Three months ago I got my first faculty coaching client. The person was in a situation where the faculty line had been eliminated and they were facing the end of their job. We talked through their goals, their wishes, the emotional fallout of it all. We worked through the nuances of CVs, letters, and prepping for an interview series. A lot of academics aren’t always clear on the different nuances of types of universities- and those matter a lot when you are applying for an R1

When people ask me what I do, I usually say that I’m a social scientist. I’m in public health and I am a social worker and researcher. Human behavior is my favorite fascination. Most of the people that I know on this platform met me along the way in one of the positions that I have held in those fields. Here is something that many people don’t know about me- I quit college. Twice. Long before I made it to grad school, I thought that I was awful at learning and didn’t belong

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