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What is Engaged Scholarship and How Can it Improve your Research?
Posted: January 4, 2022Here is the link to the Inside Higher Ed website where the blog is posted: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/rethinking-research/what-engaged-scholarship-and-how-can-it-improve-your-research...
What is a "Fully Funded" Doctoral Program?
Posted: October 23, 2021I hear people using the term “fully funded” in relation to doctoral programs. As in, “I was accepted into a PhD program with full funding!” What this means in practice, though...
13 things I wish someone had told me when I was an early career scholar
Posted: October 22, 2021I’m in my 21st year as a professor at a research-intensive public university in the U.S. Despite the fact that I have decades of experience inside academia, knowledge about “how things...
Sift and Winnow....and a Few Other Steps
Posted: March 6, 2021 “Sifting and winnowing,” a phrase originating from a university committee’s defense of a late 19th century professor who held views at odds with a key state political figure (...
Making the Clouds Part
Posted: March 6, 2021Not too long ago, when my kids were 6 and 11, I recall a conversation we had about their interest in possible careers when they grow up. My youngest was intent on becoming an NBA star, while my...
The Academic Value Chain Starts with Professors
Posted: March 6, 2021Wikipedia tells us that a “value chain is a set of activities that a firm operating in a specific industry performs in order to deliver a valuable product or service for the market....
Revisiting the Lost Opportunity
Posted: March 6, 2021I 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...
Metricize Me!
Posted: March 6, 2021Academia is in the middle of a quantification revolution. If you are a professor or academic researcher, you have, by now, undoubtedly encountered any number of web platforms that offer...
On Academic Bullying
Posted: December 19, 2020"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?” he yelled at me over the phone. I was standing in an airport with a luggage bag weighing down my shoulder, as indecipherable loudspeaker announcements...
Can We Reverse the Adjunctification Trend?
Posted: December 19, 2020In the U.S. higher education arena, we have now reached a point where over half of faculty appointments are part-time, and 70% are contingent (i.e., on a non-tenure track), compared to under 50% four...