http://chronicle.com/section/Do-Your-Job-Better/72/ Advice :: Do Your Job Better Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:12:22 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130716/ http://chronicle.com/article/Making-a-Public-PhD/130716/ How, specifically, do you put together a program that will prepare graduate students for nonacademic careers?

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130674/ http://chronicle.com/article/This-Course-Is-Adults-Only/130674/ Why your small children do not belong in my graduate-level course.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130492/ http://chronicle.com/article/Keep-It-Short/130492/ The last thing students want to hear at their commencement ceremonies is a long faculty speech.

]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130466/ http://chronicle.com/article/We-Need-a-New-Interview-Script/130466/ Why do we keep asking questions that result in little but vague, canned answers?

]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130465/ http://chronicle.com/article/Accepting-the-Way-You-Work/130465/ No ritual or routine to get things done is effective unless it's effective for you.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130327/ http://chronicle.com/article/MetacognitionStudent/130327/ Why do terrible singers go on "American Idol"? For the same reason that undergraduates have a false sense of their test readiness.

]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130329/ http://chronicle.com/article/Straight-Queer-or-Academic-/130329/ A couple of "couples" talk research relationships in higher education.

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130218/ http://chronicle.com/article/OK-Lets-Teach-Graduate/130218/ What should graduate teaching look like when it aims to prepare students for a range of careers?

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130107/ http://chronicle.com/article/I-Abstain-A-Failure-of/130107/ Abstentions allow faculty members to affect a tenure case without taking any responsibility for how they voted.

]]> Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130078/ http://chronicle.com/article/TeachingHuman-Memory/130078/ A look at how faculty members should adjust their teaching to take advantage of new research on how students retain information.

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130048/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Rules-About-Classroom/130048/ Making policies that are difficult to enforce can quickly turn your classroom into a mini police state.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130049/ http://chronicle.com/article/Fast-Food-Scholarship/130049/ Too many Ph.D.'s, veterans and rookies alike, are trading methodical scholarship for speedy publication.

]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130016/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-5-Species-of-Journal/130016/ A look at the reviewer who thinks he should have written your paper and other types you will encounter in the publication process.

]]> Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129972/ http://chronicle.com/article/Batman-Iron-ManMe/129972/ A professor seeks to have a different kind of impact by slipping science into the mainstream via pop-culture icons.

]]> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129905/ http://chronicle.com/article/Advertise-My-Courses-How/129905/ Must I sell out, a professor in a traditional discipline wonders, and surrender all professional dignity?

]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129885/ http://chronicle.com/article/Pleasing-the-Peers/129885/ How should you handle those two gray eminences sitting in the back of your classroom watching you work?

]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129814/ http://chronicle.com/article/5-Big-Secrets-Your-Staff/129814/ The faculty-supremacy complex afflicts far too many in your ranks.

]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129812/ http://chronicle.com/article/Graduate-Student-Debt-Matters/129812/ Faculty need to take a stand against a cynical overreliance on loans that hamstrings our graduate students.

]]> Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129778/ http://chronicle.com/article/TeachingHuman-Memory/129778/ Faculty members are working under a badly outdated model of human memory that has shaped teaching practices for years.

]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129641/ http://chronicle.com/article/Chalk-It-Up-to-Inexperience/129641/ A new department chair discovers some unforeseen realities of the job.

]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129620/ http://chronicle.com/article/Translating-7-Effective-Habits/129620/ In a society where technology is constantly overstimulating our minds, it's time to add the humanistic values back to our teaching.

]]> Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129619/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-For-Profit-Colleges-Fail/129619/ A writing coach explains how the institutions could offer more guidance.

]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129553/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Read-a-Student/129553/ The end-of-semester ratings are an object of scorn, dread, praise, faith, and power in academe today.

]]> Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129477/ http://chronicle.com/article/Giving-Us-a-Say/129477/ What every department needs is a sustained forum to deal with graduate students' concerns about their Ph.D. program.

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129411/ http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Bait-and-Switch-/129411/ A professor's attempts to teach the skills of argumentation to his freshmen-composition students backfires.

]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129333/ http://chronicle.com/article/21st-Century-Campus-Culture/129333/ If students aren't connecting intellectually outside of class, we have to work harder to help them do so in our courses.

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