The Fund Raiser
Considering a Job in Fund Raising?
Brian Taylor
I know what you're thinking after reading that headline: "Search for a new job? I'm just thankful to have any job in this economy." With layoffs at companies in what appears to be nearly every industry, and economic news good one day and bad the next, everyone currently employed should be pleased. But you don't have to delay your job search just because of the uncertain news all around us....
On Hiring
- The Future of the Dissertation
- Hiring and Firing Bytes
- Simple Faculty-Load Tricks
- Trinkets and Tokens
- Hiring for the Mission
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
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?
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
Latest Do-Your-Job-Better Columns
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Fight Your Own Battles
Deploying students as surrogate warriors violates everything we stand for as a professoriate.
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Speaking of Speaking
It is possible to be a reserved, soft-spoken scientist and still enjoy a talking-intensive career in academe.
- Can You Get Us President Obama, Please?
- The 5 Characteristics of Successful New Faculty Members
- Growing Pains
Recent Advice Columns
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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.
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A Tale of Two Lobbying Firms
Budget turmoil forces administrators to choose sides over which lobbyist to keep.
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Value, Price, and Fees
Distinguishing between price and value can boost your retirement returns.
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