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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?
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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
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?
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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
Latest Do-Your-Job-Better Columns
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Making a Public Ph.D.
How, specifically, do you put together a program that will prepare graduate students for nonacademic careers?
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This Course Is Adults Only
Why your small children do not belong in my graduate-level course.
- Keep It Short
- We Need a New Interview Script
- Straight, Queer, or Academic?
Recent Advice Columns
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So You Want to Examine Your University's Financial Reports?
The official figures are usually correct; what you need to be wary of is the words and labels attached to those numbers.
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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.
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Grand Applications
Make like a 19th-century heroine and go after the money.
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