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What is a “fully funded” doctoral program?

I hear people use the term “fully funded” in relation to doctoral programs. As in, “I was accepted into a PhD program with full funding!”…

Oct 23, 2021

What is a “fully funded” doctoral program?

Oct 23, 2021

Kristen Slack

13 things I wish someone had told me when I was an early career scholar

(1) 9 times out of 10 a journal rejection is not about you or your research but about journal fit — resubmit somewhere else!;

Oct 23, 2021

13 things I wish someone had told me when I was an early career scholar

Oct 23, 2021

Kristen Slack

Can We Reverse the Adjunctification Trend?

In the U.S. higher education arena, we have now reached a point where over half of faculty appointments are part-time, and 70% are…

Dec 27, 2020

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Dec 27, 2020

Kristen Slack

Is Administrative Burden Killing the Art of Teaching?

In January 2000, I taught my first course as a university faculty member. This was a milestone for me, and I spent weeks crafting my…

Dec 27, 2020

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Dec 27, 2020

Kristen Slack

On Academic Bullying

“WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?” he yelled at me over the phone. I was standing in an airport with a luggage bag weighing down my…

Dec 27, 2020

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Dec 27, 2020

Kristen Slack

Revisiting the Lost Opportunity

I remember the first time I submitted a research paper to a peer-reviewed journal. It was in 1998, at the tail end of my doctoral studies…

Dec 27, 2020

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Dec 27, 2020

Kristen Slack

Metricize Me!

Academia is in the middle of a quantification revolution. If you are a professor or academic researcher, you have, by now, undoubtedly…

Jul 15, 2020

Metricize Me!

Jul 15, 2020

Kristen Slack

Kristen Slack

Academic Entrepreneur, Higher Ed Innovator, Founder of Prof2Prof (and Professor by day). Follow me at www.Twitter.com/Kristen_Slack

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