Graduates Anonymous

Given that this week is a solo discussion we decide to go down the rabbit hole a bit into something that both of us are interested in doing better. Teaching. We answer a Q&A about being a teaching assistant, finally answer the question of the difference between adjunct, assistant, and associate professor, discuss baller scholarship about PhD tenure placement statistics in several fields, and pass along some advice about how to tackle teaching in graduate school. Baller Scholarship: "So You Want to Become a Professor! " Lessons from the PhDs - 10 Years Later Study by Maresi Nerad, Rebecca Aanerud, & Joseph Cerny in Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty, eds. Donald H. Wulff, Ann E. Austin, & Associates Sauce: http://www.education.uw.edu/cirge/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/so-you-want-to-become-a-professor.pdf Weekly Recommendations: GradHacker.org (Now "Inside Higher Ed") https://www.insidehighered.com Take all of the money! Department grants Internal conference gr