Academic Culture
Miguel Mantero: Were the road signs wrong? (2/8/2006)
James M. Lang: What next? (1/30/2006)
Frank Midler: Service masochists (1/27/2006)
Jonathan Malesic: Yielding to convention (1/23/2006)
Ms. Mentor: What if I don't know the ropes? (1/17/2006)
Michael Beardsley: The chairman's dog (1/13/2006)
Ms. Mentor: Why Won't He Erase the Blackboard? (12/13/2005)
A. Papatya Bucak: With a little help from my enemies (12/1/2005)
Harvey Blum: The invasion of the office snatchers (11/23/2005)
James M. Lang: On guard (11/21/2005)
Ms. Mentor: Bulldozed by a moderator (11/15/2005)
Rebecca Anne Goetz: Do not fear the blog (11/14/2005)
An Academic in America: Principled mediocrity (11/7/2005)
Frank Midler: Entering the fog (11/4/2005)
Heads Up: We want change; no we don't (10/25/2005)
Moving Up: The divide (10/21/2005)
Ms. Mentor: Mispronunciation or manipulation? (10/18/2005)
Lee Tobin McClain: A sabbatical year (10/14/2005)
An Academic in America: Productive procrastination (10/10/2005)
James M. Lang: By the numbers, please (10/5/2005)
Barbara Katz Rothman: Pushing them through (9/13/2005)
An Academic in American: Saving secondhand bookstores (9/12/2005)
Eric Strand: The Hollywood Mouse and the Ivory Tower Mouse (9/7/2005)
Jack Thomas: Talking about it (8/19/2005)
Pamela Johnston: Dressing the part (8/10/2005)
John B. Zibluk: Tenure Epiphanies (8/9/2005)
Susie J. Lee: Frodo Baggins, A.B.D. (7/28/2005)
Jill Morstad: Arrested Development? (7/26/2005)
Thomas H. Benton: Stacks' appeal (7/18/2005)
Donald E. Hall: The grass isn't greener (7/5/2005)
Alan Mendelsohn: Academic flame wars (6/6/2005)
Mary Werner: Scholarly debts (5/6/2005)
Thomas H. Benton: Life after the death of theory (4/29/2005)
Nicholas Hengen: M.A. students as pledges (4/11/2005)
All in the Game: On balance (4/1/2005)
Ted Falter: Humbert Humbert, the TA (3/28/2005)
Thomas H. Benton: The worst building on the campus (3/28/2005)
Frank Midler: Part gatekeeper, part huckster (3/25/2005)
Heads Up: The limits of tenure (3/9/2005)
Thomas H. Benton: A God in Colchester (2/28/2005)
Douglas L. Howard: In search of a room with a view (2/22/2005)
Catalyst: The buck starts here (2/21/2005)
Stanley Fish: Who's in charge here? (2/4/2005)
Thomas H. Benton: Conference man returns to the MLA (1/31/2005)
Frank Midler: Should a mentor be a friend? (1/7/2005)
All in the Game: One university under God? (1/7/2005)
William Pilger: In but not of academe (12/15/2004)
Elizabeth Tatem: A career in academe: Priceless (12/6/2004)
Ms. Mentor: They're just not that into you (11/30/2004)
James M. Lang: Failing to motivate (11/29/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: Tireless research assistants (11/22/2004)
David D. Perlmutter: Doctoral student, scholar, baby sitter? (11/8/2004)
Ms. Mentor: Where are the bodies buries? (11/2/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: My own private library (10/25/2004)
Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister: Game for anything (10/6/2004)
Elizabeth Fleer: Ditch the boyfriend (9/28/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: Missing summer already (9/27/2004)
Vera Taz: The trailing spouse track (9/22/2004)
Gail Jacobson: The case of the missing adviser (9/10/2004)
David D. Perlmutter: Teaching the 101 (9/8/2004)
Maria Annunziata: Dead professor walking (8/31/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: On being a fat professor (8/30/2004)
Jack Thomas: Searching for sinister motives (8/27/2004)
Frank Midler: Speak only twice (8/24/2004)
Sarah Ben-Al: Don't be that guy (8/10/2004)
Pat Phelps: Collegiality lessons (7/27/2004)
All in the Game: The case for academic autonomy (7/23/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: An adviser without advice (7/19/2004)
Ana Forbes: Sent to the chopping block (7/12/2004)
