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AdviceHow to Defuse a Classroom Conflict: Make It More Complex
Five practices to help students break through all the binary thinking. -
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How to Retain Your Best Staff Members
Four tips from a former student-affairs administrator on how to improve work culture on campus. -
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5 Easy Ways to Aid a Scholar Working Without a University
How faculty members can help “independent” researchers thrive (or, at least, survive). -
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7 Tips for Scholars on Writing for Nonacademics
To reach a wider audience, try to unlearn a few habits. -
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Ask the Chair: ‘I’ve Never Been a Boss Before’
A new chair seeks advice on how to be an effective supervisor of department staff members. -
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Tenure and the Arrival Fallacy
Wasn’t tenure the Holy Grail of academe? I had made it. Why wasn’t I overjoyed? -
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The Provost Files: 8 Dos and Don’ts for New Leaders
What to expect in your first year in academic administration. -
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Beating Yourself Up Is Labor, but It’s Not Work
Advice from an academic-productivity expert on how to extinguish self-defeating talk about your research abilities. -
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The Worst Career Advice I Have Received
Learning from other people’s mistakes can be as valuable as making your own — and much less painful. -
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Meals Matter in the Campus Interview
Being in performance mode is required as much for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as for any other part of a finalist visit.
