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Journalist | S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Alumni | Specializing in Broadcasting and Journalism
Take a look at my new article discussing the topic of change within the transition straight from my undergraduate to graduate school. We can't become what we want to be by remaining what we are. Growth requires a new level from you; you have to embrace change and discomfort to get to the other side.
Broadcast and digital journalism student Jalyss Agosto explains how graduate school demands a higher level of commitment, critical thinking and self-directed learning compared to the more structured nature of undergraduate education in the latest Newhouse Insider Blog. Read more below: https://lnkd.in/ez_6j7PF
Graduate experience from undergraduate experience
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As I leave the College Board, I want to spend a minute on what I'm really proud of: The Elective. I've worked on the editorial of a lot of websites in the last 15 years. In a few cases, I rebuilt/relaunched languishing digital publications. But The Elective was the first one I conceptualized, synthesized, named, and architected and built (editorially) from the ground up. When it launched in March 2020, it was with the mission to be "a space for open, lively, and honest discussion about the issues, opportunities, challenges, quirks, and cultural footprint of education." That shifted and evolved over the next few years as a pandemic and internal changes necessitated pivots. But even as it leaned into a broader program of brand journalism or embraced the tenets of solutions journalism, that core mission was the north star. I published a lot of great stuff from March 2020-December 2023: interviews with students, teachers, leaders, authors, and filmmakers; practical career advice from computer scientists and marine biologists to video game designers and — it's true! — New Yorker cartoonists; conversations resurrected from the archives of a top-notch-but-forgotten company magazine. In a couple cases, I got a couple things to the top of Google search. The one I'm most proud of is a collection of 10 mini-profiles of Black computer scientists everyone should know. The Elective never received the support it should have, and I wish more people had encountered and read it in the moment. I don't regret much in my career, but what will sting for a while is the lost opportunity. I had big, innovative plans for 2023 that were, alas, caught in the gears of organizational change. I hope to draw on what I learned for future projects The publication would never have succeeded without a handful of dedicated true-believers. (Looking at you especially Christian Niedan and Eric Johnson. And thanks Stefanie Sanford and Michele McNeil for the support and confidence.) But I held all the roles (not by choice). I was executive/managing/line/photo/SEO editor, producer, project manager, designer, hype man... So if at anytime over the last four-ish years we interacted and I was less than gracious, first, I'm so sorry (I haven't been at my best), and, second, it was a lot. What happens to The Elective now isn't up to me. This post is my way of pushing my chest out a bit about this publication I'm endlessly proud of — but also my stab at accepting that it's maybe not long for this world. My pride is shadowed a bit by sadness... Still, this is the work that’s proof I did something worthwhile. And it's work that shows, despite whatever doubts I had and have, I have something to contribute: to media, the editorial space, maybe even to improving our information ecosystem. Thanks for reading. Thanks for reading The Elective. And thanks, Elective. https://lnkd.in/dw235G6k
The Elective: The New Digital Education Magazine from College Board
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The editor-in-chief and majority of editors of a key international-education journal have resigned amid an abrupt transfer in management of the publication to an unknown third party and questions about its commitment to open-access academic publishing. The mass resignation of the editorial team for the Journal of International Students has led to confusion about the future of a publication credited with advancing international-ed research and spotlighting the work of a diverse collection of scholars. In this week's Latitudes, I dig into how the incident highlights issues around both scholarly equity and financial sustainability as open-access academic publishing has expanded. Plus, a new effort to get more Black male students to study abroad; plans for a new special Homeland Security subcommittee to examine foreign malign influence on American higher education, including the development of guidelines and best practices for colleges; and throwing cold water on global mobility data. https://lnkd.in/gc3MNeXp #internationaleducation #intled #research #openaccess #academicpublishing #studyabroad #educationabroad #internationalstudents #em #iem #highereducation #highered
Top Editors of a Key International-Ed Journal Resign in a Dispute Over Management
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Academic publishing is evolving in 2024, embracing open access, DEI, and digital transformation. These changes are enhancing accessibility, fostering diversity, and encouraging the ethical use of technology. It's an inspiring time for everyone in the academic community! https://ow.ly/8PQ050SkxWE
Transforming Academic Publishing: Key Trends to Watch in 2024
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Assistant Dean of Faculty Affairs, Associate Professor at California Northstate University College of Medicine
I have always wondered why?? Along the same lines, why PhDs peer review papers for free? If you call a lawyer for a consultation, they charge you per hour of their valuable time. Why? Because you pay for their professional opinion. Similarly, Peer reviewing is nothing short of exercising your own expertise as a highly trained PhD consultant!!
