The road to Harvard ends in ... Joplin?
The past year yielded several events in the academic job search, ending with buying a new (old) house in Joplin.
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The past year yielded several events in the academic job search, ending with buying a new (old) house in Joplin.
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It’s Plan E for 2008-09!
On March 6, an acquisitions editor at Stanford University Press invited me to submit my book manuscript.
As academics and people close to them know, getting a revised dissertation published as a book is an important component of career strategy.
I have always said it is a good idea life to have a backup plan - Plan B - in case the primary plan doesn't work out.
No, I have not joined the National Rifle Association. This is my third season applying for academic jobs, but (except for the summer job at CTY) my first really serious effort.
Getting What You Came For is the title of a book that the University of Kansas Graduate Schools gives to its new doctoral candidates.
Of the dozen 2007-08 teaching jobs I've applied fo, the only development so far is that one search has been canceled.
To my great relief, I hit my schedule target for completing Chapter Five of my dissertation.