David D. Perlmutter: When the honeymoon is over (7/6/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: Is graduate school a cult? (6/28/2004)
All in the Game: Minimalism (6/25/2004)
Gene C. Fant, Jr.: It's OK to say no (6/22/2004)
Jon T. Coleman: Life lessons from football (6/16/2004)
James M. Lang: Office doors of the North American professor (6/5/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: Shyness and academe (5/24/2004)
David D. Perlmutter: Please don't keep me informed (5/19/2004)
Emily Wardle: Death of the reader (5/4/2004)
All in the Game: Promises, promises (4/30/2004)
Sophie Ruscello: In search of curious students (4/28/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: Real estate and your academic career (4/26/2004)
Darin Hayton: The rhetoric of rejection (4/21/2004)
Jon T. Coleman: Haunted by penguins (4/16/2004)
All in the Game: Plus ça change (4/2/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: Remembering the old lions (3/29/2004)
David Lester: Complain, complain (3/9/2004)
Ms. Mentor: Are you the retiring sort? (3/8/2004)
All in the Game: Make 'em cry (3/5/2004)
Charles Naccarato: Becoming visible (3/4/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: In praise of eccentric professors (3/1/2004)
James Waite: Hung over again (2/23/2004)
All in the Game: Intellectual diversity (2/13/2004)
Kelly McMichael: Two friends, one opening (2/10/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: Ignoring my inner lawyer (2/2/2004)
John S. Brady: Talking jobs (1/21/2004)
All in the Game: Real meetings (1/9/2004)
James E. McWilliams: Just another leftist loon (1/8/2004)
Balancing Act: Racial identity in balance (1/7/2004)
Alice Knox Eaton: Faith, Persistence, and Luck (12/19/2003)
Steve Pink: Making lists (12/18/2003)
Peter S. Cahn: Number crunching (12/8/2003)
Jane Bast: Ignoring good advice (12/4/2003)
Jon T. Coleman: The trouble with misfits (12/3/2003)
James M. Lang: RateMyBuns.com (12/1/2003)
All in the Game: The war on higher education (11/26/2003)
Max Clio: Grading on my nerves (11/18/2003)
John S. Brady: Waiting for the 'Big One' (11/4/2003)
All in the Game: Give us liberty or give us revenue (10/31/2003)
Balancing Act: When tenure isn't enough (10/28/2003)
Thomas H. Benton: College and the fall (10/27/2003)
Do good looks equal good evaluations? (10/15/2003)
All in the Game: Grading Congress (10/3/2003)
James M. Lang: Shameless self-promotion (9/9/2003)
All in the Game: Let them teach at Stanford (9/5/2003)
Thomas H. Benton: The 5 'virtues' of successful graduate students (9/2/2003)
Chris Cumo: Blue collar Ph.D. (8/13/2003)
All in the Game: Hard choices (8/8/2003)
Batting the stigma of nontraditional credentials (8/6/2003)
Keonya C. Booker: The disadvantages of youth (8/5/2003)
All in the Game: The same old song (7/11/2003)
Will Stallings: The faculty spouse: Finding friends and a job (7/10/2003)
Career Talk: Learning the lingo, part II (7/3/2003)
Sean Chapman: We just do (7/1/2003)
All in the Game: Free-speech follies (6/13/2003)
April Gregory: Black and female in the academy (6/4/2003)
Thomas H. Benton: So you want to go to grad school? (6/3/2003)
Max Clio: Learning from a teaching contest (5/29/2003)
All in the Game: Aim low (5/16/2003)
Anna DeVoll: Addicted to Realtor.com (5/15/2003)
James M. Lang: Office-hour habits of the North American professor (5/13/2003)
Catherine Evans: So why are you really leaving? (5/6/2003)
Jim Harris: Another year in limbo (4/30/2003)
Erika Favor: When your peers vote against you (4/29/2003)
Michael Bugeja: The seven digital sins (4/8/2003)
All in the Game: First, kill all the administrators (3/21/2003)
James M. Lang: Settling in, or just settling? (3/13/2003)
Joseph Livingston: Interview season in computer science (2/27/2003)
Ms. Mentor: My success, their failure (2/24/2003)
Peter S. Cahn: Life under the knife (2/19/2003)
