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News & Advice by DateP&T Confidential How can you minimize the possibility that your blog or Facebook page might
hurt your career?
(7/3/2009)
On Course A professor looks for small changes he can make to move students toward
making smarter choices.
(7/2/2009)
Career News A scholar's study of her own students suggests that while a professor's
clothing might affect initial impressions, it doesn't make a difference in
the long run.
(7/2/2009)
The Two-Year Track We can all learn something from students' struggles with poetry, no matter
what we teach.
(6/30/2009)
Career News Poor writing persists because students don't try hard enough and aren't
pushed to try harder.
(6/30/2009)
Catalyst Why do doctoral students and their advisers have such different views about the graduate-research experience?
(6/29/2009)
An Academic in America Sooner or later, students confronted with unappealing work will appear in
their former professors' offices.
(6/26/2009)
On Message We word nerds can get pretty testy about the subject of language usage.
(6/25/2009)
Career News Academic fame is hard to attain, but harder to lose.
(6/25/2009)
Career News Some colleges try to limit the damage of financial cutbacks by spreading
them across the organization, but the method is not a clear success.
(6/24/2009)
First Person Two job candidates reflect on the mixed results of their first forays into
the academic job market.
(6/23/2009)
First Person Confronted by reporters, too many academics draw their heads and limbs
inside a protective shell, and won't come out.
(6/22/2009)
The Two-Year Track The war against tenure may begin at community colleges, but it's unlikely to
end there.
(6/19/2009)
First Person Many a tenured professor today is guilty of academic fraud committed in
graduate school.
(6/18/2009)
Heads Up When is secrecy acceptable in academic decision making?
(6/16/2009)
Career Talk What should you be doing now to prepare for your next job search?
(6/15/2009)
Academic Assets Should academics invest in socially responsible funds?
(6/12/2009)
Ms. Mentor How should an untenured faculty member deal with the questionable overtures
of her dean?
(6/11/2009)
Career News Adjuncts help colleges solve problems. Here's what colleges can do in
return.
(6/10/2009)
Page Proof If graduate students in the humanities are not being taught how to write,
how can we expect those in the sciences to do any better?
(6/9/2009)
The Fund Raiser Here are some cost-cutting and time-saving tips to make you a more efficient
traveler.
(6/8/2009)
Moving Up The time has come for colleges and universities to get serious about
succession planning.
(6/5/2009)
First Person A Ph.D. candidate in sociology would like to believe in tenure-track jobs
but she is just not sure they exist.
(6/4/2009)
Career News You know all that idealistic literature you poured into me during my
bachelor's and master's programs? Well, I actually enjoyed it, and was
inspired by it, and want to pass it along to the next generation of
dreamers.
(6/4/2009)
P&T Confidential For assistant professors, the most important thing to keep in mind is that
the tenure clock does not stop.
(6/2/2009)
Career News More scientists must let the public in on the implications of their work,
some advocates say. A new program trains researchers to talk effectively
with nonscientists.
(6/2/2009)
First Person With summer comes the time for an associate professor to organize her
office, and this time she really means it.
(6/1/2009)
The Two-Year Track Having a doctorate won't hurt you, as long as getting it didn't interfere
too much with your education.
(5/29/2009)
On Course Anxious students need confidence-building as much as they need an honest
appraisal of their work.
(5/28/2009)
First Person An assistant professor confronts the mix of emotions that comes with earning
promotion.
(5/27/2009)
On Message Promoting the work of faculty members can be a great way to raise your
college's profile — but not if they don't cooperate.
(5/26/2009)
An Academic in America Should professors put down roots or remain self-contained — like potted
plants — in anticipation of the next relocation?
(5/22/2009)
Catalyst A scientist at midcareer has learned to cope with the mismatches and
uncertainties of the grant process.
(5/21/2009)
Career News The bureaucracy inclines faculty members to mind our own business. But when
students need serious help, to hell with the bureaucracy.
