Academic Assets
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TIAA-CREF and You
Making the most of your options with higher education's major retirement-plan provider need not be bewildering.
- Of Human Bondage, Part 2
- Of Human Bondage
- Choosing Investments for Balance
- Diversification Still Works
- Tax Planning and Sabbatical Leaves
- Saving, Speculation, Investment
- Tolerance, Risk, and Reward
- How Much Should I Save?
- Investing for Retirement
An Academic in America
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Invisible Gorillas Are Everywhere
Humanities, sciences, technology, and the next revolution in higher education.
- We're Still in Love With Books
- 'Getting to Clear'
- Big-Tent Digital Humanities: a View From the Edge, Part 2
- 'Big Tent Digital Humanities,' a View From the Edge, Part 1
- 100 Columns Later
- On Deadlines and Dead Grandmothers
- A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2
- A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education
- Getting Medieval on Higher Education
- On Gratitude in Academe
- Why Do They Hate Us? Part 2
- Why Do They Hate Us?
- Getting Real at the Natural-History Museum, Part 2
- Getting Real at the Natural-History Museum
- Marian the Cybrarian
- Making a Reasonable Choice
- 'A Very Special Marketplace'
- The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind'
- Dodging the Anvil
The Academic Expat
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For Academic Expatriates, Families Can Be a Big Risk Factor
What about the spouse? What about the children? Academics considering the expat life should think about these questions carefully.
- For Expat Professors in South Korea, Students Can Be the Biggest Cultural Surprise
- Cross-Cultural Skills: Essential for Expatriate Success
The Adjunct Track
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Dodgy Definitions of Merit
For part-time faculty members, a merit-raise system doesn't necessarily seem to reward merit in the classroom.
- An Adjunct's View
- Why Don't We Insist on Equity?
- Academe's House Rules
- Sticks and Stones, or Titles and Truth?
- The Silence of the Grads
- Help Is on the Way
- My Foray Into Adjunct Life
- The New Faculty Wife
- Let's Talk Equity — Later
Balancing Act
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The Pyramid Problem
Why is faculty gender equality still not within striking distance?
- Answering the Illegal Question
- How to Change Workplace Culture on Parenting
- Have No Illusions: Dual Academic Careers
- The Three-Body Problem
- E-Mail: the Third Shift
- Women, Tenure, and the Law
- The Academic-Motherhood Handicap
- Still Earning Less
- Title IX Includes Maternal Discrimination
- Why So Few Doctoral-Student Parents?
- Superprofessor Meets Supermom
- How the 'Snow-Woman Effect' Slows Women's Progress
- Is Tenure a Trap for Women?
- The Family Track
Beyond the Ivory Tower
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The Sweet Spot of a Nonacademic Job Search
A Ph.D. who quit a tenure-track job offers a primer on how to get started on finding a new career path outside of academe.
- Changing History
- Sharing the Driving
- Zigzagging Through the Real World
- From Ph.D. to Self-Employed Consultant
- And if You Just Don't Go?
- Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
- A Hobby Becomes a Career
- From Biologist to Life Coach
- Quasi-Academic Careers
- From Academic to Radio Producer
- Every Ph.D. Needs a Plan B
- The Writing Business
- Adjusting to Corporate Culture
- An English Ph.D. Turns Novelist
Career Talk
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What to Expect in a Second-Round Interview
Whether you're seeking a tenure-track job or a nonacademic position, here's what you need to know about those interviews.
- The Tough Part Is the Transition
- Getting Away From the Lab
- What to Expect in a First-Round Interview
- How Do I Create a Professional Network?
- Deciding When to Leave
- What Can Faculty Members Do to Help?
- Writing Samples and Teaching Statements
- The CV Doctor Returns - 2010
- Managing Your Emotions on the Market
Catalyst
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Read Me (Please)
Tired of waiting for your colleague to respond to your manuscript? What can you do to end the delay?
