Tara Milliken ✨

If the position description includes specific qualifications, speak to those in your materials! Good candidates get passed over because they don’t connect their experiences and skills to the position(s) they are applying to. Don’t make a search committee guess—be explicit and connect the dots!

Currently reviewing application materials as part of a search committee I’m on for a campus partner—there are 111 applicants.

If you are currently seeking new opportunities, I am *begging* you to tailor your cover letter and resume to the specific role/type of work you’re applying to.

This healthcare ceo is hard to talk about because how much death can you cause indirectly before you’re a murderer who got murdered? How do you convince yourself it doesn’t count if you kill people with policy instead of a gun? What do you have to believe about life and systems and human worthiness?

Really excited for this, Kevin! Congratulations! 🎉

Advice | Sick and Still on the Job Employees dealing with life’s hardships find institutional support to be highly uneven. How to fix that.

How do we better support faculty and staff navigating personal hardship, such as a chronic illness or caring for a aging parent? I explore that question in the new installment of Working Better, my column in @chronicle.com.
www.chronicle.com/article/sick...

This was a good day. I love these people and our association very much. 🩶

Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.

Finally finished reading The Serpent & The Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent—the last 10 chapters have me completely shook from all the plot twists.

*immediately downloads The Ashes & The Star-Cursed King* 📖

The Boy from Jurassic Park’s College Application Essay Claws scrabbled at the door, each scratch a shock of fear to my heart. Inside the kitchen, my sister and I hid behind a stainless steel table, slic...

"The adult traits I acquired surviving dinosaurs will make me an enthusiastic and passionate member of a college community, whether I brave a Friday night dance or experiment in a new discipline, such as figure drawing."

Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.

Support your local academic libraries, which are already being targeted for reduction or removal by campus administrators. truthout.org/articles/fac...

Looking for others in Higher Education & Student Affairs!
Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #HESA
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Yes, please! And thank you for pulling this together!