(5/21/2009)
Balancing Act Dealing with the rigidities of the tenure system is a key reform facing
academe, if we want tenure to persist.
(5/20/2009)
Career Talk Four Ph.D.'s talk about turning away from faculty careers to work in
academic advising.
(5/19/2009)
First Person The most important result of applying for fellowships is the confidence that comes with success.
(5/18/2009)
First Person Too often, no one explains to graduate students what to expect of their
comprehensive exams.
(5/15/2009)
First Person Just because your students are computer-literate doesn't mean they are
research-literate.
(5/14/2009)
Heads Up A look at the steps faculty members can take to prepare for an
administrative appointment.
(5/13/2009)
Page Proof Why do graduate students tend to be so eager to dismiss, dislike, and
disrespect what they read?
(5/12/2009)
Career News Despite the faltering economy, St. John's University has turned a group of
writing instructors into tenure-track faculty.
(5/12/2009)
Academic Assets If you'd rather be reading Trollope, then put your retirement on autopilot.
(5/11/2009)
The Fund Raiser In an era of dwindling service, we can't afford to have donors feel like no one is paying attention to them.
(5/8/2009)
First Person The fourth in a series on what assistant professors want and need to be
successful in academe.
(5/7/2009)
The Two-Year Track If we assume that having a Ph.D. makes someone a better teacher, we can
overlook outstanding people with "just a master's."
(5/6/2009)
P&T Confidential Before you ride off to martyred glory, consider the good sense of living to
fight another day.
(5/5/2009)
Moving Up An associate dean takes an unexpected journey into leadership.
(5/4/2009)
First Person Singled out by state lawmakers as expendable, a sociologist defends her
research and teaching on sexuality.
(5/1/2009)
On Course Do the extra pedagogical features in textbooks have any value to our
students?
(4/30/2009)
Beyond the Ivory Tower How does a Ph.D. whose work focused on Norwegian killer whales wind up in
radio?
(4/29/2009)
Ms. Mentor Someone whined, someone was offended, then someone hit "send" when they
should have hit "delete."
(4/28/2009)
First Person What if my students are right? What if the readings are too long or too
boring or don't make sense?
(4/27/2009)
On Message A look at the ins and outs of crafting the most basic communication tool in
a public-relations office.
(4/24/2009)
First Person Forming an academic community beyond your field and institution brings more
benefits than merely to your writing.
(4/23/2009)
Career News We ill-serve students by having them study literature through the filter of
a school of criticism. Let outstanding writing, first and foremost,
represent itself, writes Mark Edmundson.
(4/23/2009)
Balancing Act Not if the tenure system is adapted to suit the modern realities of
professors' lives.
(4/22/2009)
Career News When the professor's kid decides not to go to college at all, a chill can
run through the family.
(4/22/2009)
Career Talk Four Ph.D.'s talk about turning away from faculty careers to work in
academic administration.
(4/21/2009)
Career News Colleges have added managers and support personnel at a steady, vigorous
clip over the past 20 years, new research shows, far outpacing the growth in
student enrollment and full-time instructors.
(4/21/2009)
Catalyst Given the magnitude and intensity of evaluation in an academic career, it's a wonder that anyone without a titanic ego survives the process -- but most
do.
(4/20/2009)
An Academic in America What faculty members can learn from Gordon Ramsay.
(4/17/2009)
A President's Fourth Year How the frigid economic climate is creating a certain human warmth on our
campuses.
(4/16/2009)
Career News Following several years of aggressive hiring, college fund-raising
operations are now cutting back.
(4/16/2009)
Moving Up To compete for the best talent, institutions must rethink how they recruit
executives externally and internally.
(4/15/2009)
First Person The job search ends happily for one of two friends who have been chronicling
their tenure-track quest.
(4/14/2009)
Career News Faculty pay raises beat inflation in 2008-9, an annual study has found. So
much for the good news.
(4/14/2009)
Academic Assets The company's financial health seems to be distinct from the recent declines
of your investments.
