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We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this fascinating report on research administrator rule breaking and workaround behaviors. Read the paper here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0095399720947994 I’m shocked! Shocked to find that workaround behaviors are going on in our most noble profession. yOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES! Death by a Thousand 10-Minute Tasks: Workarounds and […]

One of the most critical weapons in my arsenal is my professional portfolio. My portfolio is both an electronic file on my computer and a physical 3-ring binder with page protectors. The portfolio is an extensive physical record of my entire professional career. Every annual employee review, every university transcript, every poster and publication, every […]

Before you begin writing your application, it is important to keep in mind that it is often the very basic application instructions that lead to failure. It is often all too easy to forget our elementary school teacher’s motto: “Read the instructions first!” In preparation for writing your proposal, you should obtain the most recent […]

This is the second part of a two-part article aimed at describing the common elements of adaptive work such as adaptive challenge, demand for learning, responsibility shifts, cultural theories, and the timeframe of adaptive change within the context of the research administration profession during COVID-19. Read Part 1 here. An adaptive challenge often requires everyone on […]

An adaptive challenge often requires everyone on the team to change daily activities, workplace strategies, and professional preconceptions in order to adapt, survive, and thrive in a changing world. Does that situation sound familiar? The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) represents perhaps the largest global adaptive challenge humanity has faced in the last century.  Read more on […]

When I was an undergraduate, I loved Christmas break because it meant that I could read whatever I wanted to read. As an English Major, I was reading 400-500 pages a day of Chaucer, Dickens, Austen, and Shakespeare. But on Christmas Break, I could snuggle up with Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings without […]