- Can Well-Behaved Women Make (Academic) History?
- When Your Adviser Wants a Letter of Support
- Tales From the Grad-Advising Crypt
- The A to Z of Dual-Career Couples
- Led Down the Administrative Path
- Confessions of a Journal Editor
- A Man Walks Into a Department Office ...
- Leave Dr. Seuss Out of It
- An Insider's Tales From a Tenure Committee
- Getting to Know You: Just Don't Use Facebook
- The Joys of Making a Difference in Science
- I Did Not Slow Down Once I Got Tenure
- Working With Jerks
- Why 'Female' Science Professor?
First Person
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This Course Is Adults Only
Why your small children do not belong in my graduate-level course.
- So You Want to Examine Your University's Financial Reports?
- Grand Applications
- Keep It Short
- I've Got Tenure. How Depressing.
- Moving for All the Wrong Reasons?
- A Book at Last
- The Art of Rejection
- Service With a Smile
- Straight, Queer, or Academic?
- Lessons From the Medical-School Campus
- Becoming a President's Special Assistant
- Scholarly Reflections on Blogging: Once a Tortoise, Never a Hare
- 'I Abstain': A Failure of Academic Citizenship?
- Developing Your Student-Affairs Career Overseas
- Fast-Food Scholarship
- Here I'm a 'Member,' Not an Adjunct
- The 5 Species of Journal Reviewers
- Batman, Iron Man, and Me
- Deleting a History: From Résumé to CV
The Fund Raiser
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International Fund Raising: It's Not Just About the Money
A development team expands its effort to build relationships with alumni and parents in Asia.
- Choosing a Development Career
- What's on One Fund Raiser's Mind in 2010?
- Considering a Job in Fund Raising?
- The Professor as Fund Raiser
- Why Stewardship Is Critical Now, and Always
- The Three R's
- Advancing Knowledge
- Fund Raising in a Recession
- Moving On in Turbulent Times
The Graduate Adviser
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OK, Let's Teach Graduate Students Differently. But How?
What should graduate teaching look like when it aims to prepare students for a range of careers?
- Graduate Student Debt Matters
- The Time-to-Degree Conundrum
- Demystifying the Dissertation Proposal
- It's a Dissertation, Not a Book
Heads Up
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How Not to Reform Humanities Scholarship
Will the changes being proposed for scholarship in the humanities do more harm than good?
- Yes, Big Brother Is Watching
- Snowy Decision Making
- How Not to Measure Faculty Productivity
- Avoiding the Hunker-Down Strategy
- Safety First
- If Only I Knew Then ...
- Investigate Me, Please
- A Different Kind of Jury Duty
- If Universities Were Democracies
- When to Dissolve a Faculty Senate
- Carnegie Matters
- The Power of the Proxy
- To Party, or Not to Party
- Why Universities Are Streamlining Their Curricula
Moving Up
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Using a Case Study to Hire a Dean
How can a search committee get candidates to demonstrate concrete behaviors that are necessary for success in the job?
- Becoming a Dean
- Confidentiality Is Becoming the Norm in Presidential Searches
- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- How Institutional Fit Influences Presidential Selection
- Dos and Don'ts for the In-Person Interview
- Rejection, Resilience, Renaissance
- It's Hard to Say Goodbye: Extended Stays by Presidents
- What I Learned From YouTube
- The Right Kind of Nothing
- The Candidate and His Earring
- The Burden of Too Much Information
- Reflections of a Failed Dean
- Mind the Gap
- Your Next Few Leaders
Ms. Mentor
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Do I Have to Finish My Dissertation?
A graduate student moans and mourns the loss of passion for her research.
- Advertise My Courses? How Demeaning!
- A Young Professor Feels Left Out
- I Want to Make Them Squirm
- I Don't Fit In With the Oafs
- Whistle-Blowing or Witch Hunting?