(4/13/2009)
First Person Or, How I spent my 12 days of university-ordered, unpaid leave.
(4/10/2009)
The Two-Year Track Do community colleges prefer, or resist, hiring their own part-time
instructors for full-time jobs?
(4/9/2009)
Career News In 2002, two professorships at Bentley University were endowed with the
stipulation that the chosen scholars become champions of good teaching. The
first holders of the chairs describe how they did just that.
(4/9/2009)
First Person A Ph.D. who relied on a close colleague for career advice learns that she
wasn't so adept at following it herself.
(4/8/2009)
Heads Up How do you fight professors and administrators who think rules and
regulations apply to everyone but them?
(4/7/2009)
Page Proof What are the odds that a book editor's polite expression of interest in your
manuscript will lead to a contract?
(4/6/2009)
Balancing Act Keeping your academic life separate from your family life at crucial times
can help you succeed in both realms.
(4/3/2009)
P&T Confidential A request from a campus tenure committee for more information on your case
is not necessarily a sign of trouble, but it is serious business.
(4/2/2009)
On Course When published research on teaching doesnt help you, why not use your own
classroom as a laboratory?
(3/31/2009)
Career News If the University of Connecticut men's basketball coach makes $1.6-million a
year, why shouldn't an education professor who influences five times as many
students?
(3/31/2009)
Ms. Mentor Fond as she is of outliers and revolutionaries, Ms. Mentor says it's
diplomacy that usually works best in academic quarrels.
(3/30/2009)
Moving Up Presidential-search committees increasingly want candidates with a robust
personal Rolodex.
(3/27/2009)
First Person For a mere $325, you, too, can be the proud recipient of a panel
presentation and a published article.
(3/26/2009)
Career News Two friends with different approaches to fund raising helped make the
Indiana University Foundation a success story.
(3/26/2009)
Balancing Act Don't underestimate the importance to female graduate students of seeing
successful female professors with children.
(3/25/2009)
Career Talk Talking to people about their careers, without an expectation of a job offer, is the best way to investigate your options.
(3/24/2009)
Career News When deadlines loom, procrastinating scholars sometimes resort to desperate measures to keep themselves on task.
(3/24/2009)
First Person
Two scientists reflect on post-tenure research productivity at a small undergraduate college.
(3/23/2009)
On Message
The last thing you want to do as a marketing professional is blunt people's
enthusiasm for their college or pride in their work.
(3/20/2009)
First Person
A professor recounts the last stops on his six-year quest for a comfortable
office.
(3/19/2009)
First Person
A Ph.D. discovers her own starring role in a gossipy tale that turns out to
be both common knowledge and entirely false.
(3/18/2009)
The Two-Year Track
An English Ph.D. who once hoped to spend her career at a research university
finds a pedagogical home at a community college.
(3/17/2009)
Career News
From a residence in a Virginia suburb to an office tower in Manila, The
Chronicle follows the trail of one international essay mill, from which
students can buy papers to order.
(3/17/2009)
Beyond the Ivory Tower
Few students understand that you can prepare for both the academic and
nonacademic job markets
in graduate school.
(3/16/2009)
An Academic in America
By turning students away from graduate school in the humanities, have I lost
my love for the scholarly life?
(3/13/2009)
Career News
Good teaching is better for a college's bottom line than good research.
Here's why.
(3/12/2009)
Beyond the Ivory Tower
An English Ph.D. turned entrepreneur offers writing workshops to companies
and nonprofit groups.
(3/11/2009)
The Adjunct Track
Don't let academe's apologists use the recession as an excuse for failing to
reform the faculty labor system.
(3/10/2009)
Career News
The salaries of college faculty members increased by a median average of 3.7
percent in 2008-9, down from 4 percent last year.
(3/10/2009)
Academic Assets
Should an academic couple focus on paying off their student loans or on
saving money for a house?
(3/9/2009)
Heads Up
How do you fight professors and administrators who use rules and regulations
to resist change?
