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News & Advice by DateMs. Mentor
Advice on how best to dress, and act, when you look as young as your
students.
(7/23/2008)
Career News
Why are some of the greatest thinkers being expelled from their disciplines?
(7/23/2008)
On Course
The season of panic approaches for those faculty members entering the
college classroom for the first time.
(7/22/2008)
Career News
Will the retirement of aging baby boomers usher in an era of moderate
politics on campus?
(7/22/2008)
The Adjunct Track
Why adjunct faculty members don't feel like part of the academic division.
(7/21/2008)
Heads Up
Go ahead, submit a long, gossipy rant against your chairman, but prepare to
be ignored.
(7/18/2008)
First Person
Three assistant professors find the going tough in their first year on the
tenure track.
(7/17/2008)
The Party Line
If you understand why political leaders visit campuses, it changes how you
manage their visits.
(7/16/2008)
Career News
What red flags should you watch for as you navigate the job-market fun
house?
(7/16/2008)
Page Proof
Is it better to revise your first draft, or junk it and start over?
(7/15/2008)
Career News
College workers in midcareer are most likely to express negative feelings
about their jobs, The Chronicle's first extensive survey of college
workplaces has found.
(7/15/2008)
P&T Confidential
No better preparation for the tenure track exists than a graduate
assistantship; here's how to make the most of it.
(7/14/2008)
First Person
The true story of what it's like to spend a week grading Advanced Placement
exams.
(7/11/2008)
Beyond the Ivory Tower
Will not finishing your dissertation harm your career prospects in the
nonacademic world?
(7/10/2008)
First Person
Giving up a full year's leave to take only a semester off was a mistake but
even a limited break has its benefits.
(7/9/2008)
The Fund Raiser
Who, exactly, is the audience for a capital campaign once it goes public?
(7/8/2008)
Career Talk
A primer for new professors on what to expect in the first year on the job.
(7/7/2008)
Catalyst
Are a moderately heavy teaching load and an active research program mutually
exclusive?
(7/3/2008)
First Person
Recent job postings and hires suggest that many academic libraries are
losing interest in hiring humanities Ph.D.'s.
(7/1/2008)
Career News
Stolen computers containing sensitive data are a growing and costly problem
for colleges.
(7/1/2008)
First Person
An associate professor ponders the cause and effect of academic infighting.
(6/30/2008)
An Academic in America
An English professor immerses himself in an emerging field that has already
begun to redefine academic work.
(6/27/2008)
Balancing Act
With four courses to teach, two conference panels to run, and a visiting poet to entertain, something had to give.
(6/26/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. in economics makes the transition from graduate student to potential
colleague.
(6/25/2008)
First Person
Graduate students often have no idea how to communicate with their advisers.
(6/24/2008)
Ms. Mentor
Without routine friendly interaction, many an academic turns to brooding, fuming, and toting up injustices.
(6/23/2008)
The Two-Year Track
Are you qualified to teach at a community college? Time to check your
graduate-school transcript.
(6/20/2008)
P&T Confidential
Whether you are comfortable with the label or not, you are the 'boss,' and you must act like one.
(6/19/2008)
Beyond the Ivory Tower
Working for a law firm, an English Ph.D. spends his days teaching writing
but actually getting paid well for it.
(6/18/2008)
Page Proof
To those of you with other people's manuscripts sitting on your desk, get to
them soon or give them back.
(6/17/2008)
First Person
Among other things, a Facebook profile means you get to see how your students react when you hand out their grades.
(6/16/2008)
First Person
Despite ceaseless murmurings about a 'global' age, most scholars remain narrowly bound to nation and discipline.
(6/13/2008)
Balancing Act
Why should admitting in a job interview that you have small children be so consequential?
(6/12/2008)
Career Talk
If you plan to apply for teaching jobs at two-year colleges, here's what you need to consider.
(6/11/2008)
The Fund Raiser
Isn't fund raising a job you could do just as easily from home as from a campus office?
(6/10/2008)
On Course
A new book tells the story of an excellent teacher but sometimes offers strangely specific advice as gospel truth.
(6/9/2008)
Heads Up
Disciplinary societies should devise a rigorous peer-review process for evaluating scholarly Web sites.
(6/6/2008)
The Party Line
Would a legislature filled with more college graduates correspondingly benefit higher education?
(6/5/2008)
First Person
An academic librarian who took a risk and conducted a geographically narrow search has secured her first tenure-track position.
(6/4/2008)
Moving Up
The ideal search committee resembles an athletic team made up of people who play key positions in a coordinated effort.
(6/3/2008)
Catalyst
The best way to find out what agencies look for in a grant proposal is to participate in a review session yourself.
(6/2/2008)
An Academic in America
Should faculty members reveal uncomfortable truths to prospective parents, or should we just try to make the sale?
(5/30/2008)
First Person
As the purpose of a professor's work trips has changed, so has the nature of the accommodations.
(5/29/2008)
Ms. Mentor
For academics, summertime doesn't always mean the living is easy.
(5/28/2008)
Moving Up
A midlevel administrator swings and misses in his first shot at moving up the ranks.
(5/27/2008)
First Person
A search committee thought it had selected 18 excellent candidates -- until it met them.
(5/23/2008)
Page Proof
As academics, we often don't look like we're working because many of the people around us don't understand what it looks like to do intellectual work.
(5/22/2008)
First Person
A newly minted Ph.D. in religious studies lands her first tenure-track job.
(5/21/2008)
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