Dennis Baron: The tenure files: getting through the college (2/14/2003)
Lewis Harper: Making too much money and too little (2/12/2003)
Lena Rosen: Taking a year off the market (2/6/2003)
Balancing Act: Which half is yours? The art of collaboration (1/20/2003)
Jim Harris: How I learned to stop worrying and enjoy the MLA (1/16/2003)
Thomas H. Benton: A superhero's perspective on the MLA convention (12/20/2002)
Ms. Mentor: You only think you're unique (12/16/2002)
Jennifer A. Fremlin: "You're not white, you're Canadian" (12/11/2002)
Chet Meeks: Graduate school neuroses (12/3/2002)
Michele Singer: Collegiality and the weasel clause (11/20/2002)
All in the Game: Discipline and punish (11/15/2002)
Thomas H. Benton: Should we stop fooling ourselves about money? (11/14/2002)
Ms. Mentor: No one wants to promote a viper (10/21/2002)
Turning down a promotion (10/9/2002)
Jonathan David: Once a slacker (10/8/2002)
Lewis Harper: Wanted: decent raises and smaller classes (10/2/2002)
Jim Harris: The family business (9/25/2002)
All in the Game: Somebody back there didn't like me (9/13/2002)
Joel B. Peckham Jr.: An academic transient's tale (8/28/2002)
All in the Game: The golden rule, part 2 (8/16/2002)
Balancing Act: Don't go it alone (8/12/2002)
Miguel Mantero: Academic hiring 101: intro to budget constraints (8/8/2002)
Michael J. Bugeja: Is congeniality overrated? (7/30/2002)
Shabana Mir: Foreign and female on the job market (7/17/2002)
Mike Land: Confessions of a lone extrovert (7/9/2002)
All in the Game: Say it ain't so (6/21/2002)
Julie Crosby: A license to clean (5/29/2002)
Peter S. Cahn: A job applicant's manifesto (5/21/2002)
Thomas H. Benton: Reunion blues (5/6/2002)
Harry Lancaster: Striking out (5/2/2002)
Ms. Mentor: The new faculty wife (4/26/2002)
Career Talk: Learning the lingo (4/22/2002)
Humanities at Work: An academic life in the public sphere (4/8/2002)
Michael Bugeja: When a former colleague dies (4/4/2002)
Ms. Mentor: Why are hiring committees so mean? (3/29/2002)
All in the Game: Is everything political? (3/29/2002)
Is a job at a religious college right for you? (3/27/2002)
James M. Jasper: Why so many academics are lousy writers (3/26/2002)
Balancing Act: Following your scholarly passions (3/25/2002)
Daniel Kowalsky: The question no one asks (3/18/2002)
Moving Up: An administrator's guide to how faculty members think (3/8/2002)
Peter S. Cahn: Teaching versus research (3/4/2002)
All in the Game: You probably think this song is about you (3/1/2002)
Robert A. Gross: From 'old boys' to mentors and The adviser-advisee relationship (2/28/2002)
Sarah Alexander: Lost: one adviser and mentor (2/20/2002)
Can a dean really go back to being a professor? (2/14/2002)
James M. Jasper: How the research-university model has killed the creativity of humanists and social scientists (2/7/2002)
Thomas Hart Benton: From literary theory to grace before meals (2/5/2002)
All in the Game: Keep your eye on the small picture (2/1/2002)
Ms. Mentor: What should you wear? (2/1/2002)
Gale Walden: Hiding the baby (1/31/2002)
Lucy Young: Losing status: a former faculty member takes a staff job (1/29/2002)
Julie Crosby: 'Sorry, you are not a winner' (1/28/2002)
Douglas L. Howard: American psychos: insanity, academe, and other special topics (1/25/2002)
Emily Peters: The cost of applying for academic jobs (1/23/2002)
James M. Lang: How I got my job (1/21/2002)
Mark J. Drozdowski: Relationship counseling for fund raisers and faculty (1/15/2002)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: Are you coming back? (1/14/2002)
Mike Land: The great compression: crushing a decade's work into two minutes or less (12/19/2001)
Barbara Wendell: Can untenured faculty members stop grade inflation? (12/13/2001)
When a colleague dies (12/12/2001)
Robert Haro: The dearth of Latinos in campus administration (12/11/2001)
Clay Richards: Getting an inside view of a search (12/4/2001)