It's time for PhDs to be paid royalties on the papers they publish. Period. If NCAA athletes can now get paid, why can't PhDs who are innovating life saving and life improving discoveries every day? With profit margins greater than Google, Amazon or Apple, where's all the money going instead? Perhaps to the editor-in-chiefs at these academic journals, some of whom are getting paid $500,000 or more per year? Where else? Until PhDs can free themselves from the academic-publishing complex and it's "publish or perish" deterrence strategy, nothing will change. Here's a snippet from this article- "In order to make money, a traditional publisher – say, a magazine – first has to cover a multitude of costs: it pays writers for the articles; it employs editors to commission, shape and check the articles; and it pays to distribute the finished product to subscribers and retailers. All of this is expensive, and successful magazines typically make profits of around 12-15%. The way to make money from a scientific article looks very similar, except that scientific publishers manage to duck most of the actual costs. Scientists create work under their own direction – funded largely by governments – and give it to publishers for free; the publisher pays scientific editors who judge whether the work is worth publishing and check its grammar, but the bulk of the editorial burden – checking the scientific validity and evaluating the experiments, a process known as peer review – is done by working scientists on a volunteer basis. The publishers then sell the product back to government-funded institutional and university libraries, to be read by scientists – who, in a collective sense, created the product in the first place...[resulting in] 36% margin – higher than Apple, Google, or Amazon." #jobsearch #careerdevelopment #careers #resumes #negotiating #gethired #jobtips #phd #phds #postdoc #postdocs #phdlife #phdchat #phdjobs #phdcareers #phdstudents #phdstudent #science #cheekyscientist
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Is it time for PhDs to be paid royalties on the papers they publish? #researchers #sciencecommunication #researchpaper #research #clinicalresearch #chemistry #lifesciences #science #molecularbiology #biochemistry #microbiology #researcher #recherche #biologia #pharmaceutique #medicina #PubMed #biology #medicine #cancerresearch #pesquisacientifica #biomedicina #immunology #biology #medicina #universities #scientistlife #scientists #scientificpublication #peerreview #laboratory #laboratorio #clinicalresearch #clinicaltrials #sciencecommunity #scienceandtechnology #sciencedirect #scientist #medicalresearch #pharmaresearch #dissertationwriting #dissertation #pósgraduação #postdoc #phdstudent #universidades
It's time for PhDs to be paid royalties on the papers they publish. Period. If NCAA athletes can now get paid, why can't PhDs who are innovating life saving and life improving discoveries every day? With profit margins greater than Google, Amazon or Apple, where's all the money going instead? Perhaps to the editor-in-chiefs at these academic journals, some of whom are getting paid $500,000 or more per year? Where else? Until PhDs can free themselves from the academic-publishing complex and it's "publish or perish" deterrence strategy, nothing will change. Here's a snippet from this article- "In order to make money, a traditional publisher – say, a magazine – first has to cover a multitude of costs: it pays writers for the articles; it employs editors to commission, shape and check the articles; and it pays to distribute the finished product to subscribers and retailers. All of this is expensive, and successful magazines typically make profits of around 12-15%. The way to make money from a scientific article looks very similar, except that scientific publishers manage to duck most of the actual costs. Scientists create work under their own direction – funded largely by governments – and give it to publishers for free; the publisher pays scientific editors who judge whether the work is worth publishing and check its grammar, but the bulk of the editorial burden – checking the scientific validity and evaluating the experiments, a process known as peer review – is done by working scientists on a volunteer basis. The publishers then sell the product back to government-funded institutional and university libraries, to be read by scientists – who, in a collective sense, created the product in the first place...[resulting in] 36% margin – higher than Apple, Google, or Amazon." #jobsearch #careerdevelopment #careers #resumes #negotiating #gethired #jobtips #phd #phds #postdoc #postdocs #phdlife #phdchat #phdjobs #phdcareers #phdstudents #phdstudent #science #cheekyscientist
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PhD, FAPS, FInstP, CPhys, FHEA; Reader in Quantum Physics, Physics Dept., Loughborough University
The mainstay of scientific publishing is the peer review process. Of course, it saves a lot of money which otherwise would have to be paid to qualified full time editorial staff. But more importantly, it supports the status of scientific journals as the repositories of reliable, high quality scientific information - compared to, e.g., arXiv. In the age of internet this status is the main thing these journals have to sell. Unfortunately, and contrary to the public perception, peer reviewing does not and cannot ensure either the validity or the quality of a research paper (beyond the more or less obvious flaws, or the reviewer's perception of whether the claimed result is interesting enough). These are established after, and not prior to, its publication. Recognition of peer reviewing as the vital part of scientific publishing business, and not of the scientific method, would be a welcome initial step towards the improvement of the current state of dissemination and evaluation of scientific information. Concerning the payments to the authors, now in many cases the authors or their institutions are supposed to pay for the privilege of publishing.
