Tenure is a term often used in the context of academic professionals, but it is also an essential concept in the modern workplace. In a job setting, tenure refers to the length of time an employee has spent working at a company or in a specific role. Understanding the implications of ten...
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You should consider these in both the short-term (the pretenure period up to tenure) and over the length of your career. Things to consider Do the mission, values, culture, and practices of the institution and department provide a good fit to your own? Is the institution and department's...
According to Lazarus (2006), there is a particular relationship between an individual and the external environ- ment during a time of stress, in which the individual exploits or exceeds their abilities and perceives that their well-being is jeopardized. Academia can contain many stressors due to...
academia, as a matter of fact, as several past presidents of the American Political Science Association know to their sorrow. Fortunately for me, the step from spotting the incorrectly-placed comma in a constitution that would result in half the population...
I think people in academia, people doing research, are people who probably tend to be on the perfectionist end of things. They want things to be nice; they want things to go well. Yes, I think people want to feel like they’re competent and in charge and on top of their game, and...
What does Trudeausay? That Canada will be there to support Europe and, as the world moves “beyond fossil fuels,” to “have more renewables in our mix.” If you’re perplexed by that statement, you should be; it doesn’t make sense on any level. But that’s what happens when a ...
If a prof thinks that marking each mid-term test should take you 15 minutes, and you take a half hour for each, that does not mean that you suck at marking (though it is true that you'll take some time to find your groove), it might mean that there needs to be a...
GOLDIN: I don’t know if we’re going to go back. Something real has changed. And the real thing that has changed is that many firms — many, many firms, including us in academia — have realized that you don’t have to go to Tokyo to sign the M&A, and you don’t have to go...