Yearly Archives: 2019

21 posts

Call for Proposals: Graduate Education at Work in the World (CLOSED)

Deadline: 15 October 2019. The Futures Initiative and PublicsLab of the Graduate Center, CUNY invite submissions for a free day-long conference and workshop: Graduate Education at Work in the World. The conference will bring together students, faculty, and administrators to collectively imagine and redesign graduate education to support students, scholarship, and the public good.

Research Ethics Intern (CLOSED)

FALL 2019. The Research Ethics Intern will manage the development of new standards and procedures related to human subjects protections in ACLU’s research efforts, including criteria for review, training opportunities, and resources for compliance, such as informed consent templates and other standard form language. Applications will be accepted until 10 June 2019.

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

Process Improvement and Evaluation Intern (CLOSED)

FALL 2019. The Process Improvement and Evaluation Intern will help support the ability of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House to create, analyze, and use data to improve client services, program operations, and organizational efficiency. The primary focus of this internship will be assisting in the development of a predicative algorithm to better balance caseloads in the Geriatric Care Management program. Applications will be accepted until 10 June 2019.

Let In the World

In the past five years, I have talked to a lot of people about why they chose not to pursue academic jobs after graduate school––a choice that is more common than people assume. Geography might be the number one reason that I hear; not everyone is willing to throw a dart at a map of North America (or the world, for that matter) and live wherever it lands, which is essentially what one does on the academic job market. But very close behind it is this:

“I found academic research in the humanities to be too isolating. Sitting in a library carrel alone all day made me miserable.”