Author: Kristin Croyle, PhD Here’s a multiple-choice question for you. This one is “mark all that apply:” Lately I have been feeling: Does any of that sound familiar? If so, you can join the burnout club. Many of us have experiences of burnout periodically in our careers both as students and as faculty. What is … Read more
Author: Kate Epstein, editor, EpsteinWords It happens all the time: you write an article that is the right length for a particular outlet, and then you learn you’re going to have to shorten it for some other journal or book. It’s exhausting, I think, to imagine how to take a paper you were happy with … Read more
A Surprising Reason Why Lying Down and Closing Your Eyes for 20 Minutes Might be the Best Productivity Tool of All Author: Benita Jackson, PhD MPH I have seen the United Nations reports about the climate crisis. And I wonder, what possibly can I do in this critical next decade or so that is calling for decisive … Read more
Author: Barbara Risman, PhD Nearly all university administrators are really faculty in disguise. We take jobs in administration for a variety of reasons. Whether we are a Department Head, Associate Dean, Dean or Provost, most of us want to both do our jobs well and remain active in our fields as researchers and writers who publish … Read more
Author: Elizabeth Ancarana, PhD. Dual-career matters have become such a significant component of faculty recruitment and retention that you can’t talk about one without the other. Since most of our faculty have working partners and spouses—some of whom are also academics, some in other professions—providing dual-career assistance can be crucial for a successful recruitment for … Read more