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Short and not sweet, from Eli Rabett: ******************** You lose The Search Committee

Would you want to get a letter like this? (Too?) Much Information Letter Dear [applicant name], We received 154 applications for our ...

--> Here are two more beautiful examples of the genre, each crazy-making in their own special way.  (By the way, I am not s...

Here are two entries in the Rejection Letter writing contest , including one (the first one) that is based on a real letter that may (or ma...

For the past couple of weeks I have been feeling occasionally distressed that I had not yet announced the theme of the annual Academic Writ...

During the question-and-answer time associated with talks at conferences or in department seminars, have you noticed any difference in how ...

Certainly I am not the first to realize that a proliferation of administrators at certain levels of academic institutions results in an inc...

Telling people (by letter, e-mail, or voice) that they are not getting a position for which they applied, or are not even being considered ...

Why can it be very great to be an administrator, at least certain kinds of administrator, such as department heads or program directors or ...

When I started this blog in 2006, my daughter was in elementary school. Now she is starting to think about college -- what type of institut...

Emma Pierson has written a very interesting article titled In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last . The article is filled with data a...

By request, this is a follow-up post on last week's musing about being the external letter-writer for someone's tenure/promotion ev...

Every year I get asked to write letters for the evaluation of faculty at other institutions for tenure and/or promotion. My typical thought...

Student comments on my teaching of a particular course: Great professor! I have enjoyed this class! I liked the readings. This course ...

A colleague and I were talking about this and that recently and he said that at some point he needs to find a new research topic, as the on...

Something that I have been seeing more and more in grant proposal reviews (my own and those of colleagues who have shared theirs with me) i...

A colleague recently shared a review of his (rejected) proposal. The most negative review contained this statement: There were a number o...

Although taking an exam is most certainly more stressful than giving an exam, giving an exam can be quite stressful. I am not asking for sy...

This is a poll I have done before (4 years ago), and I am interested to see if the results will be different now. I am curious about how of...

More than 3 years ago, I wrote a post about hiring postdocs . This post seems to have been linked to a site that diverts some traffic to my...