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AdviceHow to Embrace Uncertainty in Your Teaching
Five simple ways to spark your students’ curiosity and learning by welcoming mistakes and ambiguity in the classroom. -
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ChatGPT Just Got Better. What Does That Mean for Our Writing Assignments?
An educator who tested the new GPT-4 before its release offers advice for faculty members on how to respond. -
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Admin 101: The Difficult Mind Games of an Unexpected Promotion
How to cope with the psychological jolts that will greet you when you move into a leadership post on short notice. -
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Why Doctoral Programs Should Require Courses on Pedagogy
The case for paying far more attention to developing teaching skills in graduate school. -
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Ask the Chair: Is This Tenure Candidate ‘Playing’ Me?
A new department head wonders how to both mentor and judge a junior colleague with a thin dossier. -
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Can the ‘Pitch Deck’ Help Academics?
You can opt to bore your audience silly with dense PowerPoint slides — or, you can adapt a popular business technique to better make your case. -
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The Great Tenure-Track Job Search Show
How a British baking show is (and isn’t) a reasonable metaphor for the academic hiring market. -
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How to Run a Good Meeting
You’ve been in your share of awful meetings. Here’s how to lead better ones. -
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How to Make Room for Neurodivergent Professors
Seventeen years into his career, a faculty member finds out he is autistic. It explains a lot, he says. -
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Will Mandated Mental-Health Breaks Do More Harm Than Good?
New policies presume it’s beneficial for anxious students to take days off from class. That assumption has several critical flaws.
