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

Inside Higher Ed offers a look at switching from academia to teaching at a private high school.

Frank Donoghue argues that the academy isn’t in crisis – and suggesting it is is to conflate the humanities with the whole.

How do you move beyond an interview that doesn’t lead to an offer?

What is the responsibility of academics to bring their work to the wider world?

A scholar describes the experience of not earning tenure and restarting her career. Part 1.

Timothy Burke explores incentives for faculty.

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

There were lots of responses to the anonymous “Because” author I linked last week. A twice-tenured full professor writes “Because No System Defines Me” in response.

Scholars at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting describe higher ed as “in crisis,” largely because of the “ideology and analytical tools of business.”

A scholar argues we need to do more to provide professional development to graduate students.

Alexandra Lord argues that one solution to the job market crisis is to ask the advice of PhD’s employed outside of academia.

A new study demonstrates that the service gender gap is most pronounced at the associate level.

Advice for writing the job application letter.

Workplace benefits for parenting need more people to take advantage of them.

Dr. Crazy gives us her take on why attending the MLA is a good idea even if you aren’t interviewing.

Tenured Radical offers advice on reading teaching evaluations.

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 New York Times asks whether law school is a losing game – and it sounds a lot like the rest of the graduate school universe: high debt, no jobs, screwy numbers.

Discipline matters. The number of history jobs has continued to drop, while the number of econ jobs has recovered. English and foreign languages don’t get any worse – but they were pretty bad to begin with.

DePaul University is in an uproar over a pattern of denying tenure to minority scholars.

Recent interdisciplinary successes in solving problems in medicine and biotech are creating a new “convergence” science – which may yet shake up how disciplines work.

An anonymous manifesto on leaving academia.

Claire Potter offers suggestions on interviewing.

Is the US overeducated? Richard Vedder says yes.

While interdisciplinary work may be useful, there are important institutional and disciplinary barriers to it.

Dean Dad explains how to read salary ranges in academia.