Category: Mentoring
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In our August “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: I had a friend in grad school who struggled to get papers done and took a ton of Incomplete grades, which they then had trouble finishing up. But, for all that, they went on to have a spectacularly successful career (with tenure) at…
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In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: One of the more frustrating aspects of academia is how often senior faculty, including those tasked with supporting job candidates, assume that people on the market are young, naive, and not quite fully adult. Why is this the default assumption? I'm a…
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: I'm mid-career (tenured ~2021), and I've enjoyed doing some mentoring of grad students and early career folks. But I'm running into issues for which I could use a mentor of my own! Some of these issues involve dept politics, others are about how…
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In our new "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: How can junior faculty become good supervisors, especially when the students they are supervising are not optimistic/enthusiastic about their degrees? I am tenure-track faculty in a department which requires regular supervision of MA and PhD students. I care deeply about philosophy and about…