- Novel Academic Novels
- I Want to Tell Them Off
- No Girls Aloud
- When a Charmer Becomes a Shark
- They Made Me a Despot
- Should You Rearrange Your Adviser's Furniture?
- So What Do You Teach?
- My Boss Is a Micromanager
- Betrayed in Academe
- Being Nice or Getting the Job Done
- Where Shall I Go A-Conferencing?
- Is There a Cure for the Summertime Blues?
- Am I Looking Good, or What?
- They Scoff at Your Piddly Rules
On Course
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Metacognition and Student Learning
Why do terrible singers go on "American Idol"? For the same reason that undergraduates have a false sense of their test readiness.
- Teaching and Human Memory, Part 2
- Teaching and Human Memory, Part I
- 21st-Century Campus Culture
- Re-energize at a Teaching Retreat
- Doing Research With Undergraduates
- Teaching Students to Write a Case Study
- Burns and Beyond
- How Do You Teach Networking?
- Beyond the Single Story
- A Classic 'Nontextbook' on Writing
- Classroom Pilgrimages
- Meet the Parents
- The Invisible Curriculum
- Plagiarizing Yourself
On Message
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Maxims for PR Success
Effectiveness on the job in campus public relations usually comes down to credibility.
- How to Use Blogging as a Marketing Tool
- What's in a Name?
- Writing Our Own Stories
- Getting the Most From Your Consultant
- The Art of Meeting
- On the Market in PR
OUTspoken
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Adoption Advice for Gay and Lesbian Employees
Institutions can easily develop programs, without significant cost, to assist parents through the adoption process.
- How to Be Welcoming
P&T Confidential
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Good Deeds That Are Most Punished, Part 1: Teaching
Young faculty members who try to help everyone in every way end up hurting their own productivity and careers.
- You Are Never a Sure Thing
- Pleasing the Peers
- How to Read a Student Evaluation
- How to Play Left Field at Job Interviews
- Making Up Isn't Hard to Do
- It's Your Fault
- It's Not Your Fault
- Keep on Zelda's Good Side
- Overcoming the 'Rattle Effect'
- How to Avoid Battling the Boss
- Knowing When to Defriend
- Spotting Your Faculty Enemies
- Pick Your Battles ... but How?
- Your First Search-Committee Gig
Page Proof
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Accepting the Way You Work
No ritual or routine to get things done is effective unless it's effective for you.
- The Art of 'the Ask'
- Why Are Some Academics Conversational Ball Hogs?
- What Looks Like Productivity
- The Problem Is: You Write Too Well
- Shame in Academic Writing
- Unconscious Plagiarism
- The Joys of Being the Dumbest Person in the Room
- The Writers' Workshop at Work
- Think of Yourself as a Writer
- Selling Your Book and Yourself
- Learning to Write From Uncle Ben
- A Writing Group of Two
- 'It Can Thereby Be Shown ... '
- Teaching in the Pokey
A President's Fifth Year
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Getting Used to Being Disliked
You become an academic leader because you are liked but, once in the job, you had better get used to some degree of antipathy.
- An Administrator's March Madness
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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We Need a New Interview Script
Why do we keep asking questions that result in little but vague, canned answers?
- The Rules About Classroom Rules
- The Brave New World of Job Hunting
- A Philosophy of Teaching
- Toward a Rational Response to Plagiarism
- The Liberal Arts Are Work-Force Development
- Why Are So Many Students Still Failing Online?
- What Did I Do Now?
- A Possible Pathway to the Profession
- The Advice Nobody Likes
- Preparing for Your Interview
- Faculty Enemies, Community-College Edition
- What's an Advice Columnist to Do?
- That Crucial First Impression
- Can I Teach at a Community College?
- Welcome to My Classroom
- The Four Quadrants of Administrative Effectiveness
- How You Might Get the Job
- Why You Didn't Get the Job
- How Are Professors Like Cats? Let Me Count the Ways.
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