UVenus Around the Web:

• At Prof. Janni Aragon’s Blog, Janni gave us a Challenge Update (find out more about the UVenus challenge here.)
• At Prattle Nog, Melanie Booth explains how she is using Learning Visits to meet the UVenus Challenge.
• Teach or perish: early career academics need course design experience: Afshan Jafar with UVenus at The Guardian (UK).

What’s New With Our Writers:

• Janni Aragon is representing the Political Science department for the 50th Anniversary Planning events at UVIC.
• What Not To Do - Afshan Jafar with Career Advice at Inside Higher Ed.
• The Northwestern News Network interviewed Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe about Northwestern’s Fulbright success.
• Anamaria Dutceac Segesten is currently a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where, among others, she held two lectures, one on Globalization and Europe, the other about the New Security Agenda/Human Security. She will be in Hong Kong for another week. (challenge)

Our Writers At Other Blogs:

• Lee Skallerup Bessette at College Ready Writing with:  “Or Related Discipline...”: Who Gets to Teach? Who Gets on the Tenure Track; I’m a Swiss Army Knife; and  Changing Course.
• Melonie Fullick posted a Canadian higher education news round-up for October 2011, at Speculative Diction blog.
• Janni Aragon was thinking about relationships on her blog this week with Managing the Workplace and Managing People.
• Liana Silva wondered if she could pass down to her daughter her love for reading at Words Are My Game.