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Returning to Mapping Your Academic Career

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Editor's Note: In Fall 2015,  Matthew Boedy  (an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of North Georgia) wrote an excellent review of the new InterVarsity Press release. To encourage those on the academic pathway to  give  Mapping Your Academic Career: Charting the Course of a Professor's Life  a read, I refer you to Boedy's earlier  review and offer you an additional one by  Bob Trube*. May God bless you as you take next steps on the academic pathway. Please continue to forward us comments, … [Read more...] about Returning to Mapping Your Academic Career

Processing your PhD: a further meditation on done-ness

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What's it actually like when you finally finish a PhD? Recent PhD grad Will Mari continues his series on life after graduate school, Processing Your PhD. See  his first post here, and his second here. … [Read more...] about Processing your PhD: a further meditation on done-ness

Summer Snapshot: Research, Teaching, Missions

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Assistant Professor Meagan Medley shares the mix of things in her summer with readers in this Summer Snapshot [1]. Also check out Meagan's Scholar's Compass pieces here. Photo: New Orleans at Night, from NASA. While many picture summer as a time of beaches, pools and binge watching the latest drama, God's plans for me this summer involve a juggle of research, teaching, and coordinating mission teams coming to New Orleans. It's such a blessing to have a full plate and to see impact in a tangible way as the typical … [Read more...] about Summer Snapshot: Research, Teaching, Missions

Processing your PhD: the first of a short series on life after graduate school

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Join us in welcoming  recent University of Washington PhD grad and new professor Will Mari, who will be sharing reflections on transitions and  life after graduate school this summer. Photo: Columns, Sylvan Grove, University of Washington You stand in the Quad, surrounded by empty chairs and the sound guys talking down the stage. It's an early June day in Seattle at the University of Washington. A cool wind is blowing paper programs lazily through the air. Rain is misting down, as it does in the Northwest, … [Read more...] about Processing your PhD: the first of a short series on life after graduate school