It’s fellowship season up here in Canada, and more and more of Canada’s granting agencies have moved to an all-online system for their grant applications. While I am in favor of using less paper and streamlining the application process, I do wonder why Canadian granting organizations have such categorically bad web design. Montreal is full …
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It’s a couple months late, but with the help of a research assistant, I have updated the Academe section of my main site. It provides lots of professionalization advice for grad students and job seekers. If you have suggestions, please email me.
Tenured Radical is also in the academic advice business, and has a wonderful post on applying for a job when you already have one. I started writing a comment and it got so long, I thought I’d just post it here. WHY NOT TO USE LETTERHEAD. I actually don’t think people should use their current …
Names omitted to protect the innocent; otherwise copied verbatim: Dear Dr. Jonathan Sterne: Thank you so much for agreeing to participate in reviewing the tenure and promotion documents of —–. As you know, excellence in research activity is one of the most important areas of evaluation for promotion to the rank of Associate Professor and …
As with last year’s search, I’m making an exception to the “I don’t post ads here” policy for the home team. Pass it along to anyone you know who fits the bill. We are looking for someone doing cool, innovative, theoretically sophisticated work. —— ART HISTORY — The Department of Art History and Communication Studies …
Over at Differences and Repetitions, Ted Striphas wonders whether authors in academic publishing could change the industry the way comic book authors did: So what might we do to improve the situation for academic authors? We might take a cue from the comic book industry. In the 1990s, star writers and illustrators such as Todd …
For some time now, a digest called “IN THE NEWS” appears in my mailbox each morning with news items of interest to people working at McGill (plus, naturally, all the “expert citings” since the university keeps track of that sort of thing). In today’s digest, two apparently unrelated stories appeared. –A <a href=”http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-stuff4-2008jul04,0,983101.story” target=”_blank>profile</a> …
