How to Write More (Spoiler Alert: It’s Not About Time)
“What’s the biggest obstacle between you and writing more?” -this is the question we often ask our clients. Here’s what they say: “Time!” “Time management and my teaching load at a teaching intensive university” “Time and motivation” “Distractions, time, fear of...
What Should Going Up for Tenure Feel Like?
Going up for tenure brings up all the feelings. Maybe the most salient one is fear. Fear that you won’t get tenured, which would mean going on the (also scary) market, moving to another town, uprooting your family. Fear that your sneaky suspicion that your colleagues...
Five Project Management Skills Every Academic Needs to Know
The very nature of academic work means that we have to juggle. The three pillars of our work–research, teaching, and service–outline a daily working life where we are pulled in at least as many directions (though in reality, it is many more). Because of...
From Sticky Notes to Systems: How I Organized My Academic Life
I really don’t consider myself super organized. So it might seem strange for me to have created a course called “Organize Your Academic Life.” But of course, I didn’t always have a complete system in place for organizing my academic projects. And maybe you don’t right...
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