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Enough With Rating Professors. Let's Play 'Rate My Committees.' | Vitae - 0 views

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    When you are a faculty member, you'll need to be strategic about serving on committees. Here's one opinion rating different committees
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Graduate School Is a Means to a Job - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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  • If offered the option of writing a master's thesis, seriously consider taking it, as it can form the core of your first refereed journal article. Plan out a publishing trajectory to ensure that you have at least one sole-authored refereed journal article before you defend your dissertation.
  • Attend every job talk in your department and affiliated departments religiously. It matters not if those talks are in your field or subfield.
  • Take every opportunity available to present your work publicly.
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  • Make your mistakes in graduate school, where the stakes are low, so that you are a master of the podium when the stakes are high.
  • apply annually to present a paper at your national conference
  • Cultivate a letter writer who is not from your Ph.D.-granting institution.
  • Write your dissertation with an eye to the publications that it will become
  • You must publish enough to get a job without prematurely exhausting your supply of material you will need for tenure.
  • Remember that the best dissertation is a finished dissertation.
  • Do what it takes to satisfy your committee and finish.
  • Be the sole instructor of at least one course
  • Go on the market while A.B.D. because you want to make your worst mistakes while you still have a year of financial support from your home department. Most people who prevail on the market need at least two years to do so.
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    An academic career counselor talks about the job search process
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The Completion Agenda, Part 2: The Best Defense - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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  • Point out problems yourself. An issue you raise at the defense is almost always going be seen as less problematic than if a committee member noted it and you seemed startled. You also come off as a professional when you are candid.
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