It's time for PhDs to be paid royalties on the papers they publish. Period. If NCAA athletes can now get paid, why can't PhDs who are innovating life saving and life improving discoveries every day? With profit margins greater than Google, Amazon or Apple, where's all the money going instead? Perhaps to the editor-in-chiefs at these academic journals, some of whom are getting paid $500,000 or more per year? Where else? Until PhDs can free themselves from the academic-publishing complex and it's "publish or perish" deterrence strategy, nothing will change. Here's a snippet from this article- "In order to make money, a traditional publisher – say, a magazine – first has to cover a multitude of costs: it pays writers for the articles; it employs editors to commission, shape and check the articles; and it pays to distribute the finished product to subscribers and retailers. All of this is expensive, and successful magazines typically make profits of around 12-15%. The way to make money from a scientific article looks very similar, except that scientific publishers manage to duck most of the actual costs. Scientists create work under their own direction – funded largely by governments – and give it to publishers for free; the publisher pays scientific editors who judge whether the work is worth publishing and check its grammar, but the bulk of the editorial burden – checking the scientific validity and evaluating the experiments, a process known as peer review – is done by working scientists on a volunteer basis. The publishers then sell the product back to government-funded institutional and university libraries, to be read by scientists – who, in a collective sense, created the product in the first place...[resulting in] 36% margin – higher than Apple, Google, or Amazon." #jobsearch #careerdevelopment #careers #resumes #negotiating #gethired #jobtips #phd #phds #postdoc #postdocs #phdlife #phdchat #phdjobs #phdcareers #phdstudents #phdstudent #science #cheekyscientist
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Preparing students to find a job straight out of college is not always easy in #Indiana. However, barriers graduates must jump to successfully transition to a career are far from unique to the Midwest. WGU Labs is an affiliate of Western Governors University, and earlier this year it brought together a diverse group to tackle the disconnect between college courses and meeting the needs of workplaces. WGU Indiana Chancellor and Regional Vice President Alison Barber Bell said there needs to be more universality among employers, educators, students, and job candidates. "To start to uncover the barriers because, obviously, this is something that is talked about a lot," said Bell. "I've heard about it for years, 'the skills gap,' so I think the goal is to dig down and identify from all perspectives what are the barriers so that then, obviously, the next step would be how do we address them finally?" Bell said fostering a stronger local approach creates more opportunities to intern or interview and ultimately builds stronger connections. Another glaring takeaway from the study is a need for a universal skills language for everyone involved. "What does an employer mean when they say 'people skills' or 'problem-solving,' and how does a student or a graduate self-identify that they have the skills that the employers are talking about?" asked Bell. "If we don't have a universal language with definitions that make sense to all of us, we're going to move past each other." Bell said participants in the study hope to create a learning cycle that can become continuous so the pathway from college to career isn't just a one-time journey, but one in which employers, universities and students work together to clear the logjam in the talent pipeline and reduce the skills gap.
New urgency to close skills gap between college and employment
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2024 Article Call Schedule SNC Newsletter and White Paper Series The group of article calls for the coming year are now posted on our website. Our calls for articles cover a spectrum of topics birthed by science and technology. Check in regularly at our website and become a Premium Subscriber so you won’t miss a beat. Publishing establishes you as a knowledgeable resource in your field and can open new professional opportunities. Some reasons to have your article published with STEM News Chronicle are: § Allows you to share your expertise. § Adds your work to the body of knowledge and increases the frequency of citations to your topic. § This leads to recognition as a resource related to inclusion in STEM education and careers. § Informs wider audiences to new concepts and advances in your field. Link: https://lnkd.in/gzhgWVZz
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