How to Write Rejection Letters, and Other Reading

According to an item on The Chronicle’s News Blog, members of the American Association of University Professors have elected Cary Nelson, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to another term as president.
Tenured Radical offers some advice to search-committee members on how to write rejection letters.
Elsewhere on the News Blog, Robin Wilson reports on a new academic study that shows that professors are less likely than doctors and lawyers to have children.
Meanwhile, over at Leiter Reports: a Philosophy Blog, search-committee members are sharing suggestions about how to better prepare graduate students for job interviews at schools that place a premium on teaching.