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September 6, 2010

Monday roundup

A weekly collection of interesting things I find around the web. Feel free to add more in the comments!

The Chronicle asked scholars what the next decade’s Big Idea would be. Here’s what they had to say.

Negotiating your “alternative academic” appointment — those jobs that are in the academy but not disciplinary. Think digital humanities and the like.

How to navigate graduate school in STEM fields if you’re a woman.

Just because people aren’t on the tenure track doesn’t mean they aren’t engaging with research.

Dr. Crazy takes all the rhetoric about reforming higher ed and starts putting it together to talk about how something might actually happen. In Part 1, she reviews the important stakeholders. Here, she reviews the different types of schools involved. Here, she adds the multiple arguments around graduate education.

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