Careers: August 2005 Archives

There's an excellent listserv run out of Stanford University's Center for Teaching and Learning called the Tomorrow's Professor Listserv. It's a wonderful resource for graduate students and faculty of all levels to think seriously about their pedagogy and how to be an effective teacher. There's also a very good link to an advice column on academic careers by Richard Reis. All in all, a must read.

Whether you are a grad student or junior faculty member, it is important to keep your grants and job searches organized. The deadlines are always different and have a tendency to creep up on you. Some people keep paper files and folders, but I am entirely electronic. I have a folder on my computer called "Jobs and Grants." Whenever I see a job posting, post-doc, or grant that I am interested in, I save as text a copy of the posting as a text file or PDF into a subfolder.