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January, 2011 |
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How to Make Resolutions That Don't Make you Crazy
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| Less Stress and More Success |
Free Teleclass!
Stress and Success in Higher Education: How to Make Resolutions That Don't Make you Crazy
Date and Time: Thursday, January 20th, 2011, 6-7:00pm EST
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Come join Mary Beth Averill and Hillary Hutchinson as give you several pointers for making and keeping resolutions for the new year without guilt and suffering.
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Heading for Tomorrow, Today: Free Visioning and Goal Setting Teleseminar for Academics
This free 75-minute teleseminar will cover:
- The power of the questions we ask ourselves;
- What visioning is, and why it's important; and
- How to get from point A to point B by setting particular goals.
Date and Time: Tuesday, January 18th, 2011, 3-4:30pm EST
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Hillary Hutchinson,
M.A., M.Ed.,
is a certified career coach with a specialty in helping faculty, administrators and graduate students achieve their goals.
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| Dear Subscriber,
This newsletter aims to help academics at any stage in their career achieve professional success and personal fulfillment.
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"And the day came when the risk to remain in a tight bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anaïs Nin. |
Leaving Academia? 5 Questions for MidLife Career Changers
Dr. Robert Vallerand, a professor of psychology at the University of Quebec, Montreal has studied passion which he defines as "...engaging on a regular basis in an activity that we dearly love, find important and that resonates with who we are." His research identifies two forms of passion: obsessive passion-where the passion controls the person - and harmonious passion - where the person controls the passion. Guess which one is useful and which one is harmful for a career changer? When considering career plans or career transitions, one is often advised to "follow the passion" and a career path will emerge. However, there are two problems with this: 1) There is no direct correlation between "doing what you love" and the money your earn (I think most academics have experienced this!); and 2) Dr. Vallerand's research showed 15-25% of his respondents did not even have identifiable passions. If you are considering leaving academia, instead of relying on passion to determine the next step, ask yourself these questions: Read more>>
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| Adrianna Kezar, an associate professor of higher education at the U. of Southern California, says non-tenure-track instructors often lack resources. |
Tenure, RIP: What the Vanishing Status Means for the Future of Education
In January 2011, it's worth revisiting the issue of the status of tenure in the US, given the decline to 27% of professors that actually have tenure now. Robin Wilson discussed an innocuously titled report in July 2010, "Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2009," released by the U.S. Department of Education. The article noted the report won't say it's about the demise of tenure. But that's what it will show. Read more >>
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| Don't Slow Down Job Search |
Job Hunting During the Holidays
If you missed the article on Searching for a job in the holiday season last month, watch my interview with Laura Harris on Lowcountry Live 11/24/2010 (Channel 4 News in Charleston) here >> |
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