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Q&A on Leaving Academia: Where Do I Start?

By Karen Kelsky | June 20, 2022

We're starting a new Q and A series on leaving academia.  Please send your questions to postaccareers@gmail.com! For more concrete help, join the Professor Is Out private FB group, and consider signing up for our new Art of Leaving self-directed … [Read more...] about Q&A on Leaving Academia: Where Do I Start?

Filed Under: Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Rearview Mirror

Just One Thing: Investigate your thoughts!

By Kel Weinhold | June 7, 2022

Welcome again to my weekly series Just One Thing. Each week, I offer you just one thing you can practice each day that will improve your creative output. The topic I want to deal with in the next few posts is what American psychologist Albert Ellis … [Read more...] about Just One Thing: Investigate your thoughts!

Filed Under: Productivity, Unstuck, Writing

Ableism and the “Post-Pandemic” Rollback of Extensions 

By Guest Author | June 6, 2022

by Holly Genovese Holly Genovese is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at UT Austin, with graduate portfolios in both Black Studies and Women's and Gender Studies. Her work focuses on African American aesthetic resistance to incarceration in the … [Read more...] about Ableism and the “Post-Pandemic” Rollback of Extensions 

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, COVID19, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Demos

Just One Thing: Embrace your mistakes

By Kel Weinhold | May 31, 2022

Welcome again, to my new Just One Thing series. Each week, I offer you just one thing you can practice each day that will improve your creative output. Today's JOT practice: Embrace your mistakes. Yep. You read it right. I am asking you to … [Read more...] about Just One Thing: Embrace your mistakes

Filed Under: Productivity, Unstuck

Building an Academic Wardrobe Secondhand

By Guest Author | May 27, 2022

By Rebecca Rice Bio: Dr. Rebecca Rice is an assistant professor who blogs over at PhD in Clothes, where she discusses professional clothing, thrifting, and academic productivity. You can also find her outfits on Instagram. … [Read more...] about Building an Academic Wardrobe Secondhand

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Adjunct Issues, Makeup, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Practical Steps for Transitioning to a Career in Academic Editing

By Guest Author | May 20, 2022

by Cara Jordan, PhD Bio: Cara Jordan has a PhD in art history from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She began working as a freelance editor in 2008 and established Flatpage, an editorial agency and publishing house, in 2015. She is president and chief … [Read more...] about Practical Steps for Transitioning to a Career in Academic Editing

Filed Under: Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Just One Thing: Ask What Worked

By Kel Weinhold | May 17, 2022

Welcome again, to my new Just One Thing series. Each week, I offer you just one thing you can practice each day that will improve your creative output. As a newsletter subscriber, they come to you first! Today's JOT is a practice I call "W to the … [Read more...] about Just One Thing: Ask What Worked

Filed Under: Productivity, Unstuck, Writing

Just One Thing: Rewrite Your Stories

By Kel Weinhold | May 3, 2022

Welcome to my new productivity series: Just One Thing. Each Tuesday, I will share  just one thing that you can do to move your work forward. The thing I want to talk to you today about is rewriting stories. In particular, the stories we tell … [Read more...] about Just One Thing: Rewrite Your Stories

Filed Under: Productivity, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Unstuck, Writing

Is the Search Committee Ghosting You?

By Karen Kelsky | April 25, 2022

I get asked questions like the following about once a week. "I recently completed an interview for a TT job. Everything went well — they spoke to my references, I did a teaching demo. It’s now been over a month and I’ve heard absolutely nothing … [Read more...] about Is the Search Committee Ghosting You?

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Karen Is a Grifter *Free Starter Pack*

By Karen Kelsky | April 24, 2022

Since the grifter thing arose again this week with my discovery of the (now apparently defunct) @ProfessorGrift account  - made by some unnamed historian and devoted to trolling me -  I want to provide this free public service.  Historians (and the … [Read more...] about Karen Is a Grifter *Free Starter Pack*

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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