WelcomeYour Next Chapter is Academics Only is a "how-to" community for anyone interested in academia. It's specifically intended to grow into a collection of best practices that's super helpful to new people: frustrated PhD students, anxious new professors, and independent scholars. There's separate resource tabs for each group. Academia shines most brightly when it's cooperative. Here's a place where we can share the ideas, strategies, and systems that we think will help others. For instance, if you created a useful Teaching Tip Sheet, here's where you could share it. If you read a helpful article on how to write more clearly, here's where we could post a link. If your advisor gave you a great template creating a conference poster, here's where they could share it. It's for basically anything you personally created or discovered that you've found used and that could help others.
You can either send me what you have, or you direct me to what you discovered and I'll track down the author. Also, you can either post it with your name or post it anonymously. Just shoot me an email ([email protected]) and we can schedule a call if you wish.
Academia can be incredibly rewarding -- for you, your students, and those influenced by your research and other projects. I hope some of the ideas here can help speed you down that road so you can have a bigger impact and a lot of fun. Let me know what might help you most. You feel very alone, but you're not alone: √ CEOs and top executives are fired √ Physicians lose their license √ Ministers are defrocked √ Professors become unemployable √ Therapists have their license revoked √ Lawyers are disbarred √ Teachers lose their accreditation If any of those situations apply to you, then you’ve come to the right place. We want to help you with two things. First, we want to help you get back on your feet and thrive once again. Second, we want to help you find a new sense of purpose -- hopefully one that makes the world a better place. The Your Next Chapter community is anonymous and free. We're self-funded and not sponsored or affiliated with any association, movement, company, religion, or not-for-profit organization. Use this community to help yourself, to help your family, and then to help others. If you are new to this page and in the middle of a traumatic experience, there is only one thing to focus on for right now: 1. Read the Find Allies page. Here's what's worked (and what's backfired) for some of us. Finding allies and spending time with them is the first step you need to take. After taking this first step, we can better help you find what steps are best for you to take next. Recovering is an ongoing process. We've all been through a lot. Let's make sure it was "worth it." That story will be Your Next Chapter. |
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