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Previous "First Person" ColumnsFirsthand accounts written by Ph.D.'s about all aspects of finding a job in higher education and doing the job. First Person
An administrator in student services, and a new mother, seeks to move up the
ranks.
(11/20/2008)
First Person
The rigors of the professoriate begin to weigh heavily on three assistant
professors who are no longer rookies.
(11/19/2008)
First Person
When you become a dean of students, be prepared for students and parents to
view you as the problem and the solution.
(11/14/2008)
First Person
The perfect job for a Ph.D. in earth sciences turns out to be not in higher
education.
(11/13/2008)
First Person
Fall means almost nonstop travel for people in admissions. In the face of
exhaustion, it's easy to forget why the work matters.
(11/10/2008)
First Person
His tenure-track job is in the middle of nowhere, but he loves it anyway. So
why is he going back on the market?
(11/6/2008)
First Person
A political scientist shares the changes and continuities he found 20 years
after his first teaching stint there.
(11/5/2008)
First Person
The second in a series on what assistant professors want and need to be
successful in academe.
(11/4/2008)
First Person
A job candidate in English plans for jubilant success but prepares for
complete and total rejection.
(11/3/2008)
First Person
A job candidate tests her interview skills at her field's annual convention,
and finds they're a little rusty.
(10/29/2008)
First Person
An associate professor would be happy to have the federal government ease
her financial crisis.
(10/27/2008)
First Person
An administrator who considered giving up his job finds the decision made
for him.
(10/23/2008)
First Person
Two Ph.D. candidates in the humanities chronicle their search for their
first tenure-track jobs.
(10/16/2008)
First Person
After a four-year hiatus from the classroom, a professor finds it both
familiar and new again.
(10/13/2008)
First Person
Shouldn't seven years of graduate school have helped me avoid taking a job
just to have a job?
(10/9/2008)
First Person
Why would a newly tenured associate professor in the sciences decide to go
on the job market?
(10/8/2008)
First Person
A job candidate in sociology whose research focuses on race finds that he's
not what search committees were expecting.
(10/2/2008)
First Person
An associate provost who resisted administrative jobs for years now seeks to
move up the ranks.
(10/1/2008)
First Person
An assistant professor at a liberal-arts college prepares for a yearlong
research leave.
(9/29/2008)
First Person
The first in a series on what assistant professors want and need to be
successful in academe.
(9/19/2008)
First Person
How can a midcareer faculty member whose days are filled with administrative
and service work find time for research?
(9/18/2008)
First Person
Taking on extra jobs to make ends meet becomes something of an obsession for
one doctoral candidate.
(9/15/2008)
First Person
Too many campus administrators and professors fail to hold technology to
academic standards of cost analysis and assessment.
(9/12/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. spends five days and a lot of money learning the rules of academic
conferences.
(9/10/2008)
First Person
A journal editor outlines the most common mistakes academics make in
submitting their manuscripts.
(9/8/2008)
First Person
Nothing stunts civility like graduate-student insecurities and competition.
(9/4/2008)
First Person
On his first day on the job, an assistant professor is handed an unusual
gift.
(9/3/2008)
First Person
Given a chance to explore an old passion, an assistant professor learns the
rules and realities of a conference romance.
(8/25/2008)
First Person
When his tenure-track search fell short, a Ph.D. faced a fundamental choice
about dealing with the disappointment.
(8/21/2008)
First Person
Accepting the possibility of tenure denial and dealing with the reality of
it are two different things.
(8/18/2008)
First Person
It's time to dispel the graduate-school myth that family time is wasted
time.
(8/14/2008)
First Person
Going on the job market this fall? Tell us all about it.
(8/13/2008)
First Person
Is it plagiarism when a colleague borrows your syllabus and then uses it in
its entirety for his own course?
(8/8/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. in the sciences loses his complacency and rediscovers his confidence
in his search for a tenure-track position.
(8/6/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. tries to reconcile the profession he glamorized as a child with the
one he is living on the tenure track.
(8/4/2008)
First Person
The economy can be a cruel mistress, particularly, it seems, to a performing
artist.
(7/31/2008)
First Person
After 35 years of meetings and memos, an administrator mulls leaving the
management track.
(7/30/2008)
First Person
A moment of minor irritation at a student's dumb question can make for major
aggravation.
(7/29/2008)
First Person
A tenured professor accustomed to going about her own business finds herself
suddenly responsible for others in a summer institute.
(7/28/2008)
First Person
Sick of mediocre students and feeling stuck on the job, a professor turns to
music to self-medicate.
(7/25/2008)
First Person
If we had to make up a story for why you might be interested in our
position, then interviewing you was too risky.
(7/24/2008)
First Person
Three assistant professors find the going tough in their first year on the
tenure track.
(7/17/2008)
First Person
The true story of what it's like to spend a week grading Advanced Placement
exams.
(7/11/2008)
First Person
Giving up a full year's leave to take only a semester off was a mistake but
even a limited break has its benefits.
(7/9/2008)
First Person
Recent job postings and hires suggest that many academic libraries are
losing interest in hiring humanities Ph.D.'s.
(7/1/2008)
First Person
An associate professor ponders the cause and effect of academic infighting.
(6/30/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. in economics makes the transition from graduate student to potential
colleague.
(6/25/2008)
First Person
Graduate students often have no idea how to communicate with their advisers.
(6/24/2008)
First Person
Among other things, a Facebook profile means you get to see how your students react when you hand out their grades.
(6/16/2008)
First Person
Despite ceaseless murmurings about a 'global' age, most scholars remain narrowly bound to nation and discipline.
(6/13/2008)
First Person
An academic librarian who took a risk and conducted a geographically narrow search has secured her first tenure-track position.
(6/4/2008)
First Person
As the purpose of a professor's work trips has changed, so has the nature of the accommodations.
(5/29/2008)
First Person
A search committee thought it had selected 18 excellent candidates -- until it met them.
(5/23/2008)
First Person
A newly minted Ph.D. in religious studies lands her first tenure-track job.
(5/21/2008)
First Person
The vote was in her favor but not unanimous; so why was everyone acting as if she had terminal cancer?
(5/16/2008)
First Person
For an administrative job candidate, the excitement of taking an offer goes hand in hand with fear and a touch of disillusionment.
(5/15/2008)
First Person
In your first year on the tenure track, be prepared for your confidence to take a beating.
(5/14/2008)
First Person
Back when I was a student, it, like, took a lot of effort to pilfer someone else's work.
(5/13/2008)
First Person
The rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of the humanities professor as thriving public scholar.
(5/9/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. in geological sciences always knew he wanted to teach; so how did his career get so focused on research?
(5/8/2008)
First Person
Contrary to popular belief, the faculty-career route is not disproportionately paved with peril.
(5/6/2008)
First Person
Everything you need to know about your role as a commentator or a member of the audience.
(5/2/2008)
First Person
For junior faculty members, the best place to focus on research may not be at a research university.
(4/25/2008)
First Person
Here's why it's usually a bad idea to promote assistant professors before the six-year mark.
(4/21/2008)
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