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The Perils of Publishing Your Dissertation Online

By Karen Kelsky | August 24, 2011

[July 2019 Update below by Jacqueline Barlow, Open Access Officer at The University of Winchester in Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom--please read] Today we are honored to have a guest post by Kathryn Hume, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English … [Read more...] about The Perils of Publishing Your Dissertation Online

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It

Finding Work/Life Balance in Academia

By Karen Kelsky | August 19, 2011

(Friday Post Category:  Yes You Can! Women and Academia) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our post today is a guest post by Rachel Connelly, Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics, and Chair of the Economics Department … [Read more...] about Finding Work/Life Balance in Academia

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: having kids on the tenure track, women and tenure, work life balance with kids

Job Market PTSD

By Karen Kelsky | August 18, 2011

(Thursday Post Category:  Here's How You Get Tenure) Today's post is another Special Request post, this time coming from Kate, who wrote an eloquent email asking for advice on how to cope with what I will call “Job Market PTSD.” By Job Market PTSD … [Read more...] about Job Market PTSD

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: academic job market help, dealing with job market trauma, how to survive the academic job market

How To Work the Conference, Part One of Three

By Karen Kelsky | August 17, 2011

(Wednesday Post Category:  Landing Your Tenure Track Job) [This is the first in a two-part series on Working the National Conference. Part One, today, explains the importance of the conference in an academic career. Part Two, next week, focuses on … [Read more...] about How To Work the Conference, Part One of Three

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

How Not to F**k Up Your Conference Interview

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2011

(Monday Post Category:  Getting You Into and Out of Graduate School) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [Today's post is an excerpt from "Taming The Academic Job Market: The Professor's Guide."  The Guide is on sale in The … [Read more...] about How Not to F**k Up Your Conference Interview

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: how to prepare for the conference interview, how to rock the conference interview, preparing for your conference interview, the conference interview, what should I do for a conference interview

Thoughts On Throwing In the Towel

By Karen Kelsky | August 12, 2011

Today's promised post is another Special Request post, at the behest of a number of readers, about knowing when to “throw in the towel,” or, in the words of one requester, “knowing when to fold 'em,” on an academic career. I am totally unqualified … [Read more...] about Thoughts On Throwing In the Towel

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: giving up on an academic career, should I give up on an academic job?, the academic job market, the tenure track job market, when to quit the academic job market, when to quit trying for a tenure track job

Negotiating Your Tenure-Track Offer(s)

By Karen Kelsky | August 10, 2011

(Wednesday Post Category:  Getting Your Tenure-Track Job) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [Today's post is an excerpt from "Taming The Academic Job Market: The Professor's Guide."  The Guide is on sale in The Prof … [Read more...] about Negotiating Your Tenure-Track Offer(s)

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: academic job offer, getting a tenure track job, How to land a tenure track job, negotiating the tenure track job, tenure track job offer, the best academic jobs

Challenges for Graduate Students of Color in the Academy

By Karen Kelsky | August 9, 2011

You're probably looking at the title, and then at my photo, and thinking, “Isn't she white?” Yes. Yes, I am white. I was never a graduate student of color in the academy. So, my insights are limited, and I don't present myself as an expert on this … [Read more...] about Challenges for Graduate Students of Color in the Academy

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It Tagged With: challenges by people of color to the academy, graduate students of color, race in the academy, racial conflict in departments

How To Fire a Professor

By Karen Kelsky | August 8, 2011

Today's post is a Special Request post. This one is for Jenn, who asks, “how do you replace one professor with another on your committee?” This is a delicate matter, as I'm sure Jenn is aware. There are all kinds of reasons that committee members … [Read more...] about How To Fire a Professor

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Humanities Graduate School: Go? Don’t Go? What’s a Would-Be Ph.D. To Do?

By Karen Kelsky | August 1, 2011

William Pannapacker has published, over the last several years, a number of widely influential pieces in the Chronicle of Higher Education and, this past week, in Slate, criticizing the ethics and economics of graduate programs in the humanities. His … [Read more...] about Humanities Graduate School: Go? Don’t Go? What’s a Would-Be Ph.D. To Do?

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: A response to pannapacker, graduate school in the humanities, Is graduate school a good choice, Jsench response, Just don't go, William Pannapacker

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