A big topic of conversation in the higher education media is the mismatch between secure academic positions (tenure-track jobs if you are in North America) and the number of PhDs being awarded. A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “I’ve Got Tenure, How Depressing”, highlights the fact that even getting one of those [...]
mid-career blahs
Posted on February 9, 2012 by Jo VanEvery
Filed Under: Career Planning, My services Tagged With: coaching, goals, mid-career, post-tenure
How I help mid-career academics
Posted on April 21, 2011 by Jo VanEvery
You’d think that once you get that academic job and get through whatever process you have to go through to keep it (tenure, probation, or whatever it’s called where you live), it would be plain sailing. You have been judged by your peers to know what you are doing and be doing it well. Unfortunately, [...]
Filed Under: Career Planning, My services Tagged With: blogging, chair, coaching, confirmation, full professor, knowledge mobilization, mid-career, mid-life, prestige, probation, professional women, social media, tenure, wider impact, work-life balance
Believe it or not, I do this for a living
Posted on October 1, 2010 by Jo VanEvery
I never would have imagined it were possible. Given that there was no internet when I was a teenager, running my own business over the internet is obviously not something I’ve wanted to do forever. In fact, running my own business at all only came to me as an option fairly late in the game. [...]
Filed Under: My services Tagged With: academic, blog, business, career change, coaching, early career, humanities, joy, mid-career, Naomi Dunford, PhD, social sciences, University Affairs
