Advice for new Ph.D.s on managing the initial years of an academic career.
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AdviceA New Associate Professor Adjusts to Life After Tenure
There is plenty of stress after tenure — different from the up-or-out pressures you experience before tenure, but intense in its own way. -
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Which Publications Matter at Which Stages of Your Career?
It’s hard enough to get a tenure-track job now, but your odds are even longer with too many of the wrong kinds of publications. -
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How to Start Off Right in Your New Job
Yes, it’s still summer, but if you’re beginning a new faculty post this fall, it’s time to start preparing for what’s coming. -
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10 Things No One Told Me About Applying for Tenure
Compiling a tenure file forces you to confront who you are and what you’ve done, and to reimagine who you want to become. -
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How to Be Strategic on the Tenure Track
It’s difficult to resist the pressures to overwork since that is often the only path to tenure. -
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Warning Signs That You and Your Campus Are a Bad Fit
The academic year is just underway, and it’s already time to consider whether to go back on the faculty job market. -
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How to Advocate for Yourself as an Early-Career Scholar
Many academics spend 60 percent of their time on tasks that go unrecognized. Don’t let it happen to you. -
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When Do You Stop Being an Early-Career Scholar?
To reach tenure, you must survive the pressures of life as an advanced assistant professor. -
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How to Be a Caregiver While Caring for Your Own Career
It’s not uncommon for early-career academics to lose professional ground because of family obligations. -
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How to Get the Most Out of a Conference
It helps to choose the right scholarly meeting, and to swallow your discomfort with schmoozing. -
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Crafting a Convincing Book Proposal
What to consider as you attempt to persuade book editors to give you a contract. -
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The 21st-Century Academic
An emphasis on diversity, in all its forms, is reshaping faculty roles and academic culture. -
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The Job Market: Picking Apart Your Application
Search committees have to comb through dozens of pages in each candidate’s application. Here’s how we do it, and what we’re looking for. -
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The Job Market: Where Should You Apply?
Even in a weak academic job market, you should carefully consider where you want to work and what sort of job you actually want. -
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The Job Market: The Campus Interview
The person you present during your two-day visit is the person the search committee will assume you to be.
