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It's that time of year! How to beat stress with your self-care super powers
Lynne Lafave
"While we may practice good self-care during the year, in this time crunch portion of the term, these habits tend to give way to less supportive patterns..."
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From burnout to Green Days: some tips for battling mental and physical exhaustion
Mirjam Knapik
"In addition to feeling exhausted, we can present with sarcasm that has lost its humour, a growing cynicism marked by hopelessness, and scepticism that lacks curiosity..."
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An empathe's guide to surviving academe
Rose Ernst: Inside Higher Ed
"The promise of social justice, nurturing students, producing scholarship that has an impact, becoming a community organizer and having a flexible schedule are all reasons caring people are drawn to the academy..."
The 40-year-old burnout: Why I gave up tenure for a yet-to-be
determined career
Jonathan Malesic : The Chronicle of Higher Education
"...Many of those suffering from burnout have no appealing way out. That is bad not just for them but also for their students and for the profession in general."
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4 Ideas for avoiding faculty burnout
David Gooblar: The Chronicle of Higher Education
"I’m more and more convinced that faculty well-being is a pedagogical issue. The more I teach, and the more I think and write about teaching, the more I believe teaching should be thought of as among the human-services professions..."
Honest academic job postings
Ryan Weber: McSweeney's
The Economics department is hiring an assistant professor to fulfill all the service responsibilities that tenured faculty members refuse to do.
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