Balancing Act
The Next Step for Female Scientists
Research careers would be possible for more women if federal agencies and universities agreed on a common baseline of benefits.
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 Party Line
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Who's to Blame?
The profession of government relations teeters on the brink, just like so much else at our institutions.
- The Horror, the Horror of Midterm Elections
- The 10.1 Things a Government-Relations Officer Must Achieve
- A Tale of Two Lobbying Firms
- Can You Get Us President Obama, Please?
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
What Leaders Made
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Compensation of 30 Private-College Presidents Topped $1-Million in 2008
As in years past, the top earners included leaders who received large payouts when they stepped down.
- Table: College Leaders Earning Over $1-Million in Total Compensation, 2008
- The New 990: More Data, More Headaches
- Table: Highest-Compensated Sitting Chief Executives, 2008
Search Presidents' Salaries
- Table: College Leaders Earning Over $1-Million in Total Compensation, 2008
Elsewhere in The Chronicle
Latest Run-Your-Campus Columns
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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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Think Outside the Lunch Box
Colleges can do more to share their remarkable collective intellectual capital with the communities in which they reside.
- Yes, Big Brother Is Watching
- Lessons From the Medical-School Campus
- Becoming a President's Special Assistant
Recent Advice 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.
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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.
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 ...
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
