One of our goals at ProfHacker is trying to make plain and visible the often unspoken and undiscussed aspects of academic teaching, research, and service. While a PhD, MFA, MD, JD, or any other combination of highly educated letters typically requires several years of coursework, that coursework does not necessarily teach us everything that we will use on a daily basis. Teaching, fortunately, is no longer treated as a complete afterthought to one’s research, although it is still, to my mind, underemphasized in PhD programs (where my experience lies). Service, however, almost completely falls by the wayside as a subject for which graduate students are prepared. We have tackled service issues in the past (for example, see previous posts on
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