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How do we change outcomes for advanced degrees, esp PhDs? How do we reshape our understanding of higher ed and what we're training for?
Here's what I believe...
@academicchatter #phdlife
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Here's what I believe...
@academicchatter #phdlife
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1. We stop treating the tenure-track as the golden ticket, and we stop judging success in relation to it.
Most PhDs will NOT have a TT Job, and it's time to stop deluding them our ourselves into thinking they will...
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Most PhDs will NOT have a TT Job, and it's time to stop deluding them our ourselves into thinking they will...
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2. Get actually excited about non-academic options.
Stop treating them like Plan B, or a backup, or a consolation prize, or a G-D- FAILURE.
PhDs beyond the academy often make more money, have more impact, and LOVE their work. Start celebrating them!
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Stop treating them like Plan B, or a backup, or a consolation prize, or a G-D- FAILURE.
PhDs beyond the academy often make more money, have more impact, and LOVE their work. Start celebrating them!
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3. Empower PhDs. They come out of academia as broken people, exhausted from climbing through hoops and being told they're never good enough...
This mindset has a negative effect and takes a long time to unlearn.
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This mindset has a negative effect and takes a long time to unlearn.
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Look beyond the university, stop believing it's the only place you can have impact, and send grads out into the world to use their abilities to radically transform it.
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I don't regret my PhD....
I regret that it took me so long to realize how to build a career with it.
I don't regret leaving academia...
I regret letting myself feel shame about leaving.
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I regret that it took me so long to realize how to build a career with it.
I don't regret leaving academia...
I regret letting myself feel shame about leaving.
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