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Kristen Slack

Kristen Slack

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Oct 23, 2021

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!”…

What is a “fully funded” doctoral program?

Kristen Slack

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Oct 23, 2021

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!;

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

Kristen Slack

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Dec 27, 2020

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…

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Kristen Slack

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Dec 27, 2020

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…

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Kristen Slack

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Dec 27, 2020

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…

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Kristen Slack

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Dec 27, 2020

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…

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Kristen Slack

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Jul 15, 2020

Metricize Me!

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

Metricize Me!

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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