MASP Student site

You have the MA, now what?

In Debt for your Degree

Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress

They Say Ill Never Get a Job (MA student to Phd program)

What Book Changed Your Mind?

How to Make the Case for Graduate Education

How Long Can You Rely on Your Dissertation Adviser

What Book Changed Your Mind?

Spotting a Bad Adviser—and How to Pick a Good One

The Difference Mentoring Makes

The Worst Advice Grad Students Get

A Black Female Professor Struggles With Going Mean

Faking It- Women, Academia, and Impostor Syndrome

The Rogue Scholar

Black Scholars- Explaining Your Work May Mean Fighting For It

The Burdens of Working-Class Youth

A Black Academic Woman’s Self

Graduate School Blues

An Open Letter to New Graduate Students

Among Privileged Classmates

Welcome to Graduate School

Graduate Student Study Cage

The Campus Style Police- Your Look is a Bit Wild

An Incomplete Rainbow Queer freedom and the tolerance trap

What If You Knew I Was Black

As Smart as Ill Ever Be - Qualifying Exams PHD

1st and 3rd year of your PhD program

The Part-Time Ph.D. Student

On Graduate School and Love - PhD track

What They Say About You Behind Closed Doors - PhD program

The Advisor and the Committee (dissertation advice)

A Common Time to get Stuck - After Course Work

Spotting a Bad Adviser—and How to Pick a Good One

The Difference Mentoring Makes

On Graduate School and Love Why do so many students decide to seek Ph.D.s, even knowing what they know about the academic labor system?

Conferencing 101

Getting Ready for Conferences

Preparing Presentation

How to Deliver an Effective Conference Paper

The Conference Paper Reconsidered

The Art of Conferencing

The Ph.D.s Guide to a Nonfaculty Job Search

Changing My Mind About CVs

10 Worst Mistakes of First Job Search

Just Visiting- How to Give an Internal Candidate the Bad News

Job Market OverDoingIt

The Academic Cover Letter

Teaching Statement as Self-Portrait

Breastfeeding on the Job Market

Doing Scholarship from Outside Academe

A Guide to Campus Interviews What you need to practice (repeatedly) to make a good impression

Revisiting Disclosure - when and how to share your personal conditions in academia

The Professor Is in - A First-Timer on the Job Market?

Older and on the (Academic Job) Market

Syllabus Design for Dummies

Is Adjuncting the ‘Kiss of Death’?

my teaching cv (marisol clark-ibanez, 2001)

CV Help CVDoctor

CV Help Dartmouth

CV Help UnivVirginia

CV Resource Page

CV session

CV Tips ACS

comm college job process

what cc job committees want you to know

Advice from CC FacultyChairs

CC interview advice

chron teaching statement

comm college interviewers

CommColl JobSearch

cover letter advice

CoverLetter CommColl

how would you teach

HowTo CCJob

impersonal interview

sample teaching cv

stdtlearning commcoll

Community Colleges Might Not Be for You Are you prepared to teach 5 classes a semester for the rest of your career?

The Community College Cover Letter

The Math Doesn’t Work - hours a professor works

5 Character NewFaculty

first generation faculty

first semester on tenure track

My First Year of Teaching A new Ph.D. adjusts to a faculty job and to a foreign classroom

Professing Through the Years

A Black Female Professor Struggles With Going Mean

Spirit Guides what students crave from professors

Damaged Professors

In Search of an Academic Wife

The No-Matter-What Rule of Academic Motherhood

How Long Can You Rely on Your Dissertation Adviser

Know the Vital Players in Your Career- Your Own Actions

Confessions of a Young, Prolific Academic

The Dissertation- Then, Now, and What Next?

Waiting for Us to Notice Them This is how we can begin to practice a ‘pedagogy of presence’ in our classrooms

The 3 Essential Functions of Your Syllabus, Part 1

Dear Student- No, I Won’t Change the Grade You Deserve

Syllabus Design for Dummies

Me and My Shadow CV

@AcademicsSay - The Story Behind a Social-Media Experiment

Microaggression and Changing Moral Cultures

Coping With Verbal Abuse in Academia

Career Advice From an Oldish Not-Quite Geezer

Late Again? A faculty member wondered why her students were always late. So she asked them

Ohio U. Investigates Plagiarism Charges

Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism- a Question of Education, Not Ethics

Unconscious Plagiarism

Bribes and Guilt as Tools for Writing

writing bootcamp 2012 edition

the advisor and the committee

reading like a graduate student

writing date

learning by critique

My Little Bag of Writing Tricks

10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly

No Synonyms bag v sack

writers block

Dumb Writing Advice, Part 1- Word Prohibitions

Annotated Bibliography assembled by MCI

Why Academics Stink at Writing

writing guide - general advice for inclusive language

The Value of 10 Minutes writing each day

On Yoga and Teaching Writing

The Confidence Gap in Academic Writing

In Defense of Public Writing

The Habits of Highly Productive Writers

In Defense of Public Writing

The No-Fail Secret to Writing a Dissertation

Revising Your Dissertation You’ve successfully defended — but you’re not done yet

The Secret to Hitting Your Writing Goals May Be Simple - Peer Pressure

10 Writing Tips for Student Sociologists

Using Anecdotes to Hook a Reader

How to Tailor Your Online Image

Making Drafts Count