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 already-questionable graduate program rankings from the National Research Council are now getting revised.

Some good questions to ask yourself about what matters to you as you finish a PhD and contemplate the academy.

Two academic professionals talk about what to consider in staying vs. going.

Part 3 of Madeline Li’s series narrating her tenure denial and subsequent hiring.

Tenured Radical offers some advice to adjuncts. Undine agrees.

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 (and last week!)

Thomas H. Benton (aka William Pannapacker) makes a cogent argument for why students are less engaged than professors might wish – or expect.

The American Education Research Association is releasing a new study that says there’s a gender gap in pay even after we taken into account that more men have been working in academia longer, that men and women choose to work at different kinds of institutions, and that productivity differs.

Networking as an academic is critical – and it doesn’t have to be smarmy.

Academic salaries in 2010-11 didn’t keep up with inflation.

Some advice for the campus visit (hint: it all counts).

The Chronicle of Higher Ed put out its 2011 Salary Explorer.

A graduate career consultant suggests ways faculty can support graduate students considering (freely or because of necessity) non-academic jobs.

A new study shows that academia has burnout levels that equal those of other service sectors.

Dr. Crazy has 10 suggestions for avoiding (or overcoming) burnout in academia.

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!

And, yeah. Apparently it’s Tuesday. C’est la vie.

What people were talking about this week

Best news ever! Jorge Chan’s (in)famous comic strip, “Piled Higher and Deeper,” is getting the movie treatment.

The visiting professorship is an interesting cross between adjuncting and tenure-track – with more weight towards the former. Eliza Woolf doesn’t like it much.

There’s a new profession in academe, and it’s called the research administrator.

Rena Kraut found out she wasn’t chosen for a tenure-track job on Facebook.

Jessica Quillin argues that academics have a lot of useful skills we tend to ignore.

What’s your career story? Everyone needs one.

Dean Dad talks about a common interview-killer: claiming to never change.

Tenured Radical has a cogent take on the move to dismantle tenure and other protections.

Notorious PhD offers some advice for presenting at conferences.

Dean Dad talks about whether community college alums have an edge on community college tenure-track jobs.