Life Of E's

One of my Life of E’s members sent in this question for today’s Email Extravaganza:
When I teach, I often want to use supplemental material (or even need to because the text I use doesn’t cover something). What guidelines must I follow to ensure I’m not violating copyright? If it’s just a section of a text, [...]

Tags: avoid plagiarism, classroom, college, copyright infringement, fair use, guidelines, Professors, teachers

As Lynne Ford says, ‘failure is a comma, not a period.’ 

This is the theme of this series of posts.  As you observe the failures that you have experienced (and that you will again) consider the truth of this statement: 
2.  Some failures are major reliefs.  Let’s say you submitted a proposal for a large federal [...]

Tags: academia, failure, federal grant, projects, stress, success

“Failure is a comma, not a period.’  Lynne Ford

What a great quote!  You’ve failed before…and apparently, if you’re reading this, you’ve lived to tell about it.  This series of posts will give you 5 ways to think about “failures.”  Consider these as you observe failures that you are experiencing (and will again!).

Some failures are huge [...]

Tags: choices, control, decisions, failure, lesson, Lynne Ford, relief

 Toxic academic work environments are defined by many attributes including the following:

Persistence

Persistence
A defining aspect of a toxic academic work environment is whether or not the behavior persists. Are you experiencing a situation that even after talking with someone about particular behaviors, attitudes, or something else, the person persists – or it even [...]

Tags: academic bullying, Professors, stress, toxic work environment

Toxic academic work environments are defined by many attributes including the following:

Severity

Severity
The severity is a key issue to take a look at. When someone murmurs “Oh gosh, I can’t believe we’ve got this meeting again” or, “Who made her queen?” or similar statements that sometimes people make, that’s not that the end [...]

Tags: academic bullying, Professors, stress, toxic work environment

Toxic academic work environments are defined by many attributes including the following:

The length of time it’s been continuing

Length of time
The first attribute to consider is ‘length of time’ that the unpleasantness has been going on. When you experience a day where it just seems like everybody is just biting each other’s heads off, [...]

Tags: Academic Ladder, Gina Hiatt, toxic, work environment

Toxic academic work environments are defined by many attributes including the following:

Loss of good people

Loss of good people
In a toxic environment, you also start to notice that you’re losing good people. Either you lose them altogether or you keep them physically but you lose them mentally and emotionally. Administrators must pay attention [...]

Tags: academic bullying, Professors, stress, toxic work environment

Toxic academic work environments are defined by many attributes including the following:

Effect on employees, students, public, &/or shareholders

Effect on employees, students, public, &/or shareholders
Another defining aspect is the effect that the rudeness, fear, or negativity is having. When it has a deleterious effect on the people who work in a department, in [...]

Tags: academic bullying, Professors, stress, toxic work environment

Based on my experience (and thinking about it A LOT!) there are five phases to helping yourself get things under control: capturing, collecting, culling, consciously ordering, and then carrying out. This post focuses on phase 3, culling. During this phase you make decisions on the items that you have – and it’s the decision-making process that’s [...]

Tags: captured, capturing, clutter, culling, educators, reference

The May ‘Third Thursday Productivity Time focused on ‘Decluttering and De-stressing.’  One of the participants who is a university professor (and who also manages a lab) sent this to me after she downloaded the free Special Report “Rid Your Workspace of Clutter.” 

Meggin,
My 15 and 19 year-old daughters made labels for my boxes and I have hired [...]