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News & Advice by DateFirst 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)
Beyond the Ivory Tower
It's easier for engineering Ph.D.'s to land that first nonacademic job than
for humanists but they face the same challenges in the workplace.
(9/24/2008)
On Course
A new Web site offers one of the most comprehensive classroom guides
available online.
(9/23/2008)
Career News
What ever happened to all those plans to hire more minority professors?
(9/23/2008)
P&T Confidential
Here are some strategies to lessen the odds that your refusal will be taken
as a personal affront.
(9/22/2008)
First Person
The first in a series on what assistant professors want and need to be
successful in academe.
(9/19/2008)
First Person
How can a midcareer faculty member whose days are filled with administrative
and service work find time for research?
(9/18/2008)
Careers News
A new survey shows that women and members of minority groups take longer to
earn their doctorates.
(9/18/2008)
Heads Up
Here are ways to make "the toughest job in the university" a little easier.
(9/17/2008)
Page Proof
The fearlessness and linguistic facility of a trio of provocative writers
should serve as a role model for academics.
(9/16/2008)
Career News
Pundits and professors wring their hands over the inadequacies of the
so-called digital generation but not all young people are tech savvy.
(9/16/2008)
First Person
Taking on extra jobs to make ends meet becomes something of an obsession for
one doctoral candidate.
(9/15/2008)
First Person
Too many campus administrators and professors fail to hold technology to
academic standards of cost analysis and assessment.
(9/12/2008)
The Two-Year Track
At many two-year colleges, moonlighting is a common practice, if not always
an accepted one.
(9/11/2008)
Careers News
Mentor programs in which experienced professors advise junior colleagues are
on the rise.
(9/11/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. spends five days and a lot of money learning the rules of academic
conferences.
(9/10/2008)
Career News
The problem is receiving increasing attention on the Web, and top
administrators are taking notice.
(9/10/2008)
The Two-Year Track
A social scientist is reincarnated at a community college as the professor
he always hoped to be.
(9/9/2008)
First Person
A journal editor outlines the most common mistakes academics make in
submitting their manuscripts.
(9/8/2008)
An Academic in America
Exactly how should we teach the 'digital natives'?
(9/5/2008)
First Person
Nothing stunts civility like graduate-student insecurities and competition.
(9/4/2008)
Career News
Stanley Fish would like professors to impart knowledge without viewpoint.
Even if that were possible, it would be undesirable.
(9/4/2008)
First Person
On his first day on the job, an assistant professor is handed an unusual
gift.
(9/3/2008)
Career News
Academic freedom is a professional requirement, not a divine right. It
should be advanced, and limited, accordingly, writes Stanley Fish.
(9/3/2008)
Ms. Mentor
Should the departmental Dish Avenger keep tossing out communal mugs that
faculty members refuse to clean?
(9/2/2008)
On Course
Think about teaching as a set of strategies or techniques that we inherit
and pass on to the next generation.
(8/27/2008)
The Fund Raiser
At what point does a résumé become a tornado siren heralding
the arrival of an ill wind?
(8/26/2008)
First Person
Given a chance to explore an old passion, an assistant professor learns the
rules and realities of a conference romance.
(8/25/2008)
P&T Confidential
Our students aren't the only ones who could benefit from some
time-management skills.
(8/22/2008)
First 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)
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