Posted on June 23rd, 2009, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
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 [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2009, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
Ten Ways to Grow a Backbone (by Gina Hiatt of The Academic Ladder; shared with permission) “Oh, good,” I said to myself, “Here are some of the books I ordered. I hope these are the ones about dealing with back pain.” The first book on the pile in the box was How to Grow a [...]
Tags: assertiveness, backbone, Gina Hiatt, graduate students, higher education, Meggin McIntosh, Professors, Susan Marshall, toxic
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