From PhD to Life
We think all PhD students would benefit from attending, and that includes individuals who are committed to securing an academic position after graduation.
Jennifer Polk and I are thrilled to present the 5th Annual Beyond the Professoriate conferenc...
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From PhD to Life
While individual initiative is vital, a larger cultural shift is needed.
This is a guest post by Drs Jonathan Malloy and Loleen Berdahl. Jonathan Malloy is a professor in the department of political science at Carleton University. His research areas include Canadian political institutions and career development processes in universities. Loleen Berdahl is a professo...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/addressing-the-academia-first-mentality-in-phd-programs/
From PhD to Life
If your job search is falling flat, try remembering a moment when you felt most energized or engaged – this will give you valuable insight into yourself.
When it comes to sorting out what you want to do next, you need to get past the “any job, anywhere” thinking. You need something more manageable, both for yourself and for anyone attempting to help you along the way. So you start to do the things folks like me suggest doing, including conducting...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/standout-moments-from-your-past-can-help-define-your-future/
Careers Café
The Tri-council funding system, made up of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funding councils, reminds me a bit of Fluffy. You know,
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/highs-and-lows-of-tri-council-funding/
Careers Café
One of the best benefits of teaching graduate students is being given the opportunity to meet so many extraordinary people from all over the world. Our department is like many at Canadian research universities; typically, 25-50% of our graduate students are from outside of Canada. This provides a ri...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/welcoming-international-students/
Careers Café
This is a guest post by Isaiah Hankel, author and consultant at Continue reading.
Hard skills are dying. Think of how many hard skills have been outsourced or replaced by computer apps over the last 10 years – thousands. Remember when large compa...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/the-only-3-skills-graduate-students-need-to-learn/
Careers Café
Removing some of your academic experiences from your resume may seem wrong, but Liz Koblyk says it will help you during the job search.
For a mere two to three pages of text, your cover letter and resume can cause a lot of heartbreak. This is especially the case if you are looking for your first non-academic job.
Cutting down your CV, and condensing or even eliminating your academic experience in order to create a focused resume...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/cutting-down-your-resume-is-not-the-end-of-the-world/
Careers Café
These lists are not useful because they are built around a tiny part of what makes you a good job candidate.
If careers were linear, the logical topic for this post might be “careers you can do...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/lose-the-list/
Careers Café
The secret CV doesn’t contain things you want to hide, but rather things that you’re proud of, and haven’t yet found a way to articulate.
As failure CVs make the rounds, they confirm that Continue reading. It’s not the only kind of atypical CV that can help you to reconceptualize your career. I...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/the-secret-cv/
Careers Café
Self-reflections are another kind of metric, one that can create space for us to think carefully about our mission and mandates as teachers.
The end of the semester can engender a number of complicated feelings. Some of us feel relief at not having to answer quite so many emails, joy at finally being finished our grading, and grief over the fact that we will likely never see our students again. As in the case with transition periods, man...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/taking-stock-the-importance-of-teaching-self-reflections/
Careers Café
How I adapted my regular course for a pandemic reality.
In June 2020, I wrote an article called Continue reading with recommendations on how to handle the transition to online education at the begin...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/pandemic-pedagogies-11-months-later/
Magazines
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Continue readingPEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Roy Pogorzelski has been ap...
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The new era of EDI: Efforts to promote equity, diversity and inclusion are sweeping Canada’s campusesLETTERS
Tragedy of the commonsPEOPLE ON THE MOVE
The Univ...
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How are you doing?: A bit tired, thanks. You?LETTERS
Now is not the time for naggingPEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Yann Arthur has been appointed coordinator of campus recre...
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Éditorial
Comment allez-vous?: Un peu fatigué, merci. Et vous?NOMINATIONS
Le 5 octobre, Élisabeth Farinacci est entrée en poste à titre de directrice du Servi...
Multimedia
Un Continue reading de l’Université de Sherbrooke a exploré les pistes qui s’offrent à eux après un doctorat. Partage d’une expérience de réalisation vidéo par et pour des étudiants gradués.
« Nous avons découvert l’e...
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Student Voices
Find your passion and learn how to apply it to make positive change – these are the tasks for the 21st-century student.
We often lose sight of the bigger picture when we become too focused with a goal or an objective. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but I have found from my personal experiences that I have had to remind myself to keep things in perspective.
I mean two specific things that I remind myself...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/student-voices/lets-keep-things-in-perspective/
Adventures in Academe
This fall I returned to teaching after a three-year hiatus. Two maternity leaves plus a sabbatical meant that, although I kept myself busy with other forms of scholarly activity, I had not stepped foot in a classroom for three years. That’s almost the lifespan of an undergraduate cohort, and in so...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/adventures-in-academe/exploring-the-why-of-teaching/
Legally Speaking
A balanced solution will allow you to detect violations of academic integrity while minimally interfering with students’ privacy.
The global pandemic has turned the conventional classroom into a virtual classroom. Universities’ quick transition to online learning, instruction and assessment has raised myriad concerns and questions for faculty, students and administrators as they navigate this “new normal.”
A key quest...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/legally-speaking/choosing-the-right-online-proctoring-tool-some-timely-advice/
Sponsored Content
Universities have always been on the cutting edge of new technology, so I wasn’t surprised when my school’s IT department issued me a new 12-inch Samsung Galaxy Book. This innovative laptop/tablet hybrid is lightweight and portable at just 754 grams and offers professors the ability to seamlessl...
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