This summer, we pioneered a new Summer Snapshot series that shared brief reflections from people in our network on their experience this summer. The series was so well received we've decided to expand it to other seasons. We're delighted to share this Fall Snapshot from an emerging scholar in psychology. Written a bit earlier this fall, this piece is deeply relevant as November busyness takes off. As an aspiring psychologist, I was recently in a training session that taught us how to validate clients' … [Read more...] about Fall Snapshot: Depending on Christ
mapping your academic career
Returning to Mapping Your Academic Career
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
Review: Mapping Your Academic Career, by Dr. Gary Burge
Mapping Your Academic Career: Charting the Course of a Professor's Life by Gary Burge. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2015. Based on the reviews on the back cover, this book is already striking chords with many faculty at all stages of their career. It also should be required reading for those in professional development programs, administrators, and organizations like Emerging Scholars that work with faculty. Dr. Burge highlights a lacuna in faculty development and gives some frame for those stakeholders … [Read more...] about Review: Mapping Your Academic Career, by Dr. Gary Burge