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In my on-going service as a happy academic who nonetheless feels it important to offer cautionary tales to those who would themselves venture into the academic world, I’d like to offer this ad for a job that was posted on the WPA-L listserv: WRITING SPECIALIST Southwest Missouri State University is accepting applications for a Writing … Continue reading “The Happy Academic: How much for that job in the window?”

I came across this article/call for diarists at the CHE. Basically, they’re looking for folks who have stories to tell about going on the job market in the coming year. To quote: “If you have a flair for writing, here’s an opportunity to use it and get paid. We select about 10 diarists a year; … Continue reading “Maybe I Should be a CHE Diarists…”

Via The Invisible Adjunct comes this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education,“Ignoring Good Advice.” The article is part of a very good resource for information on the academic job market, CHE’s Chronicle Careers pages. In the nutshell, the article is a humorous and fictionalized account of the advice a student received from her professors … Continue reading “Should you go to graduate school? Good recent article and discussion”

As a “happy academic,” I am sometimes asked by students about whether or not they should go to graduate school. I am asked this enough to make it worthwhile to write down an answer (I’ve been working on this one off and on for a couple of weeks), and because of some of the reaction … Continue reading “The Happy Academic, Part II: "Should I get a Master's degree?"”

I have been meaning to post here about an amusing entry on November 12, 2003 at the Household Opera blog called “A Plastic-sack view of Higher Education”. With a title like that, it perhaps isn’t surprising that The Invisible Adjunct picked up on it in a post about part-time faculty. For me, the metaphor connecting … Continue reading “Paper or Plastic?”