Note from the Editor | Living Fully in the Present While Looking to the Future As the academic year winds down in many parts of the world, our work lives become (hopefully) a bit less frantic and this creates space for reflection. This month’s Catalyst provides food for thought on living...
View from the Top | WOW, I Thought 2023 Was Going to be Calmer – Silly Me! "One day, for no particular reason, nothing was going right. Absolutely positively, nothing was going right. So, I decided to go left..." These are the words in Marc Colagiovanni's book When Things Aren't Going...
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SRAI Off the Clock | Debra Sokalczuk Short work changes that lead to more work/life balance . Two years ago, my husband and I decided to purchase our retirement home, about two hours away from where we were living at the time. This meant a two-hour train ride each day back and forth to...
Maximize Your SRAI Experience | How to Post on Connect Welcome to the SRAI website , where you will find everything you need to Maximize Your SRAI Experience . This month we continue to share some tips about how to get the most out of this tool. Check out last month’s tips on Logging in and...
View from the Top | DEI: “Strength Lies in Differences, Not in Similarities.” DEI: “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” – Stephen Covey. The concept of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) started to help us learn how to appreciate our differences and work better together....
SRAI Off the Clock We would like to reframe The Secret Life of a Research Administrator column into SRAI Off the Clock . When we started the Secret Life column, we wanted to hear more about the hobbies and interests of our members. We still want to hear about those things but realize that...
Note from the Editor | Changeable Weather for Research Administrators In North America, the month of March is noted for its changeable weather, with the well-known phrase, “in like a lion; out like a lamb.” (As I pen this in early March, it looks like we are in for a wild month, with tornadoes...
View from the Top | The Power of a Thank You! One of my favorite books to re-read is The Last Lecture by Dr. Randy Pausch. Pausch's book, inspired by his final Carnegie Mellon University lecture (and co-written by Jeffrey Zaslow), was his final message to the world before his impending death...
More Than Our Rank: A New Initiative from the INORMS Research Evaluation Working Group The More Than Our Rank initiative has been developed in response to some of the problematic features and effects of the global university rankings. It provides an opportunity for academic institutions to...
Note from the Editor | Colorful Winter Ah, February – the month in which I am (mostly) typing the correct year on the first try, my New Year’s resolutions are a little less shiny but still in action, the weather (where I live anyway) is rainy and cold, and Valentine’s Day feels like an attempt...
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