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ACADEMICS ONLY

Academics Only

Phd Students • New Profs • Sch0lars


Welcome . . .
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Academics Only is a "how-to" community for anyone interested in academia.  It's specifically intended to grow into a community collection of best practices that's helpful to three groups people:
​1)  PhD students, 2) new professors, and 3) independent scholars. 
The ideas and advice here will hopefully help you speed down the right road with the fewest false-starts, wrong turns, and dead-ends.

This is also a place where you can take the ideas and strategies that have worked for you and share them with others.  It's another place where you can pay it forward.  

Academia can be incredibly rewarding -- for you, your students, and for those influenced by your research and other projects.  Let us know how we can help.




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Academics Only . . .
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is a how-to community to help finish your PhD, get a great job, teach better, publish more, get tenure, and to live a happy and impactful life.


Recent Additions

For PhD Students

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Impress Your Advisor (Kuznet's Lab - Columbia)
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How to Choose the Best PhD Advisor for You

For New Professors

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Tips from New Profs (UNC)
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Large Class Tips (Jennifer Gonzalez)

For Independent Scholars

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12 Success Stories (Vrije Universiteit - Amsterdam)
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Non-Academic Job Search Tools (Michigan)

​* Header photo:  Duke Library, David M. Rubenstein Collection, Creative Commons; Footer photo: Tamás Mészáros at Piqsels, Creative Commons.

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Share Your Insights and Ideas

What have you created or found that's been useful and could be helpful for other PhD students, new professors, or independent scholars?  ​
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  • A pdf handout on teaching 
  • Tips on surviving grad school
  • Favorite career-advice articles
  • A paper submission checklist 
  • A list of inspirational quotes
  • A productivity aid you use
  • ​​​​The goal-setting system you use
  • Your most useful go-to websites
  • Helpful academic How-to articles
  • A method to keep perspective or manage stress

​Send an email to AcademicsOnly@yahoo.com if you have something you think would be useful to share with others on this website
, or if you have ideas on how to make this more useful to you or your students.
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Stay in touch

If you want to know when new tools added, blogs written, videos made, or whatever, we can send you an update that points out what might be relevant to you.
Keep me posted