The PublicsLab is in search of a part-time Program Coordinator/College Assistant for the 2019–20 academic year (and beyond). DEADLINE: 1 August 2019.
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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.
Sean Gerrity, assistant professor of English at Hostos Community College, reflects on public scholarship and offers advice for how to do it well.
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.”