(3/6/2009)
First Person
A history Ph.D. wonders if she's taken up her own proverbial boulder by
continuing to seek a tenure-track job.
(3/5/2009)
Career News
The 60-second lecture catches on, briefly, at a community college.
(3/5/2009)
On Course
At the bottom of a pool, struggling with his scuba gear, a professor learns
a lesson about teaching.
(3/4/2009)
First Person
A Ph.D. in English defies the odds in a dismal academic
market and finds a tenure-track job.
(3/3/2009)
Career News
To keep new faculty and staff hires, colleges learn they need to find jobs for spouses as well. But the recession is making that task more difficult than ever.
(3/3/2009)
First Person
Here's how a heavy teaching schedule affected one assistant professor's
desire to write a book.
(3/2/2009)
The Fund Raiser
A fund-raising director offers a few tips to consider as you recruit,
retain, or replace employees.
(2/27/2009)
The Two-Year Track
What you wear won't be as relevant as what you know, but it is an important
part of your overall presentation.
(2/26/2009)
Career News
On a scale of 1 to 4, how would you rate the nastiness of your student
evaluations? Please add your scathing comments below.
(2/26/2009)
First Person
What are the methods of that unusual class of professional blessed — or
cursed — with vast stores of unstructured time?
(2/25/2009)
Balancing Act
University policies and academic culture continue to discourage men from
being active parents.
(2/24/2009)
Career News
The best-paid employees on private-college campuses are not presidents, a
Chronicle analysis has found.
(2/24/2009)
The Adjunct Track
A tenured professor accepts a part-time teaching gig and becomes just
another hired hand.
(2/23/2009)
On Message
Campus PR officers have been slow to exploit the potential of the Internet.
(2/20/2009)
Career Talk
A dearth of faculty jobs in many fields means the basics of job hunting
matter more than ever.
(2/19/2009)
P&T Confidential
The best thing you can do for your tenure packet is make it as impressive in
design as in content.
(2/18/2009)
Career News
Colleagues of two professors at the University of Iowa who committed suicide
after being accused of sexual harassment question the university's handling
of the cases.
(2/18/2009)
The Adjunct Track
An adjunct faculty member who gave up a tenured job for family reasons comes
to grips with her new role.
(2/17/2009)
First Person
A newly tenured professor goes back on the market without much luck, but at
least his job is safe. Or is it?
(2/16/2009)
First Person
Why is it so difficult to determine whether a journal editor has accepted or
rejected your article?
(2/13/2009)
First Person
A senior professor finally runs out of places to hide and teaches a
first-year seminar.
(2/12/2009)
The Fund Raiser
People used to stumble into development careers, but new graduate programs
make the decision intentional.
(2/11/2009)
Ms. Mentor
No matter how good you are at your work, your colleagues won't keep you if
they don't like you.
(2/10/2009)
Academic Assets
Disciplined savings and asset diversification are the keys to sound
retirement planning.
(2/9/2009)
First Person
The most valuable kind of tenure transcends the narrow realm of any one
institution.
(2/6/2009)
The Party Line
Should a university cut back on travel costs to save money? And if so, who
should stay home?
(2/5/2009)
Career News
A quarter-century after entering grad school in English literature, Michael
Bérubé retakes the GRE.
(2/5/2009)
First Person
The third in a series on what assistant professors want and need to be
successful in academe.
(2/4/2009)
Career News
A lesson for professors on how not to lose face on Facebook.
(2/4/2009)
On Course
A senior professor writes a new primer for graduate students on academic
work and life.
(2/3/2009)
Career News
Faculty governance, professors say, is being assaulted by administrators
using economic pressure as an excuse.
(2/3/2009)
Page Proof
If you must be negative, have the nerve to stand by what you think and sign
your name to it.
(2/2/2009)
An Academic in America
It's hard to tell young people that universities view their idealism and
energy as an exploitable resource.
