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By CathyG

Temp jobs: Part-time academic or substitute teacher?

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Filed Under: Career Advice and Opinions Tagged With: academic career, academic careers, Career Advice and Opinions

By CathyG

Defying stereotypes of academic careers and West Point cadets

Elizabeth Samet holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale, all in English literature. So she’s hardly the type you’d expect to find teaching cadets at West Point. But Samet accepted a position there in 1996, to the surprise (and, I suspect, consternation) of her academic colleagues. She found surprising rewards and […]

Filed Under: Career Advice and Opinions Tagged With: academic careers, military academy, West Point, women

By CathyG

Can blogging help or hurt your career?

In the Chronicle of Higher Education, a newspaper targeted to anyone even remotely connected to academia, Brandon Withrow ponders this question in an article “Not Your Father’s PhD.” You can read it here. I would agree with those who say you’ll be better equipped to work with today’s students if you understand modern techo-tools. One […]

Filed Under: Career Planning, Workplace Politics Tagged With: academic careers, blogging, chronicle of higher education

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