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“So You Want to Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities”

By Karen Kelsky | July 12, 2011

This video makes all other posts on graduate school obsolete. That doesn't mean I'll stop posting, though. (Thanks to Leaving Academia blog http://www.leavingacademia.com) … [Read more...] about “So You Want to Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities”

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: advice for grad students in humanities, Don't go to graduate school, grad school humor, graduate school in the humanities, no jobs after graduate school, the folly of graduate school

How-To(sday): How to Write a Paper or Conference Proposal Abstract

By Karen Kelsky | July 12, 2011

Tuesdays I will occasionally feature "How-To(sday)" posts,  short  guides to certain genres of academic writing.  I'm happy to take requests for these. Just email me at gettenure@gmail.com. Today we look at the paper/conference … [Read more...] about How-To(sday): How to Write a Paper or Conference Proposal Abstract

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing Tagged With: how to write a proposal, how to write an abstract, humanities abstract, humanities paper proposal, writing an abstract

What is Assertiveness, for Women?

By Karen Kelsky | July 8, 2011

(Friday Post Category: Yes, You Can: Women in Academia) I get so frustrated when I see the female students and colleagues I work with sabotage themselves and undermine their own authority and effectiveness because of an inability to be assertive. … [Read more...] about What is Assertiveness, for Women?

Filed Under: Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: assertiveness training exercise, body language of women, coaching women success, definition of assertiveness, female self assertiveness, graduate school aid, playing with hair body language, submissive female body language, teaching women to be self confident, top 5 mistakes for women, what is body language, women and tenure, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school, women workplace body language, women workplace help

Hooray for Elite White Men! External Reviewers for Tenure

By Karen Kelsky | July 7, 2011

(Thursday Post Category: How to Get Tenure) Today let's talk about your external reviewers for tenure. First, since this blog is new, my credentials. In my 15 years as a faculty member at two major research institutions, I worked on 6 tenure cases. … [Read more...] about Hooray for Elite White Men! External Reviewers for Tenure

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: gender and tenure, getting help with tenure, how to choose external reviewers for tenure, how to get tenure, tenure is sexist, what are external review letters in tenure?, what is a strong tenure case?, what is an external reviewer?, women and tenure

Dr. Karen’s Foolproof Grant Template

By Karen Kelsky | July 5, 2011

NOTE: An expanded and updated version of this post can now be found in Chapter  51 of my new book, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job. I am keeping a shortened version here, but for the complete discussion … [Read more...] about Dr. Karen’s Foolproof Grant Template

Filed Under: How to Get Grants and Fellowships, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing Tagged With: how to get funded, how to get funding, how to get grant money, how to get money for research, how to write a grant proposal, what goes in a grant proposal

Why You Must Never Ask Your TA for a Letter of Recommendation, Part One

By Karen Kelsky | July 1, 2011

In my work with undergraduate students helping them apply to graduate school, one of the biggest problems I encounter is the student's lack of appropriate people to write their letters of recommendation.  All too often the student will come in with a … [Read more...] about Why You Must Never Ask Your TA for a Letter of Recommendation, Part One

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: asking a TA for a letter of recommendation, Can TA write a letter of recommendation, How to get into graduate school, women succeeding in graduate school

Why You Must Never Ask Your TA for a Letter of Recommendation, Part Two

By Karen Kelsky | July 1, 2011

In an earlier post I explained the reasons that you must never ask your TA for letters of recommendation.  All of your letters must come from faculty, preferably full-time faculty in your major department or one closely affiliated . Now I'll discuss … [Read more...] about Why You Must Never Ask Your TA for a Letter of Recommendation, Part Two

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia

How Do You Write an Email or Letter to a Professor?

By Karen Kelsky | June 30, 2011

***Please note that I no longer respond to comments/questions to this post!  For additional help, see a list of individualized services to help you in your path to graduate school, and the Guidance Package, both offered below the post*** One of the … [Read more...] about How Do You Write an Email or Letter to a Professor?

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: How to deal with professors, How to get into graduate school, How to write a letter to a professor, How to write an email to a professor

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