Month: March 2015
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Transition Q & A: Nicholas Dion
How does a religious studies PhD wind up working as a senior coordinator at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario? Read this week’s Q & A over at University Affairs to find out! Nick spent months exploring his options beyond academia, and was proactive in his job search toward the end of his degree.…
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Transition Q & A: Daveena Tauber
Rutgers English PhD Daveena Tauber is forging a career for herself in higher education, but from the outside. Read her transition story over at University Affairs. An excerpt: What do you do now? At this point, I am an established writing consultant who specializes in working with graduate programs and graduate students. The first part…
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Striking for a better now, and a better future
This week’s post for University Affairs is my contribution to the debates about the strikes happening here in Toronto, and especially the situation at the University of Toronto, where I do my PhD in the Department of History. I quote from a marvelous open letter written by an English professor, and from a memoir I…
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Transition Q & A: Kara Santokie
My friend Kara worked as a professor in Bangladesh for a year after earning her PhD in political science, then returned to Toronto — she did her PhD at U of T — and found a job managing programs for a local nonprofit organization. Since then, she’s been promoted to executive director. Read her story…