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The Chronicle of Higher Education

How Administrators Can Help Ph.D.s Prepare for Nonfaculty Careers
By L. Maren Wood, 01/29/2017
Helping History Ph.D.s Expand Their Job Options
By Vimal Patel, 01/29/2017
Opening Doors for the Ph.D
By Vimal Patel, 01/29/2017
Admin 101:Deciding to Lead
By David D. Perlmutter, 1/1/2017.
From Doctoral Study to Administration
by Jennifer S. Furlong and Julie Miller Vick, 12/18/2016.
So You Think You Want a Tenure-Track Job?
By Liz Swan (Chronicle Vitae), 6/14/2016.

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Here are some of the many reasons why a PhD reconsidered that career goal.
Switching Tracks in Academe
By Jessica Ehinger (Chronicle Vitae), 6/9/2016.
Why New Humanities Ph.Ds Should Leave the Country
By Scott T. Gibson, 5/19/2016.
When the Job Search Seems Hopeless
By Jenny Furlong, Dir. Career Planning & Professional Development, CUNY Graduate Center and Julie Miller Vick, Career Services, U. Penn (Chronicle Vitae), 2/26/2016.
What would Doctoral Education Look Like in 2026
By Leonard Cassuto, 1/3/2016.
How do we define student success in the humanities?
By Paula Krebs, 11/17/2015.
Figuring out Where you want to land after graduate school
By Eric Anthony Grollman (Chronicle Vitae), 11/11/2015.
Information Technology: The Accidental Career for Ph.D.s.
By Joshua B. Gross, 7/29/2015.

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The question is not whether IT work is suitable, but what kind of IT work is suitable.
For the humanities, some good news is mixed with the bad.
By Madeline Will, 4/13/2015.
The Problem with Professionalization
by Leonard Cassuto, 03/23/2015.
The Dissertation: Then, Now, and What Next?
by Leonard Cassuto, 11/24/2014.
A move to bring staff scholars out of the shadows.
By Donna M. Bickford & Anne Mitchell Whisnant, 11/25/2013.
Scholarly groups take on a taboo topic: Jobs outside academe.
By Lindsay Ellis, 9/30/2013.
How we reached this point, Part 2
By Julie Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong, 9/19/2013.

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A look back at the trends that have created the crisis that academe now faces in graduate education.
How we reached this point, Part 1.
By Julie Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong, 9/18/2013.
Who prepares humanities Ph.D.’s for a nonacademic search?
By L. Maren Wood and Beatrice Gurwitz, 7/15/2013.
The 'alt-ac' track: Careers without tenure.
By Jennifer Howard, 1/6/2013.
In search of hard data on nonacademic careers.
By Leonard Cassuto, 9/3/2012.
Pannapacker at MLA: Alt-ac is the future of the academy.
By William Pannapacker, 1/8/2012.
More universities break the taboo and talk to Ph.D.’s about jobs outside academe.
By Audrey Williams June, 11/6/2011.
Canada prepares young researchers for nonacademic careers.
By Jennifer Lewington, 9/7/2011.
Building a corps of adminstrator-scholars.
By Donna M. Bickford & Anne Mitchell Whisnant, 10/14/2010.
Every Ph.D. needs a plan B.
By Alexandra M. Lord, 3/16/2009.

Daily Tar Heel

Non-tenured faculty hope for better working conditions. By Hayley Fowler & Sarah Brown, 9/24/2014.

InsideHigherEd

Taking an Unexpected Turn, by Adriana Bankston. December 19, 2016.

Beyond Faculty Careers, by Colleen Flaherty, 10/21/2015. New NEH grants to support changes in humanities Ph.D. programs.

Time for a New Strategy, by Christopher Newfield, 7/20/2015

'Alt-Ac' Realities. By Carl Straumsheim, 4/30/2013.

New York Times

The repurposed Ph.D.: Finding life after academia - and not feeling bad about it. By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, 11/3/2013, NYT Education Supplement, pp. ED32.

Slate

"Alt-Ac" to the Rescue?: A Changing View of Alt-Ac Jobs In Which PhDs Work Outside of Academia. By Rebecca Schuman, 9/18/2014.

The Atlantic

What can you do with a Humanities Ph.D., anyway? By Elizabeth Segran, 3/31/2014.

The Chronicle Advice Columns by Furlong & Vick

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Julie Miller Vick and Mary Morris Heiberger their Career Talk column for The Chronicle online jobs and advice site in 1998. In 2004, after Heiberger’s death, Vick was joined by Jennifer S. Furlong. In 2016, co-author Rosanne Lurie (senior associate director of career services for graduate students and postdocs at the University of Pennsylvania) joins their team .

Many of these columns provide advice for those seeking alternative academic careers or for those interested in a dual search for academic and altac positions.

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Other Media Outlets

Institute hosts conference as part of NEH Next Generation Ph.D grant initiative. by M. Clay. Institute for the Arts and Humanities. March 24, 2017.

A Plum Teaching Job--Off Campus. by Rob Jenkins, Vitae, 7/19/2016

Tenure, Fairness, and Fear(lesness), by Jebediah Purdy, Huffington Post, 9/9/2015.

So You Want to be a Tenured Ally, by Anna Peak, The Academe Blog, 8/31/2015.

'It's Gonna Be Forever or It's Gonna go Down in Flames': Tenure and Injustice, by Kelly J. Baker, The Marginalia Review of Books, 6/8/2015.

The Ph.D. Problem, by Louis Menand, Harvard Magazine, Nov/Dec 2009.