Recently, I was speaking to undergrad students about careers when someone asked, “Were you able to find a position that matched your area of special interest?”Read more…
The Job Search, Post 5: Moving Into God’s Will
So you have it all done–salary, contract, even your office location. You might even have your teaching schedule lined up. What do you do now?Read more…
The Job Search, Post 4: Decision
You’ve sent hundreds of applications, done the phone interviews, and gone on the campus visits. Now you have to decide. Read more…
The Job Search, Part 3: The Campus Visit
What makes for a great campus visit? How does it fit into the will of God? Read more…
The Job Search, Part 2: The Interview Process
You have written a good letter—so good in fact that now you have some interviews scheduled. These could range from a phone call to some form of video conference. As you will learn, this means you are now in a group of roughly 15-20 people, down from the mammoth pool of 100-200 who applied. You may never have thought that Anonymous U or Nowhere U would call for an interview. And yet, here you are. Read more…
The Job Search, Part 1: The Application
Since September and October in many ways start the job year (with the first MLA list for humanities people and the posts on different job wikis), if you’re on the market and are not already applying, you will soon. Here are some thoughts about “the will of God” and that stage.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass Navigating Transitions: In the Middle of Things
The Intersection of Church and Business
J. Nathan Matias (@natematias), Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media continues his Urbana12 series. This post in original form (12/28/2012) can be found here. As some of you know, the seminar is part of the Business Changing the World Track. Thank-you Nathan! GreatRead more…
Finding a Postdoc in the Sciences: Nailing the Interview
Kelly Seaton continues her series on finding a postdoc in the sciences. Previously: One Postdoc’s Journey, Where Should I Begin?, Identifying the Right Position What questions do you have about the postdoc interview process? Do you have any interview experiencesRead more…
Finding a Postdoc in the Sciences: Identifying the Right Position
Kelly Seaton continues her series on finding a postdoc in the sciences. Previously: One Postdoc’s Journey, Where Should I Begin? Once you have decided to pursue a postdoc position and have a reasonable idea what you would like to studyRead more…
Week in Review: Where the Jobs Are Edition
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here’s a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you’d like us to consider for theRead more…
Week in Review: No Christianity Please Edition
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here’s a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you’d like us to consider for theRead more…
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 orRead more…
Shaping the Next Generation of Higher Education
Two recent articles on the profession of education worth consideration: In Search of Education Leaders, by Bob Herbert, NY Times Op-Ed, December 4, 2009 The Ph.D. Problem: On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal, byRead more…
The Future of Faculty Driven by Technology & Organizational Efficiency?
Some final thoughts on The Faculty of the Future: Leaner, Meaner, More Innovative, Less Secure (Forum, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/10/2009) from a friend who offers his gifts to Christ by serving as a business professor. Do any readers haveRead more…
Future faculty must “Show me the money”?
In the last Week in Review, I highlighted The Faculty of the Future: Leaner, Meaner, More Innovative, Less Secure (Forum, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/10/2009). You may remember, I’ve asked a business professor to comment on the piece. The facultyRead more…
Week in Review
Welcome to this week’s Week in Review! If you have your own link or suggestion, please add it to the comments, or email it to Tom or Mike. From Tom Historic Bible pages put online (BBC News, July 6, 2009): Read more…
Week in Review
From Tom ‘Angels & Demons’ May Help Physicists Explain What Matters. Question: Do you agree with Mr. Izen? “Life presents just a couple of these opportunities when the public is paying attention, really paying attention to science, and in thisRead more…
Chapter 1: Up to the Minute Publishing
Questions inspired by and related to You’ve Read the Headlines. Now, Quick, Read the Book (by Motoko Rich, NY Times, 3/29/2009, posted at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/books/30quic.html) Questions: How does this necessity/predisposition for more, deeper material ASAP affect popular writing by academics and academic publishing in cuttingRead more…
Where the tenure track jobs are. …
Some news related to Mike’s earlier post Hard Times, Come Again No More. … According to the Chronicle of Higher Education article For Some, Hard Times Make Hiring Easier: some institutions are going against the grain of the poor economyRead more…
Hard Times, Come Again No More
Last week, the NY Times published a depressing story about the state of tenure-track jobs. This gives you feel for the article: Fulltime faculty jobs have not been easy to come by in recent decades, but this year the newRead more…
Director, School of Education, Colorado State
Tenure-track positions can be hard to find, and many universities are cutting back on hiring, but Colorado State is looking for a new Director for their School of Education. I know there are many education scholars in ESN, so perhapsRead more…
Biology Opening at John Brown University
In the ESN Discussion Forum, I have just posted a new listing for a biology faculty at John Brown University. Also, if you haven’t yet, check out the new website, Academic Vocations. Most ESN members study and work at secularRead more…