{"id":848,"date":"2016-04-21T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=848"},"modified":"2016-04-21T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T17:08:58","slug":"the-phdictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/04\/21\/the-phdictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"The PhDictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2016\/04\/21\/new-book-graduate-students-decodes-key-academic-life-terms-z\" target=\"_blank\">new book out on key terms in academic life<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From ABD to P&amp;T, higher education has its own language (and we\u2019re not even talking about discipline-specific jargon or academese). Most Ph.D. hopefuls become fluent via the immersion method (aka graduate school), but what if there was a dictionary of sorts to help out along the way? Now there is. <em>The PhDictionary: A Glossary of Things You Don\u2019t Know (but Should) About Doctoral and Faculty Life<\/em> (University of Chicago Press) decodes &#8212; in alphabetical order &#8212; 149 key terms for academics. Beyond basic definitions, author Herb Childress, co-founder of the consulting firm Teleidoscope Group and former dean of research and assessment at the Boston Architectural College, illuminates each term with stories about his own off-the-beaten-path journey through graduate school and the professoriate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to check this out.\u00a0In my last year of\u00a0graduate school,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Academic-Keywords-Devils-Dictionary-Education\/dp\/0415922038\" target=\"_blank\">Academic Keywords: A Devil&#8217;s Dictionary for Higher Education<\/a><\/em> was released, and it provided great insights as I prepared for my first appointment as a professor. It sounds like <em>The PhDictionary<\/em> will do the same for the next generation of aspiring academics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new book out on key terms in academic life: From ABD to P&amp;T, higher education has its own language (and we\u2019re not even talking about discipline-specific jargon or academese). Most Ph.D. hopefuls become fluent via the immersion method (aka graduate school), but what if there was a dictionary of sorts to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22219],"tags":[2051],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}