William Rodney Herring

Lecture on Getting an Academic Job:
http://www.davidschmidtz.com/videos/deserving-succeed

Among the best points:
1. Fear of failure will make you #3 in every search
2. Prioritizing comparative success will diminish your work
3. Your success (or lack thereof) is not a crisis for your academic advisor.

I admit, #3 makes me apprehensive -- I'm not there yet, and I only advise BA and MA students.

--db

Publishing strategies, for those of us not Harvard Bound.
FROM: http://www.newappsblog.com/2012/07/publishing-strategies-for-those-of-us...

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Jeff Rice breaks down the Job Search
http://ydog.net/?p=1758

REQUIRED READING

Bon Voyage, Desiree and Ben!

See: http://thecriticallede.com/the-transition-episode/

I will miss your energy. Even though you clearly should have done more rhetoric. Hopefully the new folks are cooler.

Though it is unlikely. You were pretty cool.

From http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/nedra-reynolds/criminal-commentar...

From: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/05/16/social-class-and-the-col...

Sociologist Alexandria Walton Radford has some new research that is rather disheartening. Radford was interested in the college choices of ambitious and high-performing high school students from different class backgrounds. Using a data set with about 900 high school valedictorians, she asked whether students applied to highly selective colleges, if they got in, and whether they matriculated.

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From http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/05/21/tv-vs-the-movies-which-d...

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Nola Heidlebaugh, nola.heidlebaugh@oswego.edu

The following story relates to the discussion of pay-for-publication journals.
--Nola Heidlebaugh
SUNY Oswego

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/15/184233141/publisher-threa...

Publisher Threatens Librarian With $1 Billion Lawsuit
by Bill Chappell
- May 15, 2013

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PRE/TEXT:
A JOURNAL OF RHETORICAL THEORY
21.1-4 Spring-Winter 2001 (in print 2011)

F o o d T h e o r y

Introduction
Jenny Edbauer Rice and Jeff Rice 5

The Good Body, Skilled in Eating
Donovan Conley 9

Food for Thought
Phillip Foss 35

Un(Loveable) Food
Jenny Edbauer Rice 39

Love In The Time of Global Warming
Mark Stern 47

The Organic Libertarian: How Deregulation Should Benefit Small Farms
Eric Reuter 69

Consuming Iowa, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Earl Butz
David M. Grant 77

The Urban Food Database and the Pedagogy of Attunement

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The Improbable Source
from: http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2013/04/unlikely-conversations-and-...

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From another site (anonymous):

When I was an MA student, I remember sending out emails to people I really wanted to work with in PhD programs. One rhetoric person in particular--someone I really wanted to work with--wrote back to tell me that her program really wasn't a good place for me. She was in a "very traditional English Department," where people focused on literature in pretty traditional ways.

At the time, I remember feeling like her answer was strange. Didn't she want a student to work with her? Wouldn't she, a rhetoric scholar, want to have a rhetoric PhD student there?

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From: http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/newspaper-and-magazine-layout-disasters

From: http://michaeljfaris.tumblr.com/post/49917671484/gender-bias-found-in-ho...
and from http://ninja-suffragette.tumblr.com/post/47688300493/gender-bias-found-i...
Original release here: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/matilda.htm

This almost hurts to read.

...

“The participants were reading abstracts of 150 words or so and rating their quality. The author names were not displayed prominently and the grad students probably barely glanced at them -- but still they had this effect,” Knobloch-Westerwick said.

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May 06, 2013
The RSA Awards Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 RSA Doctoral Dissertation Award and the 2013 RSA Book Award. Both award recipients will be recognized at the RSA Institute this upcoming June in Lawrence, Kansas, with a public citation on Friday June 7 at the luncheon; both recipients will be recognized again during the luncheon at RSA 14 at San Antonio, Texas.

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Visit this site to learn about the library at Guantanamo.
http://gitmobooks.tumblr.com/

A recent set of conversations with colleagues leads me to articulate changes in my grading in the last three years. They are strategic changes which have left my overall curve unchanged, but they have changed my relationships to my students and the relationship to writing that I seek to communicate with my students.

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Via NewAPPS:

anyone else notice these correlations?
by Jon Cogburn

"During my five or six years in graduate school two pretty strong correlations held up: (1) married students (at least the majority whose spouses were not academics) who did not have children were much less likely to complete the PhD than unmarried students, (2) married students with children were much more likely to complete the PhD than unmarried students."

Does this blogger's anecdotal experience seem generalizable to you?

Via ProfHacker:
In the New York Times, Chronicle editor Jeffrey J. Selingo wonders whether it much matters what students choose for their majors. His conclusion? Not as much as the experiences they choose within their chosen field.

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