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News & Advice by DateFirst Person
When his tenure-track search fell short, a Ph.D. faced a fundamental choice
about dealing with the disappointment.
(8/21/2008)
The Adjunct Track
Teaching part time sometimes makes a Ph.D. feel like a failure, but it also
allows her life as a parent to work.
(8/20/2008)
Heads Up
How can deans and chairs find appropriate ways to involve retired professors
in the life of the college?
(8/19/2008)
First Person
Accepting the possibility of tenure denial and dealing with the reality of
it are two different things.
(8/18/2008)
Moving Up
Following the 5 principles of external hiring can keep your search for a
dean from getting derailed.
(8/15/2008)
First Person
It's time to dispel the graduate-school myth that family time is wasted
time.
(8/14/2008)
Career Talk
A new edition of a popular handbook on the academic job search underscores
how the hiring process has changed.
(8/13/2008)
First Person
Going on the job market this fall? Tell us all about it.
(8/13/2008)
Beyond the Ivory Tower
With her first novel out in September, a former academic answers questions
about leaving academe to write fiction.
(8/12/2008)
Career News
Administrators at public universities are devising new strategies to keep
key faculty members in an era of increased poaching.
(8/12/2008)
Page Proof
Don't know your French flaps from your headbands? Here's a guide to the arcane terminology of the book world.
(8/11/2008)
First Person
Is it plagiarism when a colleague borrows your syllabus and then uses it in
its entirety for his own course?
(8/8/2008)
The Two-Year Track
Some regional accrediting agencies have relaxed their standards for faculty
credentials at two-year colleges — or have they?
(8/7/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. in the sciences loses his complacency and rediscovers his confidence
in his search for a tenure-track position.
(8/6/2008)
Career News
The cultural bias against serious study of science and technology is rarely
recognized as a reason for American students' poor performance.
(8/6/2008)
The Fund Raiser
Why it's important for all fund-raising campaigns to follow the lead of the
big ones and stress results, not need.
(8/5/2008)
Career News
A report from the Mellon Foundation cites rough patches in scholarly
presses' transition to online access.
(8/5/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. tries to reconcile the profession he glamorized as a child with the
one he is living on the tenure track.
(8/4/2008)
An Academic in America
A cartload of recent books suggests that it's time to reverse the
customer-service mentality plaguing academe.
(8/1/2008)
First Person
The economy can be a cruel mistress, particularly, it seems, to a performing
artist.
(7/31/2008)
Peer Review
An astronaut lands at Boise State University ... and other appointment news.
(7/31/2008)
First Person
After 35 years of meetings and memos, an administrator mulls leaving the
management track.
(7/30/2008)
First Person
A moment of minor irritation at a student's dumb question can make for major
aggravation.
(7/29/2008)
Career News
Is a Darwinian approach the adaptation that will allow literary studies to
survive?
(7/29/2008)
First Person
A tenured professor accustomed to going about her own business finds herself
suddenly responsible for others in a summer institute.
(7/28/2008)
First Person
Sick of mediocre students and feeling stuck on the job, a professor turns to
music to self-medicate.
(7/25/2008)
First Person
If we had to make up a story for why you might be interested in our
position, then interviewing you was too risky.
(7/24/2008)
Peer Review
The new law school at the University of California at Irvine gets some
high-profile hires ... and other appointment news.
(7/24/2008)
Ms. Mentor
Advice on how best to dress, and act, when you look as young as your
students.
(7/23/2008)
Career News
Why are some of the greatest thinkers being expelled from their disciplines?
(7/23/2008)
On Course
The season of panic approaches for those faculty members entering the
college classroom for the first time.
(7/22/2008)
Career News
Will the retirement of aging baby boomers usher in an era of moderate
politics on campus?
(7/22/2008)
The Adjunct Track
Why adjunct faculty members don't feel like part of the academic division.
(7/21/2008)
Heads Up
Go ahead, submit a long, gossipy rant against your chairman, but prepare to
be ignored.
(7/18/2008)
First Person
Three assistant professors find the going tough in their first year on the
tenure track.
(7/17/2008)
The Party Line
If you understand why political leaders visit campuses, it changes how you
manage their visits.
(7/16/2008)
Career News
What red flags should you watch for as you navigate the job-market fun
house?
(7/16/2008)
Page Proof
Is it better to revise your first draft, or junk it and start over?
(7/15/2008)
Career News
College workers in midcareer are most likely to express negative feelings
about their jobs, The Chronicle's first extensive survey of college
workplaces has found.
(7/15/2008)
P&T Confidential
No better preparation for the tenure track exists than a graduate
assistantship; here's how to make the most of it.
(7/14/2008)
First Person
The true story of what it's like to spend a week grading Advanced Placement
exams.
(7/11/2008)
Beyond the Ivory Tower
Will not finishing your dissertation harm your career prospects in the
nonacademic world?
(7/10/2008)
First Person
Giving up a full year's leave to take only a semester off was a mistake but
even a limited break has its benefits.
(7/9/2008)
The Fund Raiser
Who, exactly, is the audience for a capital campaign once it goes public?
(7/8/2008)
Career Talk
A primer for new professors on what to expect in the first year on the job.
(7/7/2008)
Catalyst
Are a moderately heavy teaching load and an active research program mutually
exclusive?
(7/3/2008)
First Person
Recent job postings and hires suggest that many academic libraries are
losing interest in hiring humanities Ph.D.'s.
(7/1/2008)
Career News
Stolen computers containing sensitive data are a growing and costly problem
for colleges.
(7/1/2008)
First Person
An associate professor ponders the cause and effect of academic infighting.
(6/30/2008)
An Academic in America
An English professor immerses himself in an emerging field that has already
begun to redefine academic work.
(6/27/2008)
Balancing Act
With four courses to teach, two conference panels to run, and a visiting poet to entertain, something had to give.
(6/26/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. in economics makes the transition from graduate student to potential
colleague.
(6/25/2008)
First Person
Graduate students often have no idea how to communicate with their advisers.
(6/24/2008)
Ms. Mentor
Without routine friendly interaction, many an academic turns to brooding, fuming, and toting up injustices.
(6/23/2008)
The Two-Year Track
Are you qualified to teach at a community college? Time to check your
graduate-school transcript.
(6/20/2008)
P&T Confidential
Whether you are comfortable with the label or not, you are the 'boss,' and you must act like one.
(6/19/2008)
Beyond the Ivory Tower
Working for a law firm, an English Ph.D. spends his days teaching writing
but actually getting paid well for it.
(6/18/2008)
Page Proof
To those of you with other people's manuscripts sitting on your desk, get to
them soon or give them back.
(6/17/2008)
First Person
Among other things, a Facebook profile means you get to see how your students react when you hand out their grades.
(6/16/2008)
First Person
Despite ceaseless murmurings about a 'global' age, most scholars remain narrowly bound to nation and discipline.
(6/13/2008)
Balancing Act
Why should admitting in a job interview that you have small children be so consequential?
(6/12/2008)
Career Talk
If you plan to apply for teaching jobs at two-year colleges, here's what you need to consider.
(6/11/2008)
The Fund Raiser
Isn't fund raising a job you could do just as easily from home as from a campus office?
(6/10/2008)
On Course
A new book tells the story of an excellent teacher but sometimes offers strangely specific advice as gospel truth.
(6/9/2008)
Heads Up
Disciplinary societies should devise a rigorous peer-review process for evaluating scholarly Web sites.
(6/6/2008)
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