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What Do YOU Value?

by | Apr 21, 2010

During a job search, it’s tempting to let your values take a back seat to getting the “right” job. It’s easy to spend more time looking at the duties listed in the job posting than looking at what isn’t found there: benefits, values, and institutional culture. Day in and day out, the overall picture of the position is what keeps us happy, motivated, and contributing to the success of our university, and to ourselves as people. Our job descriptions are not our life descriptions, people!

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#jobhunt No. 10: Round 2-Electric Boogaloo!

by | Apr 15, 2010

So now I’m starting the search over again, but it feels like a lot less pressure this time…. I’ve been rejected. It’s not fun. But I’ve learned it’s not the end of the world either.

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Everybody's Working for the Weekend (But Not Everyone Spends Those Weekends Taking Classes)

by | Apr 10, 2010

If you are considering part-time (or full-time from a distance) doctoral work, you’re going to want some flexibility at work.

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#jobhunt No. 9

by | Apr 8, 2010

[Rejection] sucks! I wish I could put it more eloquently, but there’s really no pretty way to say it. It is probably best described with that plane crash/explosion sound effect. I know that rejection can be a learning experience. What could I have done better? Differently? Sooner? Take time to evaluate the experience and my performance, make changes, and go at it again. But it’s an incredibly draining experience.

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Doctoral Student from a Distance

by | Apr 5, 2010

I’m currently a first-year doctoral student in the Higher Education Administration Ed.D. program at the George Washington University. While GWU offers a traditional doctoral program experience at their Foggy Bottom campus in the District of Columbia, I attend classes at the Virginia Campus near Dulles Airport. I have chosen the cohort program model that GWU offers. In this program, a number of students are admitted each fall. This cohort of students takes all of their courses together for the first two and a half years of the program, seven credits each semester during the fall, spring and summer.

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Is Your Life Just a Footnote in the Cosmic Scheme of Things? Or Something More?

by | Apr 4, 2010

The story of astronaut Edward Galen Givens is just one from the many people related to NASA, and to some, his life and career will seem one footnote on one page of one chapter of one book about mankind’s quest to explore the stars and the mysteries of the universe. But to me and to members of my family, and to those who knew him, Galen’s life and career represent something far greater: the archetypal quest to discover your life purpose, reach your potential and perhaps to push beyond into uncharted territory, where the greatest learning can begin.

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