(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
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From Tenure Track to Alt/Post-Ac – #Postac post by Cardozo
by Karen Cardozo Who needs Alt/Post-Ac services? It’s not always the demographic that you imagine. What began as a trickle last year has become (in my consulting practice, anyway) a full-blown trend. I am referring to a growing number of people … [Read more...] about From Tenure Track to Alt/Post-Ac – #Postac post by Cardozo
Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate – Fruscione #Postac post
by Joe Fruscione In the year since I left academia and began writing things for The Professor Is In, the biggest difference I’ve seen between the academic and post-ac worlds is the attitude toward collaboration. My experience collaborating in … [Read more...] about Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate – Fruscione #Postac post
How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference
This week the Daily Nous website has a marvelous post, Answers From Academic Publishers, devoted to advice on publishing an academic monograph solicited from actual editors from Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Routledge, and other major presses. It has an … [Read more...] about How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference
Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion
The book inches closer to actually existing in the material world (August 4)! It has gotten some lovely blurbs by amazing people, like this one by the inimitable Rebecca Schuman: “If you would like your academic career to begin in delusion and end … [Read more...] about Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion
The “I Believe” Statement, Post-Ac Edition – Langer #Postac Post
By Jessica Langer You wouldn't believe the number of cover letters I see - both in my work here at TPII and as a hiring manager who hires employees and freelancers for my agency - that include some variation of the statement "I believe I am an … [Read more...] about The “I Believe” Statement, Post-Ac Edition – Langer #Postac Post
The Book
One of The Best-Selling Academic Advising Titles on Amazon about $10 "I keep your book in my bag at all times, and am so grateful that you're out there as a resource. The job market is lonely, and devastating; your book has made it more bearable. … [Read more...] about The Book
How to Apply for a Dean Position (A Guest Post in the form of an interview)
The writer of this post is dean at a public liberal-arts-and-science college in the Midwest. S/he has spent a career in public higher education at comprehensive and baccalaureate campuses in a number of instructional and administrative … [Read more...] about How to Apply for a Dean Position (A Guest Post in the form of an interview)
Ask the Post-Acs: “What happens to my scholarly work after the transition?”
Occasionally the TPII Post-Ac Consultants put their heads together to respond to a particularly compelling question that arises in the course of their consultations with post-ac clients. Today, they share their thoughts on the question of publishing … [Read more...] about Ask the Post-Acs: “What happens to my scholarly work after the transition?”
EnGendering Confidence: Part 2 – Cardozo
by Karen Cardozo In my last post I talked about an endemic lack of confidence as the structured byproduct of academic training – one that reveals itself most clearly at the point when PhDs contemplate changing careers. In an interdisciplinary … [Read more...] about EnGendering Confidence: Part 2 – Cardozo