Thomas H. Benton: Leaving the big city for small-town college life (12/3/2001)
Alexander M. Bruce: The balancing act of the professor/administrator (11/30/2001)
Grant Greene: On good advice and lowered expectations (11/28/2001)
Pamela Johnston: Being Dr. Mommy (11/27/2001)
Peter S. Cahn: Coming home to find work (11/26/2001)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: The importance of compromise (11/21/2001)
Travis J. Ryan: Take my advice -- or not (11/21/2001)
All in the Game: Don't do it (11/16/2001)
Ms. Mentor: Fear of committee-ment (11/16/2001)
Michael Branley: How academe looks post-tenure (11/15/2001)
Inaugural hoopla: price, precendent, and personality (11/14/2001)
Steven Michels: Finding a friend in a competitor (10/26/2001)
Emily Peters: The secret to a successful academic job search: luck and timing (10/23/2001)
James M. Lang: The art of meetings (10/22/2001)
All in the Game: Time to pay (10/19/2001)
Julie Crosby: Leading a double life (10/16/2001)
When is it ok to invite a student to dinner? (10/8/2001)
Grant Greene: On the market in religious studies (9/28/2001)
Ms. Mentor: Answering your own question (9/21/2001)
Douglas L. Howard: Teaching through tragedy (9/20/2001)
Clark Baker: The wrath of the retiree (9/18/2001)
Travis J. Ryan: A tale of two Augusts (9/17/2001)
Thom D. Chesney: The ways we say 'no' (9/12/2001)
Douglas L. Howard: The replacement (9/10/2001)
Gene C. Fant Jr.: Replacing the transcience of graduate school with the permanence of a career (9/5/2001)
James M. Jasper: Institutions are not your friends (8/31/2001)
Ms. Mentor: Am I a cliché? (8/17/2001)
Balancing Act: Creating possibility out of failure (8/17/2001)
Daniel Kowalsky: Taking the Ph.D. back home (8/17/2001)
Carrie Hollingsdale: It's not like they say it will be (8/10/2001)
Paul Martin Lester: Don't bother me, I'm just visiting (8/3/2001)
Ann Marie Shackelford: From professor to administrator, and back again (8/3/2001)
Jack Zibluck: Was I moving up in the world -- or just moving? (7/27/2001)
Doug Risner: Why buy the cow? (7/27/2001)
Moving Up: Telling people that you're a candidate (7/27/2001)
Sara Davis: Women and the tenure track (7/13/2001)
Cathy Trower: Negotiating the non-tenure track (7/6/2001)
James M. Lang: Closing year one on the tenure track (6/29/2001)
Michael Bugeja: Dubious behavior on the job (6/29/2001)
Ms. Mentor: Do I squelch an upstart? (6/22/2001)
David Hacker: The right way to welcome new faculty members (6/22/2001)
Daniel Kowalsky: My narrow escape from a life without letterhead (6/15/2001)
Mary A. Burgan: Reading the fine print (6/8/2001)
Ms. Mentor: And the award for biggest boor goes to ... (5/25/2001)
Elizabeth Martin: The end of the academic affair (5/11/2001)
Paul Martin Lester: Learning to live with public-speaking anxiety (5/4/2001)
James Lang: On the tenure track at a religious institution (4/27/2001)
David Galef: The information you provide is anonymous, but what was your name again? (4/20/2001)
Daniel Kowalsky: My job search as box-office flop (4/13/2001)
Doug Risner: A word from the 'longlisted' (3/30/2001)
Alexander M. Bruce: Shortlisted with no real shot (3/23/2001)
Travis J. Ryan: Too close for comfort to the search (3/9/2001)
Ms. Mentor: A hole in your dossier (3/2/2001)
Ryan Moore: Just call me Dr. Temp Slave (2/23/2001)
James Lang: How I spent my first break on the tenure track (2/16/2001)
Travis J. Ryan: Are you sure? (1/26/2001)
Paul Martin Lester: The hazing of academic job applicants (1/19/2001)
Moving Up: Impostors and enemy camps (1/12/2001)
Ms. Mentor: A hint is just a hint (1/5/2001)
Daniel Kowalsky: The socially alienated A.B.D. couple (12/15/2000)
James Lang (Diary #7): The tenure-track diaries: college math (12/8/2000)
W.T. Pfefferle: The "easeful" life of the professor and a resource list on academic stress (12/1/2000)
