Academic Assets
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Value, Price, and Fees
Distinguishing between price and value can boost your retirement returns.
- Get Flexible
- Defining Benefits
- Extra Credit
- Cents and Conscience
An Academic in America
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Preserving the Future of the Natural-History Museum
Do not sacrifice the history of your museum for the sake of being up-to-date everywhere you look.
- Online Learning: Reaching Out to the Skeptics
- A Laboratory of Collaborative Learning
- What to Advise Unemployed Graduates
- Growing Where You Are
The Adjunct Track
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Sticks and Stones, or Titles and Truth?
Contingent faculty members live in the gap between what they are called and what they do.
- The Silence of the Grads
- Help Is on the Way
Balancing Act
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Title IX Includes Maternal Discrimination
It's family-unfriendly policies — not lack of interest or commitment — that turn many women away from academic science.
- Why So Few Doctoral-Student Parents?
- Superprofessor Meets Supermom
- How the 'Snow-Woman Effect' Slows Women's Progress
- Is Tenure a Trap for Women?
Beyond the Ivory Tower
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From Biologist to Life Coach
How did a Ph.D. in synthetic biology end up advising people on life and career choices?
- Quasi-Academic Careers
- From Academic to Radio Producer
- Every Ph.D. Needs a Plan B
- The Writing Business
Career Talk
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The CV Doctor Returns
Submit your CV to our Career Talk columnists, and it may be selected for an online critique.
- Should I Get Another Degree?
- Using the Summer to Explore Career Options
- Switching Sides, Part 4
- Switching Sides, Part 3
Catalyst
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A Scientist's Guide to Academic Etiquette
Whether you're an interviewer, an author, or an adviser, there are things you shouldn't do in the name of scholarship. Here are 30 tips for navigating the academic world.
- Speaking of Speaking
- Summers Off … From My Paycheck
- Changing the Trajectory of Your Academic Career
- Planet of the Professors
First Person
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Sorry I'm Late
We tend toward lateness because each of us hates waiting more than we feel bad about making others wait.
- Old Books, Old Stories
- Reduce the Technology, Rescue Your Job
- The Rules of Faculty Club
- Confessions of a 3-Year-Degree Student
From the Archives
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Welcoming Remarks
Delivering the opening comments at a meeting joins death and taxes on the list of things no administrator can avoid.
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The Community-College Interview
The odds are against candidates who are unfamiliar with our values and don't speak our lingo.
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Don't Just Search, Recruit
Taking an aggressive approach in hiring is the only way to avoid a mediocre pool of candidates.
The Fund Raiser
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Considering a Job in Fund Raising?
Now is a good time to look for that new or first position in the field.
- The Professor as Fund Raiser
- Why Stewardship Is Critical Now, and Always
- The Three R's
- Advancing Knowledge
Heads Up
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Fight Your Own Battles
Deploying students as surrogate warriors violates everything we stand for as a professoriate.
- The Unkindest Cut of All
- Growing Pains
- Exactly What Is 'Shared Governance'?
- The Burden of Confidentiality
Moving Up
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The Candidate and His Earring
In 20 years, will we see college presidential candidates with piercings and tattoos?
- The Burden of Too Much Information
- Reflections of a Failed Dean
- Mind the Gap
- Your Next Few Leaders
Ms. Mentor
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I Hate Myself When I'm Teaching
How can I learn to stop worrying and love my work?
- What's Yours and What's Mine?
- A Novel Form of Revenge
- Do I Have to Praise Him?
- I'm OK, He's Sleazy
On Course
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Speaking Truth to Papers
Can voice-recognition software make grading student essays a less time-consuming task?
- Teaching Resolutions for the New Year
- Lessons From a Freshman Year
- Nudging Higher Education
- How Do We Inspire Them?
On Message
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Understanding the 'Public' in Public Relations
Ignored or underappreciated, a college's neighbors can create needless headaches for PR officers.
- Who Is on the Other End of Facebook?
- Getting Professors to Meet Their Deadlines
- Navigating New (Media) Frontiers
- One Voice, Many Audiences
P&T Confidential
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Job-Searching on the Job
Whom should you tell if you decide to go back on the academic job market?
- Should You Switch Tenure Tracks?
- Facebooking for the Tenure Track
Page Proof
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'Your Review Was Brutal'
Should you confront the academic who criticized your book? Rachel Toor's advice is to take the useful criticism and get over it.
- Fashion Lessons for Graduate Students
- Kindling Changes for the Reader and the Writer
- 'I Just Wrote This Last Night'
- Writing Like a Doctor
A President's Fourth Year
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We're All in This Together
How the frigid economic climate is creating a certain human warmth on our campuses.
- How to Avoid Becoming a One-Hit Wonder
The Two-Year Track
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What New Department Chairs Should Know
Imagine students, professors, and administrators as the sides of a triangular-shaped basin; you are the drain.
- The 5 Characteristics of Successful New Faculty Members
- Feeling Fake in the Classroom
- Tips for New Teachers at Community Colleges
- 'A Great Man, Dumbledore'