(1/30/2009)
First Person
An administrator in student services who was seeking to move up the ranks
now finds herself in a two-body search.
(1/29/2009)
Career News
Texas A&M University has riled faculty members with a plan to let them
compete for bonuses based on good evaluations from students.
(1/29/2009)
First Person
A Ph.D. candidate vows to stop resembling a stained flannel couch cover and
start resembling a successful job candidate.
(1/28/2009)
Balancing Act
Why are more and more graduate students turning away from careers at
research universities?
(1/27/2009)
Career News
One signature at a time, national research agencies and university libraries
have pledged to support a new system of publishing in high-energy physics.
(1/27/2009)
The Two-Year Track
The teaching demo is arguably the most important part of the
community-college interview -- and the most terrifying.
(1/26/2009)
First Person
A professor on the last lap of his career recalls 40 years of cubicles.
(1/23/2009)
Heads Up
Search committees need to understand that the campus visit is a two-way
vetting process.
(1/22/2009)
Career News
Roving professors could provide interdisciplinary perspectives on small
campuses.
(1/22/2009)
First Person
It's so easy to judge students as close-minded, racist, or just plain lazy;
it's just as easy to be wrong.
(1/21/2009)
Career Talk
How do I explain missing my own conference presentation? Our Career Talk
columnists answer that question and others from readers.
(1/20/2009)
Career News
Graduate students are turning away from careers at research universities
because they are not family friendly, a new survey shows.
(1/20/2009)
On Message
If you are doing your job in PR, you should be out meeting with as many
people on your own campus as possible.
(1/19/2009)
P&T Confidential
What steps can tenure candidates take to increase the odds of a fair
external review?
(1/16/2009)
First Person
Two Ph.D. candidates experience a brief and unexpected respite from the
usual coldness and bad manners of the hiring process.
(1/15/2009)
The Adjunct Track
When will we realize it's time to take advantage of the economic turmoil and
restructure the faculty labor system?
(1/14/2009)
Ms. Mentor
She thought her tormenters were gone forever, but now they may be coming
back to town.
(1/13/2009)
Career News
Academic expertise is no ticket to a federal job in Washington. But in an
Obama administration, it can't hurt.
(1/13/2009)
Academic Assets
Financial intelligence starts with taking advantage of your university's
retirement match.
(1/12/2009)
The Fund Raiser
It may sound counterintuitive, but now is the time to travel to your best
donors and talk about their philanthropic goals.
(1/9/2009)
First Person
For a new Ph.D. searching for her first job in her field, the line between
the two can be blurry.
(1/8/2009)
On Course
In a new book, an assistant professor of English finds radical new sources
of inspiration for his discipline in K-12 classrooms.
(1/7/2009)
Career News
So you don't have the perfect tenure-track position at the perfect college
in the perfect town? Welcome to Earth.
(1/7/2009)
Page Proof
How to avoid hurt feelings and battered relationships when friends turn to
you for a close read.
(1/6/2009)
Career News
Most colleges are enduring the recession without layoffs or across-the-board
hiring freezes. But the pain is being felt on campuses in other ways, a new
survey shows.
(1/6/2009)
First Person
An Illinois liberal-arts college bucks the trend and goes on a hiring binge.
(1/5/2009)
Academic Assets
It is particularly urgent now for academics to attend to their savings and spending.
(12/19/2008)
First Person
A veteran academic offers advice on what to expect at conference interviews
and how to conduct yourself.
(12/18/2008)
Balancing Act
Female undergraduates and graduates students voted for Obama in great
numbers. So what do they want from him now?
(12/17/2008)
The Two-Year Track
Sometimes our own actions and attitudes unwittingly reinforce the negative
stereotypes about community colleges.
(12/16/2008)
Heads Up
E-mail has been around long enough that you'd think we would have learned
how to handle it by now.
(12/15/2008)
An Academic in America
The business culture that dominates today's museums has no room for the eccentricities of introverted curators.
