HigherEd Careers

Most scientists agree that being a successful researcher is a very challenging career. We know careers in Academia can be challenging. What happens when you try to do both? This month we chat with one of the leading Tuberculosis researchers in the world, Dr. Scott Franzblau at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Franzblau shares his insights on funding his institute's scientific research, working in Academia and how to best position yourself to participate in the research process...

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Scott G. Franzblau, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Institute for Tuberculosis Research, University of Illinois at Chicago

When six different student affairs associations worked together and created The Placement Exchange to offer an annual interview and career services event, we immediately became a supporter. Chicago will host the third annual Placement Exchange from March 4th through the 7th. For the cost of a couple of weeks of lattes in registration fees, a candidate can possibly network or interview with scores of student affairs departments...

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Jenna Hyatt
Director, Residence Life & New Student Programs at Central Washington University

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Nam Nguyen
Associate Director for Student Organizations & Leadership at San Jose State University

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Lesley-Ann Brown
Program Advisor, Department of Multicultural Services at Texas A&M University

We end our chats in 2009 with the most intimate chat of all, our own Chief Information Officer and Co-Founder, Eric Blessner. Eric is truly the soul of HigherEdJobs.com as he is the person ultimately responsible for making sure your experience is all it can be. His dedication to crafting a unique academic job board experience has been his passion since the site opened in 1996. Eric shares with us his philosophy on academic job searches, his favorite HigherEdJobs features, and shares a few secrets of job search success with us this mont...

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Eric Blessner
Chief Information Officer and Co-Founder, HigherEdJobs.com

Twitter. Blogger. LinkedIn. A few short years ago, none of these Social Media sites would have been at the top of your list as career tools. However, many people today include them on their lists but still are not sure how exactly they fit into their academic job searches, let alone their careers. We spend some time this month with Rick Klau who heads up Google's Blogger product. In addition to learning about Rick's "Niner" love and how he was a blogger for a future President, we were privileged to get Rick to share his deep knowledge about how people communicate on the internet and his insights into how it can help you in your career and job search....

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Rick Klau
Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google

It is important to remember that we have the honor of shaping the lives of the students who attend our colleges and universities. In pursuit of furthering this honor, many new professionals choose student affairs as their entrance into a career in higher education. It is one of the most popular job posting and search categories on HigherEdJobs.com. We had the opportunity this month to take an in-depth look at the process of a new professional's job search in student affairs with one of the leaders in the field...

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Lori Reesor, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Provost for Student Success, University of Kansas

After being the centerpiece of the education platform of a winning presidential campaign, community colleges have stayed at the forefront of higher education discussions for many months now. Our conversation this month explores current topics at community colleges including enrollment, faculty recruitment and, of all things, a situation comedy...

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Shirley Robinson Pippins, EdD
Senior Vice President for Programs and Services, American Council on Education