This year, I made a fortunately successful run on the academic job market, and I'm looking forward to beginning my tenure-track position in August.
Until now, I’ve resisted posting on those experiences. I have, however, commented on the job search more broadly. For instance, I’ve discussed the need for doctoral students to simultaneously prepare for the academic- and non-academic job markets. It seems odd to me, then, that I haven’t offered some hacky, this-is-how-you-do-it tidbits for writing the academic cover letter, preparing a writing sample, practicing for interviews, and acing the campus visit.
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May 25, 2012 - 3:00am
Despite the high-profile buzz, elite universities’ move online won’t be what upends the higher ed market, writes Ryan Craig.
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May 24, 2012 - 3:00am
Let's think about higher education as a process in which the institution and the student, together, create the education, write Louis Soares and Amy Ostrom.
May 24, 2012 - 2:59am
Colleges and universities should work harder on seeking exposure for female athletics and bringing women’s sports to fans, Susan Herbst writes.
May 23, 2012 - 3:00am
Build an old-fashioned bookstore, if you have money to burn -- or consider the new model instead. Scott McLemee looks at the blueprints.
May 22, 2012 - 3:00am
Michael English worries that, as a librarian, he is losing touch with books.
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Wick Sloane, who writes the Devil's Workshop column for Inside Higher Ed, has embedded himself at Bunker Hill Community College.
Essayist, critic, and digital feuilletonist. He writes the Intellectual Affairs column for Inside Higher Ed.
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Student Affairs and Technology
May 24, 2012 - 9:02pm
Admittedly, it's been a few years since I last read 1984 by George Orwell. However, the themes of widespread surveillance and "thoughtcrimes" are generally applicable to all sorts of present day issues. One of the curiosities that has emerged in the area of social media communications is the monitoring of student athlete accounts.
Technology and Learning
May 24, 2012 - 9:00pm
Imagine for a moment that you are the Educator Queen (or King) of the World. You have the power to make a Royal Decree about the education app that will be created next. Everything you survey is yours, and your will we be done. What are your orders?
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May 18, 2012
The conservative critique is about challenging the professional role of professors, writes Stephen J. Mexal.
May 17, 2012
They're dropping like flies at U of All People, and David Galef reports on the retirement party rituals.
Government-subsidized loans are feeding students' debt and colleges' tuition increases. When will taxpayers and politicians decide that enough's enough? asks Thomas Lindsay.
May 16, 2012
It infected a third of the world's population and killed tens of millions. Scott McLemee reads a new book recalling the influenza pandemic of 1918.
May 15, 2012
For better or worse, a select group of students and parents get a dress rehearsal for the college search process in the American ritual of sending a child to summer camp, writes John Thelin.
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