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Cover letters, however, must be customized to each position for which you are applying. The cover letter should enhance, expand on, or explain the information in your resume.
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The University is undergoing a massive cultural change… migrating to Google apps the email and calendars of thousands of students, staff and faculty in the next few months. As an “early migrator” and unit liaison, I’ve been anticipating the Google changes, exploring how things will operate differently, thinking about how I can accommodate my work style with new tools.
“Center for the Education of Women? Why is that needed? When will there be a Center for the Education of Men?” I’m asked this question, or one like it, all too often. It comes in various formats, not always as questions: “Women now make up over 50% of college students,” “Women students today don’t identify as feminists,” “I know several women who are (choose one: engineers, scientists, doctors, vice-presidents).”
Now Science – one of the most respected journals...
Reflecting back on the past year, I thought about some of the strides women made here in the US and around the world. I spend much of the year making others aware of issues and concerns that are of particular importance to women: the glass ceiling, pay equity, recession recovery, sexism in popular culture, and so on. It took the quiet time of the first week back at work for me to stop and think about where and what women achieved in 2011....
Sexual harassment has been in the news lately, as presidential candidate Herman Cain has suspended his campaign following disclosure of a series of sexual harassment allegations serious enough to result in financial settlements. CEW's Associate Director Susan Kaufmann provided this guest blog post that explores the definitions of sexual harassment and the prevalence of sexual harassment at school and at work.
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits sexual harassment...
The holiday season is well underway – even as I travel into northern Michigan I can find radio stations playing 24/7 Christmas music, pass crowded parking lots at malls ranging from outlet stores to high-end shopping, and see holiday light displays ranging from understated to completely over the top. The holiday season brings a certain frenetic busy-ness that’s great for socializing, but to job searchers this time of year can feel like a desert.
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Have we made progress on women’s issues? As with many other questions about American society, the answer is yes, and no.
Yesterday, Sara Paretsky was the speaker at CEW’s Mullin Welch Lecture. Known primarily as a mystery writer for her V I Warshawski series, Paretsky’s talk indicated that her genre-bending female detective arose from Paretsky’s own experiences and involvement in feminism. In her series of crime novels, Paretsky has confronted a variety of social issues from...
In my last blog, I talked about how graduate school differs from undergrad. Given that you may dealing with some new demands, concerns or issues, this posting will direct you to resources both on and off campus that are directly related to graduate students.
First, at the University of Michigan…the Rackham Graduate School includes many of the MA and PhD programs in the social sciences and humanities. Their website includes a...
So, you've made the step from college to graduate school. In many ways it seems much the same: required coursework, paper deadlines, even exams. But there are some clear differences between being an undergraduate student and a graduate student and it helps to be aware of those early on.
#1 - You're an adult. For the most part, graduate school no longer retains the "campus/student" atmosphere. Many in your cohort may have partners, children, former jobs or...
I just spent a weekend with several friends from my high school years – a few who I’d not seen or talked with for nearly 40 years. Besides sharing wonderful memories, catching up on parents aging or deceased, reverting to nicknames, and meeting spouses and partners, we asked ourselves and each other multiple times “Why didn’t we stay in touch?”
Had I stayed in touch (otherwise known as networking), I could have visited an authentic 18th century Connecticut house on my vacation...
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