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Work/Life Balance in Academia

Cancer on the Tenure Track – an invited guest post

By Karen Kelsky | October 3, 2016

By Martha Lincoln, Ph.D. Earlier this spring, I got hired to a tenure-track position at my dream department. After some celebrating, I started to strategize for the next steps of my career. I took a webinar with Dr. Karen - Surviving Your … [Read more...] about Cancer on the Tenure Track – an invited guest post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

#JobMarketRitual – Guest Post by Kellee Weinhold

By Kel Weinhold | September 23, 2016

by Kellee Weinhold, TPII Productivity Coach and Interview Intervention Coach One of the remnants of my life as a journalism professor is attending to the success and failure of advertising campaigns. I wasn’t in the field of advertising, but many … [Read more...] about #JobMarketRitual – Guest Post by Kellee Weinhold

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

“You’re so Lucky…” and the Job Market – An Anonymous Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | May 27, 2016

An anonymous guest post.  Read this in conjunction with the piece that just came out this week on Chronicle Vitae, "The 'Joy' of Pregnancy in Graduate School."  I think it relates more broadly to the larger hostility to the idea of "wellness" also, … [Read more...] about “You’re so Lucky…” and the Job Market – An Anonymous Guest Post

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Intersectional Analyses, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Dance, Dance, Revolution

By Karen Kelsky | April 15, 2016

Years ago, the gender studies program at my university hosted a Latin American female hip hop group, who gave a roundtable on women and rap in Latin America on campus, and then a live concert.  The roundtable was great, but I'll never, to the day I … [Read more...] about Dance, Dance, Revolution

Filed Under: Mental Health and Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Work-Life Balance? Post 1 of Many

By Karen Kelsky | January 30, 2016

This was originally posted in 2011. As you can see from the title, at the time I expected to write a lot more posts about work-life balance. I'm just getting to that now, in 2016! Since opening The Professor Is In, the question I've been most … [Read more...] about Work-Life Balance? Post 1 of Many

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: tenure track and overworked, why do professors work so hard, work life balance, working too hard

Is the Academy Good?

By Karen Kelsky | December 11, 2015

I've had two huge changes in my life in the past two years.  The first is, I've started dancing in earnest. The second is, I've started meditating.  These have both completely transformed my life.  Dancing has allowed me to move from my brain (the … [Read more...] about Is the Academy Good?

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Mental Health and Academia, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing

The Genuine Job Search (Out-Ac post by Karen Cardozo)

By Karen Kelsky | November 25, 2015

by Karen Cardozo If you’ve been following my posts, you know that I am a major proponent of a both/and approach. This proclivity emerges in my bio as an interdisciplinary or, more precisely, an undisciplined scholar: through years of academic … [Read more...] about The Genuine Job Search (Out-Ac post by Karen Cardozo)

Filed Under: Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Heroic Mother Teaches Class With Sick Child – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | October 5, 2015

(This is not a post-ac post, as I normally put up on Mondays.  But it's a great guest post and I wanted to share it right away.) It's by Stephanie Brown. Stephanie is cultural anthropologist and adjunct instructor in the Department of Human … [Read more...] about Heroic Mother Teaches Class With Sick Child – Guest Post

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Making Good Choices in an Ugly Time

By Karen Kelsky | June 19, 2015

It a brutally ugly time to be an American.  I am enraged, furious, heartbroken, grief-stricken at the racist mass murder at AME Church in Charleston, and at the shameful, hateful, self-serving denial of racism as motive by the media and white … [Read more...] about Making Good Choices in an Ugly Time

Filed Under: Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

Buy My Book!

By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2015

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!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, Tenure--How To Get It, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

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