This article is part of series looking at chapters from a book being developed called Faithful is Successful, Notes to a Driven Pilgrim. Every two weeks are are responding to excerpts posted at drivenpilgrim.blogspot.com, considering how these issues might relate to emerging scholars. Today, we are looking at The Difficulty Discerning Calling by Dr. Bryan McGraw. I once had a student who in her first advising session here at Wheaton sat down in a chair opposite me, flipped open a laptop and proceeded to describe how … [Read more...] about In Response to “The Difficulty Discerning Calling”
Finding Work
Poll on Twitter Studies
How public are you about your private life in tweets, Facebook, blogs, wikis, email, phone, snail mail, articles, books, presentations, interviews? Very few of us will have our life and vocation examined by Congress, but none-the-less have you considered ... What your wider circle of acquaintances (or even the larger public) know about your daily life? How they came to know what they know? Note: maybe you've chosen to avoid social media, post anonymously, or post under a pseudonym. Whether the … [Read more...] about Poll on Twitter Studies
Resource for Scientists Seeking Alternative Careers
Are you a life sciences student or professional that loves the science, but doesn't want to follow a traditional career? If so, this is the place for you. This site will cover alternative science career options for those obtaining or that already acquired a science degree, but first let me describe a bit about why this site is being started. ... -- Kristy Houck, About, Alternative Careers Resource: Best Career Resource for Scientists Looking for Alternative Careers, December 16, 2009. Yesterday I had the opportunity … [Read more...] about Resource for Scientists Seeking Alternative Careers
The Rural Brain Drain
Have you seen and/or experienced The Rural Brain Drain (Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas, Chronicle of Higher Education, 9/19/2009)? After a number of suggestions regarding how to address The Rural Brain Drain, Carr and Kefalas conclude: Ultimately, with a plan and a vision the undoing of Middle America is not preordained. The rural crisis has been ignored for far too long, but, we believe, it isn't too late to start paying attention. The residents of rural America must embrace the fact that to survive, the … [Read more...] about The Rural Brain Drain
End the University as We Know It
Any responses to the NY Times piece End the University as We Know It? Another piece highlighting the concerns of specialization and the slave labor by graduate students in the research universities with diminishing chance of reward after pushing through the system. The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldn't conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. That's one of the main reasons we … [Read more...] about End the University as We Know It