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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

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

Discerning My Vocation: A Surprise in the Graduate School Search

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Image: Painting by author Kateri Collins Here at ESN, we love to share accounts of how emerging scholars discover new things about their vocation at every step of their careers. Kateri Collins participated in ESN events at Urbana 15 while in her graduate school application  process. Here, she shares the story of discerning which graduate program she was called to, including how her carefully planned graduate school search process yielded a surprising—and satisfying—result. … [Read more...] about Discerning My Vocation: A Surprise in the Graduate School Search