Graduate school can bring pressures to follow specific career paths. It doesn’t have to be this way. Melissa Bostrom, Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Professional Development at Duke University, discussed this topic on episode 7 of the Informational Interview 2.0 podcast. Melissa and co-host Heidi Scott Giusto discussed: The role of building a digital footprint to generate …
Why Professors Should Disseminate their Knowledge and Share Opinions to Public Audiences
Professors have a megaphone to the world. There are incredible opportunities for academics to communicate their knowledge with the general public through traditional and social media. While many don’t for various reasons, there are a number of professors who are doing this incredibly well. One such individual is Mark Anthony Neal, an African American studies professor at Duke University and author …
The blogging machine: #FollowFriday Professor 3, Mark Anthony Neal
#FollowFriday Professor is an editorial series focused on professors’ best practice in digital communications. Every Friday, I highlight one academic who is strategically leveraging the power of digital communications. The goal of this feature is that if you are an academic or thought leader looking to establish an online presence, you will be able to draw on this archive and use it as a source …