(12/12/2008)
The Adjunct Track
The predictable reaction to recent studies about part-time instructors is as
insightful as the data.
(12/11/2008)
First Person
A case of sexual harassment and mistaken identity in the digital age.
(12/10/2008)
Moving Up
How the science of economics is instrumental in helping a president run his
university.
(12/9/2008)
Career Talk
Preparing to attend your first big academic convention? Here's what you need
to consider.
(12/8/2008)
First Person
The process of revising a grant proposal can help you turn piecemeal work
into a coherent whole.
(12/5/2008)
First Person
The choice between a job in industry or academic science would be easy if it
really were a binary decision.
(12/4/2008)
P&T Confidential
Praise in a letter of recommendation has more impact when it is honest,
detailed, balanced, and on point.
(12/3/2008)
On Message
No two controversies are the same, but some basic public-relations
principles can help you handle the fallout.
(12/2/2008)
Career News
The compensation-and-benefits packages paid to teaching and research
assistants vary widely, according to a Chronicle survey.
(12/2/2008)
Ms. Mentor
Should you wail to your colleagues, wait your turn, or find your own little
piece of turf?
(12/1/2008)
Moving Up
Five rules to help you as a midlevel administrator lead people over whom you
have no real authority.
(11/26/2008)
Career News
Most institutions, both private and public, seem to be faring relatively
well, even as they and the students they serve are tightening their belts.
(11/26/2008)
On Course
Do Web sites that format citations for students negate the need to teach
them how to create a proper source list?
(11/25/2008)
Career News
Computers may soon outsmart scholars. If they will out-teach them, too, what
does that mean for colleges?
(11/25/2008)
The Fund Raiser
After 18 years in campus development, a fund raiser tries out the consulting
world.
(11/24/2008)
Balancing Act
Oocyte cryopreservation is not the secret to professional success in
academe.
(11/21/2008)
First Person
An administrator in student services, and a new mother, seeks to move up the
ranks.
(11/20/2008)
First Person
The rigors of the professoriate begin to weigh heavily on three assistant
professors who are no longer rookies.
(11/19/2008)
Page Proof
What are the odds that you can pull together your previously published work
into a collection?
(11/18/2008)
Career News
The price of leadership continues to rise in higher education, particularly
in terms of presidential pay at public universities.
(11/18/2008)
The Two-Year Track
More advice for candidates on what hiring committees are searching for in a
faculty member.
(11/17/2008)
First Person
When you become a dean of students, be prepared for students and parents to
view you as the problem and the solution.
(11/14/2008)
First Person
The perfect job for a Ph.D. in earth sciences turns out to be not in higher
education.
(11/13/2008)
Career News<
Rarely do graduate students resort to violence on the campus. But colleges
can act to minimize even that slight risk.
(11/13/2008)
Heads Up
Treating staff members as fellow professionals means making sure they are
full participants in department life.
(11/12/2008)
Balancing Act
Every university has its own culture, and part of the tenure-track
experience is figuring out what that culture values.
(11/11/2008)
First Person
Fall means almost nonstop travel for people in admissions. In the face of
exhaustion, it's easy to forget why the work matters.
(11/10/2008)
An Academic in America
A look at whether student evaluations of teaching can be administered
effectively via the Internet.
(11/7/2008)
First Person
His tenure-track job is in the middle of nowhere, but he loves it anyway. So
why is he going back on the market?
(11/6/2008)
First Person
A political scientist shares the changes and continuities he found 20 years
after his first teaching stint there.
(11/5/2008)
First Person
The second in a series on what assistant professors want and need to be
successful in academe.
(11/4/2008)
First Person
A job candidate in English plans for jubilant success but prepares for
complete and total rejection.
(11/3/2008)
On Message
Many campus leaders consider themselves media-ready but those of us in PR
know better.
(10/31/2008)
P&T Confidential
In every job search, you run the risk that your candidacy could be derailed
by a reference call.
(10/30/2008)
Career News
At Rollins College, among other campuses, professors are paid to get away
for overseas travel to enhance their teaching.
