Ever since my undergraduate days, I’d heard the stories of how much harder it is to get a tenure-track job. From hiring freezes to budget cuts to people holding off on retirement to some universities relying more and more on part-time adjunct professors. Post-doctoral student Jeremy Yoder decided to track the data of two years worth of applying to tenure … Read More
Free essay consulting to students affected by travel ban & federal grant cuts
I cannot imagine being in a PhD program, and learning that my funding would be cut due to Federal grant cuts. I cannot imagine going through the difficulty of finding housing in a place I’d never been to before only to not make it past the airport. I cannot imagine saving my stipend for a plane ticket to my home … Read More
Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Already Harming American Science
In light of the unconstitutional executive order banning banning citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries—Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen—from entering America under any visa, for at least 120 days, I have been keeping a close watch on how this new order is impacting higher education students. The results so far are devastating, and I cannot overstate the impact … Read More