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The Recovering Academic in 2023
Experience More Epiphanies in 2024
A Sadness That Holds Hope for Joy
Replay! How to Write a High-Performing Personal Statement or College Essay
Should a Workshop Be a Safe Space?
How to boost your personal statement or college essay
It Takes Years for the Smoke to Clear
The Rise of the Homeschool Brigade
Behind the Scenes with Kao Kalia Yang
I Could Feel the Beating Heart of My Mother
How to Break Writer's Block as a Memoirist
Phillis Wheatley: An American Genius
Montana Meets Manhattan: Two Adventures in Education
University administrators have forgotten what leadership is
What can you do with a PhD in German?
Open thread: Finding balance between extremes
The sports boom will bust universities
Open thread: October book club and narrative medicine
What do Screaming Frog and film studies have in common?
Fatherhood Series Essay: Nature and Character
"I'm not Korean American. But I had to discover that I wasn't white."
Three Strategies for Drafting Your Book
Welcome to The Recovering Academic
A psychology PhD's journey from academe to human factors engineering
Welcome to The Recovering Academic
Private thread: Can the humanities save cities and companies money?
Do English professors think of themselves as priests?
The best work is on the B-side
J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur: Essential or extra to an American education?
Think of your work history as a series of Seinfeld episodes
How huckleberries earned the nickname "purple gold"
Open Thread: The American Job Search
How a humanities PhD got hired at Amazon
Swimming from academe to your first industry role
Montana: Lost Cause or Last Best Place?
The Dreaded "Red F" and the Beginnings of a Scholar
Industry needs an education in the value of a PhD
How do you define quality in higher education?
Grind less in roles that suit you more
How can I help with your writing?
How I observe Independence Day
Open thread: Is AI Destroying the Human Bond in Education?
Can a novelist be an intuitive neuroscientist?
3 Reasons Why You Should Watch Lucky Hank
Don’t be a “success disaster” in academe
How to align your values with your work
Why academe discourages a growth mindset
How do you know if your Eureka moments are real?
Younger Faculty Are Leaning Out. Is That a Bad Thing?
Can a work self be a whole self?
Open thread: Penalized for a Ph.D.
Don't go to school just to be poor
Private thread: double voicing or truth to power?
Anne Bradstreet: An American Rorschach Test
Open Friday Thread: Sustainability through affection
Professional athletes are the new robber barons
Feedback Friday and a private thread
It's time to rethink evangelical funerals
Open Friday thread: The vocational awe trap
Open thread: Recommended reading and metaphors for major life changes
Can a relationship expert help higher ed?
Open thread: The limits of perhapsing
How many first-generation students were not the first?
Open thread: On caring institutions
Remedies for The Great Disengagement
Why faculty of color are leaving academe
Why History's "Alone" reminds me of graduate school
Private thread: Breaking the silence of goodbyes
Open thread: The audience question
Can you write for a general audience anymore?
The cult of positive thinking comes for academe
How academic misfits can flourish in academe and beyond
Open Friday Thread: Storytelling, Teaching Experiments, and Private Threads
How folk ballads can help you write better stories
What does academic freedom mean today?
Open thread: community check-in