(10/30/2008)
First Person
A job candidate tests her interview skills at her field's annual convention,
and finds they're a little rusty.
(10/29/2008)
Career News
A former community-college president talks about how to get the top job and
succeed.
(10/29/2008)
Ms. Mentor
Every department has its malcontents. Must you enlist?
(10/28/2008)
Career News
Switching from a university to a community college helps a faculty member
discover the purpose of postsecondary life.
(10/28/2008)
First Person
An associate professor would be happy to have the federal government ease
her financial crisis.
(10/27/2008)
Catalyst
Two earth scientists share the lessons they learned doing fieldwork with
their babies in tow.
(10/24/2008)
First Person
An administrator who considered giving up his job finds the decision made
for him.
(10/23/2008)
Career News
Something is wrong with tenure, and we need to make it right. Abolishing it
is not feasible, but there is another way to deal with the problem.
(10/23/2008)
The Party Line
It's in that period just before the other shoe drops that a
government-relations officer can be most effective.
(10/22/2008)
Career News
A look at the academic job market for Ph.D.'s in selected disciplines
reveals a lot of worries, but some pockets of hope.
(10/22/2008)
Page Proof
What do you do when you're jilted by the person who best appreciated your
work? For starters, don't take it personally.
(10/21/2008)
Career News
Unless you can also put equity front and center in department meetings,
faculty senates, budget allocations, and even mission statements.
(10/21/2008)
Balancing Act
A true measure of gender equity in academe would look at both the career and
family outcomes of female Ph.D.'s.
(10/17/2008)
First Person
Two Ph.D. candidates in the humanities chronicle their search for their
first tenure-track jobs.
(10/16/2008)
Careers News
Joseph Hayse's legal quest has lasted longer than most people's careers in
academe.
(10/16/2008)
Heads Up
Too many academics have perfected the art of pouncing ruthlessly on a
politically wounded colleague.
(10/15/2008)
The Two-Year Track
Advice for candidates on what hiring committees are searching for in a faculty member.
(10/14/2008)
Career News
Colleges have been building smart classrooms for years. Now some of those
once-high-tech rooms are starting to show their age.
(10/14/2008)
First Person
After a four-year hiatus from the classroom, a professor finds it both
familiar and new again.
(10/13/2008)
An Academic in America
Why are so many artists and writers preoccupied by the so-called demise of
bookish culture?
(10/10/2008)
First Person
Shouldn't seven years of graduate school have helped me avoid taking a job
just to have a job?
(10/9/2008)
First Person
Why would a newly tenured associate professor in the sciences decide to go
on the job market?
(10/8/2008)
Heads Up
No matter how reluctantly you took the job, no one forced you to accept it.
(10/7/2008)
A President's Fourth Year
After three years on the job, a president offers his top-10 list of dos and
don'ts.
(10/6/2008)
Moving Up
Too much transparency in the administrative search process leads to bad
outcomes.
(10/3/2008)
First Person
A job candidate in sociology whose research focuses on race finds that he's
not what search committees were expecting.
(10/2/2008)
Career Talk
Courts are tending to side with faculty members who seek unemployment
payments when their contracts are terminated through no fault of their own.
(10/2/2008)
First Person
An associate provost who resisted administrative jobs for years now seeks to
move up the ranks.
(10/1/2008)
Ms. Mentor
Something more may be at issue with a Ph.D. whose husband controls her
career moves.
(9/30/2008)
First Person
An assistant professor at a liberal-arts college prepares for a yearlong
research leave.
(9/29/2008)
Catalyst
It may pay off for you to explore a new means of securing money from the
same federal agencies that are tightening grant budgets.
(9/26/2008)
Career Talk
Our experts evaluate the CV's of three faculty-job candidates and an
administrator seeking to move up.
(9/25/2008)
Career News
The last thing an author wants to hear is the sound of another scholar
closing in on the same topic.
(9/25/2008)
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