Monday Roundup

A weekly collection of great stuff I find as I read around the web. If you’ve read something fabulous, leave it in the comments!

Leaving a Job Gracefully, by Heather M. Whitney. Step by step instructions for leaving one academic job for another gracefully and with as few missteps as possible. Via the Prof Hacker blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Stephen C. Stearn’s “Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students.” Be warned, it’s a little … blunt, and it’s geared mostly to science students. Still, he dishes out some good big-picture advice.

CHE reports on the struggle adjuncts face to get unemployment benefits when they aren’t rehired.

Eliza Woolf’s tale of botching a non-academic interview for an editorial assistant position, from Insider Higher Ed. They only seem less challenging than academic ones.

Three national groups of historians have agreed to guidelines that would open the tenure process beyond the monograph for public historians.

One scholars studies faculty burnout and suggests there are multiple factors, one of which is high expectations scholars set for themselves.

Another article on the same research reveals that non-tenured tenure-track faculty are more burned out than their tenured or non-tenure-track peers.

Carolyn Foster Segal was invited to write an inspirational book about being at the top of the academic heap, but she refused. This article explains why — she wasn’t comfortable encouraging people to follow a calling when the likelihood of it turning into a tenure-track job was so slim.

The title says it all: “The Fantasy of the Faculty Vacation.”

The reality of being a female science professor: less respect, less money, more surreal conversations with peers who think you couldn’t possibly be the researcher in question.

Rob Jenkins offers some sage advice about succeeding in the community college job search.

Michael Bérubé, second Vice President of the MLA, responds to a letter asking whether the writer should go to graduate school. While he doesn’t say yes or no, his articulate response leans towards no.