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- Hands-on Workshops
- Subject Expert
- Highly Interactive
425 Session Participants for 13 Workshop Reviews : Stars 5.0 out of 5 overall
- Knowledge of Subject Material : 5 out of 5
- Engagement in Live Sessions : 4 out of 5
- Materials Provided Pre or Post Workshop : 4 out of 5
- Overall Knowledge Gained by Enrolling : 4 out of 5
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Reem Jaafar for Leaving Academia: A Summer Coaching Program for PhDs
Rating: 5 out of 5 -
Kathryn Mockler for Advice for the Pre-Tenure Years
Rating: 5 out of 5Excellent advice for pre-tenure professors.
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Arianne Boileau for Surviving Your First Year on the Tenure Track
Rating: 5 out of 5Straightforward, useful information about what to expect from the first year on the tenure track.
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Elena Cohen for Surviving Your First Year on the Tenure Track
Rating: 5 out of 5Great experience. Very knowledgeable & prepared, answered many questions.
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Yen-Fang Su for Surviving Your First Year on the Tenure Track
Rating: 5 out of 5Very informative speech and eased my nervousness about entering my first academic job.
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Yuting Zhao for Surviving Your First Year on the Tenure Track
Rating: 5 out of 5It was super helpful! I've already read a bunch of stuff online and still I learned new things from the workshop.
Bio
Hi, I am Dr. Karen Kelsky and I am the Founder and CEO of The Professor Is In, and more recently, The Professor Is Out. Since 2011 The Professor Is In has provided a full-service individual and institutional consultancy on the academic job search and all elements of the academic career. I am building The Professor Is Out initiative to focus more resources on assisting academics in the often painful and challenging process of transitioning out of academia.
I speak nationally and internationally on topics related to Ph.D. professionalization and career development, and I have been a columnist at Chronicle of Higher Education. As the creator of the Sexual Harassment in the Academy Survey and the #MeTooPhD hashtag, I also speak nationally on issues of sexual assault in the academy, with a focus on empowering victims and training people in leadership. Another area of activism is on graduate school student debt. I am a former tenured professor and department head at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Oregon. My book The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job (Random House 2015), is going into a second edition. Check out the Professor Is In podcast. Also, find me on Facebook at The Professor Is In and The Professor Is Out, on Twitter, and in my 2021 TEDx talk, Academia Is a Cult.
The workshop provides the space, the community, and the initial information needed to assist participants in examining and pursuing alternative opportunities.
Plus: a bonus guest speaker.