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Tara Milliken ✨
@taramilliken.bsky.social
A Buckeye in the Badger State.

Trying to make career services more just and equitable for students, while learning to de-center work in my own life.

Lover of coffee, podcasts, books, and Badger Volleyball. ☕️🎧📚🏐
Currently reviewing application materials as part of a search committee I’m on for a campus partner—there are 111 applicants.

If you are currently seeking new opportunities, I am *begging* you to tailor your cover letter and resume to the specific role/type of work you’re applying to.
January 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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This healthcare ceo is hard to talk about because how much death can you cause indirectly before you’re a murderer who got murdered? How do you convince yourself it doesn’t count if you kill people with policy instead of a gun? What do you have to believe about life and systems and human worthiness?
December 6, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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How do we better support faculty and staff navigating personal hardship, such as a chronic illness or caring for a aging parent? I explore that question in the new installment of Working Better, my column in @chronicle.com.
www.chronicle.com/article/sick...
Advice | Sick and Still on the Job
Employees dealing with life’s hardships find institutional support to be highly uneven. How to fix that.
www.chronicle.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:00 PM
This was a good day. I love these people and our association very much. 🩶
Leave it to Apple Featured Photos to remind me of this incredible professional community, @myacpa.bsky.social family.
November 23, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
November 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Finally finished reading The Serpent & The Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent—the last 10 chapters have me completely shook from all the plot twists.

*immediately downloads The Ashes & The Star-Cursed King* 📖
November 19, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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"The adult traits I acquired surviving dinosaurs will make me an enthusiastic and passionate member of a college community, whether I brave a Friday night dance or experiment in a new discipline, such as figure drawing."
The Boy from Jurassic Park’s College Application Essay
Claws scrabbled at the door, each scratch a shock of fear to my heart. Inside the kitchen, my sister and I hid behind a stainless steel table, slic...
buff.ly
November 18, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Support your local academic libraries, which are already being targeted for reduction or removal by campus administrators. truthout.org/articles/fac...
Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
truthout.org
November 17, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Looking for others in Higher Education & Student Affairs!
Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #HESA
go.bsky.app/7asixYJ
November 15, 2024 at 2:26 PM