Ms. Mentor: Is this all there is? (11/24/2000)
Elizabeth Martin (Diary #1): Wasting time learning to teach (11/24/2000)
Happily programmed by the Ph.D. cult (11/10/2000)
Aaron Leonard (Diary #1): On the market: the perils and pleasures of autumn (11/3/2000)
Arthur Athelstand (Diary #1): On the market: an H.I.V. researcher contemplates jumping from the ivory tower (10/27/2000)
Balancing Act: How the tenure track discriminates against women (10/27/2000)
Daniel Kowalsky (Diary #1): On the market: diary of a would-be history professor (10/20/2000)
Vic Tully: Finding beauty in "The List" (10/13/2000)
Moving Up: Coupling and college administrators (10/6/2000)
Travis J. Ryan: Thinking smaller (9/29/2000)
Doug Risner: The ins and outs of academic searches (9/15/2000)
Carl Isaacson: Why can't administrators be candid? (8/18/2000)
Ms. Mentor: When to tattle (8/18/2000)
Career Talk: Should I tell them? (8/11/2000)
Barney Rogers: The hidden costs of academic life (8/4/2000)
Sara Davis (Diary #5): Up and down the academic roller coaster (7/21/2000)
Ms. Mentor: Can just anyone teach? (7/21/2000)
Paige Gordon (Diary #5): Finding my academic community (7/14/2000)
Mark Sincell: Former astrophysicist comes clean: research is boring! (6/23/2000)
Bill Pannapacker (Diary #10): Hope, or a new life on the tenure track (6/16/2000)
Career Talk: Used up and burned out (6/16/2000)
Catalyst: Keeping your research alive (5/26/2000)
Sara Davis (Diary #4): Phone interviews: like phone sex, only less invigorating (5/26/2000)
Paige Gordon (Diary #4): Making sense of rejection (5/12/2000)
Joel Singer (Diary #4): Is there life after graduate school? (5/5/2000)
Ms. Mentor: Poking around in other people's psyches (4/28/2000)
Leslie A. Pray: The unsettled sidelines of the tenure track (4/28/2000)
Michael Loyd Gray: How I won the war (4/14/2000)
Ms. Mentor: Naughty Mr. Nice (2/04/2000)
Pablo Mitchell (Diary #2): Hey, I can do this! (1/28/2000)
Ms. Mentor: Are academics real people? (1/7/2000)
Joe Mungioli: My year on the academic roulette wheel (11/26/1999)
Sara Davis (Diary #1): A return to culture shock (11/19/1999)
Ms. Mentor: Being artsy in academe (11/19/1999)
Pablo Mitchell (Diary #1): A 'coyote' on the job market (11/12/1999)
Chet H. Chapin (Diary #1): My secret life as a rock star (10/9/1999)
Michael Loyd Gray: The case against academic tribalism (10/1/1999)
Roy Hill: Why are graduate students unwilling to uproot? (9/10/1999)
Mary Ellen Collins: How a writer captures the faculty gestalt (7/30/1999)
Bill Pannapacker (Diary #9): Beyond Anger: Revitalizing the culture of higher education (6/11/1999)
Bill Pannapacker (Diary #8): Academe's angry generation (5/14/1999)
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Deprogramming from the academic cult (4/9/1999)
Robin Warner (Diary #7): The mad dash to graduate this millenium (4/9/1999)
Annalee Newitz (Diary #8): My life as strip poker, or how I lost my pseudo-ironic naiveté (3/26/1999)
Annalee Newitz (Diary #7): Flying into the irony zone (2/26/1999)
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Some common career questions (2/12/1999)
Bill Pannapacker (Diary #4): The speech that ended my academic career (1/22/1999)
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Telling your adviser the truth (1/15/1999)
Moving Up: Thinking about difference in administrative searches (1/8/1999)
Robin Warner (Diary #4): Waiting for signs of life (1/8/1999)
Bill Pannapacker (Diary #3): Gatekeepers to "the life" (12/11/1998)
Ms. Mentor: Working with incompetents (11/20/1998)
Bill Pannapacker (Diary #1): A graduate student's life: "a permanent sense of inadequacy and dread" (10/16/1998)
Annalee Newitz (Diary #1): Back into the job market: a Ph.D. in English takes what she hopes will be her final shot at landing a job (9/4/1998)
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