We have this idea that academia is a meritocracy, and that therefore good ideas and good work will be rewarded. But as Rachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee point out, a little self-promotion can go a long ways towards earning you that career promotion.
Damon Horowitz started as a technologist, then got his PhD in Philosophy, and is now the in-house philosopher at Google. That’s pretty cool.
If you’re feeling burnt out, a little faculty development can help.
Aesthetic.Vigelante thinks about how the value of professional activities intersects with class and opportunity for graduate students – and thus shapes careers.
How do you create a professional network? One person at a time.
Jason B. Jones gives us a roundup of recent articles that will help you understand faculty governance.
Interdisciplinary work, while valuable and wanted, often gets caught in institutional border disputes when it comes to tenure. USC has issued explicit tenure and promotion guidelines to avoid this.
Editor Kathryn Allan advises PhDs, especially in the humanities, to look beyond “research and writing” as important skills they bring to the table.
When did you start to notice the ways men and women in the academy are treated differently? Karen at TheProfessorIsIn talks about getting schooled on her own sexism.
Geekosystem gives us an infographic about some of the realities of graduate school. The most chilling for me was the number of PhDs granted vs. jobs created between 2004 and 2009.