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In the Knowledge Business, it's Important to Promote your Work
Posted: December 19, 2020For many of us in academia, there is discomfort in self-promotion. However, as academics, we are in a knowledge-building business. We may find self-fulfillment in simply doing our work,...
Metricize Me!
Posted: December 11, 2020Academia is in the middle of a quantification revolution. If you are a professor, academic researcher, or doctoral student, you have, by now, undoubtedly encountered any number of web...
What Does “Academia” Mean in 2020 and Beyond?
Posted: April 21, 2020academia/ˌakəˈdēmēə/Noun: the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship. Seemingly overnight, academia has been forced to take a good hard look...
Share your on-line teaching tools on Prof2Prof
Posted: March 21, 2020Many of us are in the midst of re-programming our teaching, research, and administrative roles in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Right now, there is guidance and advice coming from every...
Let's Try Something New
Posted: March 19, 2020As someone who has spent her entire career in academia, I have had the privilege of holding many different positions, including graduate student, adjunct instructor, research professor, assistant,...
Revisiting the Lost Opportunity
Posted: March 19, 2020I remember the first time I submitted a research paper to a peer-reviewed journal. It was in 1998, at the tail end of my doctoral studies at the University of Chicago. I had worked over the...