{"id":16032,"date":"2013-10-10t12:04:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-10t17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=16032"},"modified":"2013-10-10t10:05:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10t15:05:24","slug":"the-mindful-phd-stories-of-the-slow-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2013\/10\/the-mindful-phd-stories-of-the-slow-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"the mindful phd: stories of the slow professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/themindfulphd\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"mindfulphd\" src=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/mindful-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>by <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/about\/staff\/#nancy\" target=\"_blank\">nancy chick, cft assistant director<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>last week, i attended my 10th consecutive conference of the international society for the scholarship of teaching and learning (<a href=\"http:\/\/issotl.com\" target=\"_blank\">issotl<\/a>)\u2013in  many ways, the highlight of my academic year, as it feels very much  like \u2018going home.\u2019  after five days, though, it\u2019s good to be back in my  real home, and i\u2019m grateful for a sunday to soothe my conference  hangover.  my presentations and conversations there consistently kept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josseybass.com\/wileycda\/wileytitle\/productcd-0470439718.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>faculty careers &amp; work lives<\/em><\/a> (o\u2019meara, terosky, &amp; neumann, 2008) on my mind. this book-length  study focuses on the language, tone, and storylines of the ways in which  we and others discuss our profession. based on their own work plus an  analysis of more than 1,000 books and articles, a thorough lit review on  the research, and works written by faculty themselves over the last 20  years, the authors point out that our dominant narrative is one of  \u201cconstraint\u201d (p. 2): full of barriers, outside forces, frustration, and  exhaustion, with language like \u201c\u2018just making it,\u2019 \u2018treading water,\u2019  \u2018dodging bullets,\u2019 or barely \u2018staying alive\u2019\u201d (p. 2).<a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/themindfulphd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong> more&#8230;.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>reposted from <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/themindfulphd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the mindfulness phd<\/em> blog<\/a>.<br \/>\nget the weekly blog by liking <em>the mindful phd<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/themindfulphd\" target=\"_blank\">facebook<\/a>, or following it on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/themindfulphd\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by nancy chick, cft assistant director last week, i attended my 10th consecutive conference of the international society for the scholarship of teaching and learning (issotl)\u2013in many ways, the highlight of my academic year, as it feels very much like \u2018going home.\u2019 after five days, though, it\u2019s good to be back in my real home,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":15321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[167,207],"tags":[228],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154607\/mindful-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}