I was trained in the Sandy Darity school of academic presentations…and the Vivian school of self-defense. I think a lot of people should take their life classes. Because this kind of bullying is never OK and too few of us in academia train junior scholars on how to deal with it. Even fewer of us stand up for them when it happens. For that we should all be ashamed.
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For-Profit or Trad? How Do You Know And Why You Should Ask: College App Edition
My friend Akil Bello owns a professional admissions test prep company, the delightfully ironically named Bell Curves. Knowing my work, Akil was kind enough to ask me to offer some free advice on institutional types to young people preparing for college applications. There are a few reasons that I happily said yes. One, an IHEPRead More “For-Profit or Trad? How Do You Know And Why You Should Ask: College App Edition”
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Different Bodies & Different Lives In Academia: Why The Rules Aren’t The Same For Everyone
Part of professionalization in academia involves learning the unpublished rules of how to act, engage, and be an academic. Almost all of us, at some point of our training, is pulled aside and told the “real” rules of publishing, teaching, and cocktail mixers. Minorities – be they ethnic, class, or gendered – sometimes don’t getRead More “Different Bodies & Different Lives In Academia: Why The Rules Aren’t The Same For Everyone”