. And the wonderful thing about stories, is that you can rewrite them. The entire reason I started Professor Is In in 2011 was to demystify the academy … [Read more...] about Distortions, Dramas, and Myths: Or, How to Tell The Truth About Your Writing

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Productivity, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Unstuck, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Productivity Tuesday: Why Would You Trust a Liar?

By Kel Weinhold | September 26, 2017

By Kel Weinhold, TPII Productivity Coach Welcome to the Productivity Post! Each(ish) Tuesday, I share some of the ideas and strategies that inform my coaching in UNSTUCK: The Art of Productivity. Sometimes, I even record a coaching session! (This … [Read more...] about Productivity Tuesday: Why Would You Trust a Liar?

Filed Under: Productivity, Shame, Unstuck, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing

Careering Toward Authenticity – #Postac Post by Karen Cardozo

By Karen Kelsky | September 4, 2017

by Karen Cardozo Here is a sentence I never thought I’d say: I was tenured and promoted (in April 2017, to Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts). Now, here is another I never … [Read more...] about Careering Toward Authenticity – #Postac Post by Karen Cardozo

Filed Under: Intersectional Analyses, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

I Want to Talk To You About Protesting

By Karen Kelsky | July 28, 2017

[This is an update that I posted on my personal Facebook page on July 25, slightly edited.] I want to talk to you all about protesting. I want you to understand how powerful it is to stand on the sidewalk every week on Resist Trump Tuesday (so far, … [Read more...] about I Want to Talk To You About Protesting

Filed Under: Work/Life Balance in Academia

Productivity: Not So Happy Feelings

By Kel Weinhold | July 25, 2017

By Kel Weinhold, TPII Productivity Coach Welcome to the Productivity Post and Podcast! Each Tuesday, I post a short blog post and recorded coaching session. This week’s post is courtesy of a current UNSTUCK: The Art of Productivity participant, who … [Read more...] about Productivity: Not So Happy Feelings

Filed Under: Productivity, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Academia as Identity – a UK/US Comparison

By Karen Kelsky | May 26, 2017

Kellee and I have done speaking tours in the UK for two years now, and the time we spent there has been immensely valuable for us, in learning what parts of the academic experience are shared between the UK and the US, and what parts diverge.  There … [Read more...] about Academia as Identity – a UK/US Comparison

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

Rethinking Rejection – by Karen Cardozo

By Karen Kelsky | April 17, 2017

By Karen Cardozo A recent Chronicle article on how to survive rejection linked to a blog post urging writers to aim for 100 rejections a year.  How (existentially) low can you go?!  This method of throwing literary spaghetti at the wall … [Read more...] about Rethinking Rejection – by Karen Cardozo

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

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