A weekly
collection of interesting things I find around the Internet. Find something I didn’t? I’d love to hear about it the comments!
What people were talking about this week
The Michigan Board of Regents changed a bylaw to extend the “maximum allowable pre-tenure probationary period” available to member institutions. In other words, schools can set their tenure clock to anything up to 10 years.
A look into what journal editors do.
Apparently the paranoia induced in grad students by the grad school experience might even be helpful. (Perhaps true for only specific values of “helpful”?)
Advice for landing an online teaching position.
Tenured Radical highlights an article that calls out the high levels of stress and low levels of self-care common to assistant professors specifically and professors more generally.
Dr. Crazy argues that, in spite of the long-standing trope of the liberal professoriate, it’s a pretty conservative position.
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