We Need All Those Ph.D.s in Nonteaching Jobs to Stay in Our Scholarly Societies

Associations encourage graduate students to seek nonfaculty careers and then lose them as members. Since taking over as executive director of the Modern Language Association, I’ve found myself posting online more often about issues related to our field — curriculum, advocacy for the humanities, the...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Chronicle of Higher Education 2018-06
1. Verfasser: Krebs, Paula M
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Associations encourage graduate students to seek nonfaculty careers and then lose them as members. Since taking over as executive director of the Modern Language Association, I’ve found myself posting online more often about issues related to our field — curriculum, advocacy for the humanities, the job market — and hearing back from all sorts of academic professionals. [...]many academic staff members — even those on the director level — aren’t eligible for professional-development funding and don’t have the disposable income that would permit them to pay regular dues to a scholarly association — at least, not without more tangible benefits aimed at them specifically. Paula M. Krebs is executive director of the Modern Language Association, former dean of the humanities-and-social-sciences college at Bridgewater State University, and a former professor of English at Wheaton College, in Mass.
ISSN:0009-5982
1931-1362