LCL Faculty: RESOURCES FOR FACULTY - LCL at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

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The video introduces a comprehensive set of resources designed to assist linguistics faculty in guiding their students toward alternative academic careers, moving beyond the traditional focus on university positions. The primary recommendation is a panel discussion from the Linguistics for Launch 2024 event, which offers an overview of how educators and administrators can better support student career exploration. Additionally, a free educational video featuring Nancy Fober and Anne Kroo provides practical steps for departments to become more open to non-academic roles. To facilitate these conversations, the presenters have created two accessible posters filled with easy tips on discussing academic versus non-academic job prospects with graduate students and postdocs, encouraging faculty to display them in their offices and departments to demonstrate institutional support. Beyond direct departmental tools, the presentation highlights valuable external resources that linguistics professors can adapt for their own classrooms. Two podcast episodes feature linguistics professors sharing specific strategies for integrating career education into teaching, accompanied by a handy guide summarizing key ideas from one of the episodes. The speakers also strongly recommend leveraging the Anthropology Career Readiness Network (ACRN), noting significant overlaps in job skills between anthropologists and linguists. For those interested in the origins of such networks, an interview with Elizabeth Bry, a founder of ACRN, is available on the Linguistics Career Cast podcast, offering insights into how these interdisciplinary resources can be utilized to enhance student readiness for diverse career paths. The document further encourages faculty to familiarize themselves with various industry and business sectors, even if they do not intend to work in them directly. This awareness helps educators point students toward relevant opportunities and assist them in building professional networks within fields of interest. To stay updated on new content and ongoing projects, the video directs viewers to follow the Linguistics Career Launch initiative on LinkedIn, which serves as a hub for the latest information. Finally, the speakers advise faculty members to share these resources with their institution's careers office, suggesting that linguistics often faces marketing challenges where the unique skills of its graduates may be misunderstood. By engaging diplomatically with career counselors and educating them about the discipline, faculty can ensure that students receive accurate guidance and robust support throughout their career development.

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All [Music] right. So, let's talk about linguistics career launch resources for faculty. So we actually have a whole faculty section that uh is designed to help faculty get started with their exploration of altac careers. Um what we recommend starting with is this panel from linguistics for launch 2024 last July on the new role of faculty uh advising linguistic students with Alex Johnston and Susan Steele, two of LCL's co-organizers. This is just a really good overview starting point um that will uh hopefully you know give you some ideas of of what you can do as a uh as an educator or an administrator to help guide your students in their career exploration. The next thing that we recommend is this faculty um faculty education video that's free and easy steps to make your department open to non-act careers. This is from our 2021 one program features our co-organizer Nancy Fber speaking with Anne Kroo. Um and we actually from the work that that Anne has done and and that she had posted on what was then Twitter um and other talks that she's given we actually created these two posters which I will just show you very briefly. Um so these posters which are accessible in our resources document um are on how to talk to grad students and postocs about academic jobs about jobs found in academia and how faculty can improve the job search process. Uh we recommend for faculty you know print these posters out put them in your office put them in their department. um they are really full of free and free and easy tips because we know that for a lot of faculty the problem isn't you know wanting to help it's it's maybe not having the departmental resources to help. So these are just ways to get started to show your support um for for your students in in their over the course of their career exploration. Um, we have two podcast episodes down here that uh each feature um two linguistics professors talking about how they do uh career education in the classroom. Um, and for one of them, we actually have put together uh this additional very handy guide um that summarizes some of the ideas from the episode. So, these are things that faculty can implement on their side too. Um, and then pivoting a little bit to borrow from one of our sister fields, um, we really, really love the anthropology career readiness network, ACRN. They have, uh, resources specifically for instructors. They have resources for students as well. Um, things that that you can borrow even as a professor in linguistics. We find a lot of overlap between the job skills that anthropologists have and that linguists have. And if you want to hear more about how ACRN got started, um, you can listen to our linguistics career cast interview with Elizabeth Bry, who's a longtime business anthropologist and one of the the founders of ACRN. We also have, of course, as you can see, other uh resources in the section of the document for faculty that you can check out. The ones that I just highlighted are, you know, a few to help you get started. Um, and then of course we would recommend checking out the other sections as well. Um, if you continue to scroll down, you can see that we start to get into different industry sectors or business sectors. And having some awareness of these, even if you're not super deep in in what exactly they are, can just be really helpful towards pointing your students in a a good direction for them, helping them build out their networks by finding people who do things that they may want to do in the future. Um, you can follow Linguistics Career Launch on LinkedIn. Um, that is all the way at the bottom of the document here. Uh, that is where we post the most uh up-to-date information about what we're working on um, and new content that we've been putting out. And then the the last way to make use of this document if you're faculty um, could actually be to share this document with uh, your careers office in your department. not in your institution. Um, so we know that linguistics has a bit of a marketing problem and sometimes the careers office may or may not have a good idea of the skills that linguists actually bring to the table. Um, so you can engage in some, you know, diplomacy on behalf of the discipline. Go make friends with the people in the careers office. Uh, educate them about what linguistics is and then share these resources with them so that they can better help your students as well. [Music]