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Six Things You Can Ask a Coach for (That Academia Never Mentions) (opens the original)
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Dear Work Friends,Earlier this year, I spoke on a panel titled Consulting and Coaching for Academics. The group included advanced graduate students, postdocs, and faculty interested in demystifying academic coaching.What struck me most about this conversation was the wide range of ideas those on the call held about coaching and how it relates to mentoring, which most of us are trained to rely on during graduate school.When asked for my opinion on why scholars wouldn’t just learn this job through
One year after I left my tenured job, here's what I'd tell anyone still in it (opens the original)
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Dear Work Friends,I’ve written a lot about my decision to resign from my faculty position in 2025, including how I came to see the difference between compromise and sacrifice, and what ultimately hel…
What If You Don’t Want to Choose? (opens the original)
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been writing about an idea I’ve wrestled with for most of my academic career: the assumption that becoming a prolific researcher requires you to minimize the effort you devote to being good at teaching. This debate has likely been familiar to many of you because we’ve all heard some version of the same advice: “Don’t spend too much time on teaching—you have to get your research done.” “Protect your writing time at all costs
A Colleague Told Me Winning a Teaching Award Before Tenure Would Send a Bad Signal (opens the original)
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Last week I wrote about reading Tenure Hacks twice in my early years on the tenure track and taking issue with the book’s core advice that faculty should conta
Your Teaching Contains Research Insights You've Been Trained to Ignore (opens the original)
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I first learned about signature pedagogies in 2012 or 2013 during a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) workshop. I hadn’t heard of SoTL before, but I was curious about people who were applyi… Read more
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