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What people were talking about this week

A writing group is one way to give yourself the structure to write despite all of the other work on your plate. Claire Curtis explains how to do it.

As soon as you’re contacted by a school, the interview is beginning. Here’s how to play it.

Phone interviews aren’t quite the same as face to face interviews. Here’s some advice.

Applicants to regional public universities often make the same mistakes in their applications.

History professor William Cronon’s emails have been requested in a FOIA by Wisconsin politicos – this has been all over the news and blogosphere. Girl Scholar, Notorious PhD has the best rundown and links.

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

How to negotiate during the job process.

Sally Racket comes to terms with just how much work a job search takes – and the survivor’s guilt that came along when she finally got the brass ring.

How being an academic readies you for entrepreneurship.

Teaching, scholarship, and service are important for work in Student Affairs.

Dr. Crazy talks about life with a 4/4 teaching load – and she points out that there are far more tenure-track positions that look like hers than there are tenure-track positions with lighter teaching loads and heavier research loads.

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 median salary for public-higher-education faculty was stagnant for the second year in a row. Private-school faculty saw a small median increase.

Lennard Davis offers his strategies for helping his graduate students position themselves well for the job market.

A panel at the American Council of Education said a large number of faculty are set to retire over the next decade, but they may not go willlingly. Where have we heard that one before?

A former acquisitions editor at a scholarly press talks about the often-ignored importance of writing to getting your book published.

Although women earn slightly more than 50% of the PhDs in the US, they make up less than half of senior faculty and significantly more than half of adjunct faculty.

Advice on writing academic cover letters.

Tenured Radical thinks about networking in academia.