Gabriela Montell was an assistant editor and a longtime writer at The Chronicle, where she helped develop and launch an online career-news-and-advice hub for young academics and covered diversity, equity, and labor issues in academe.
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Writing a teaching philosophy can be a daunting task. Just how do you articulate your approach to the classroom? Worry not. Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz is here with six tips for expressing your philosophy and landing that job interview based on Gabriela Montel’s article “How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy.”
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A young female scientist explains why she turned down a tenure-track job offer.
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Think you can avoid the corporate world by going into college teaching? Think again, Jeanne Zaino says.
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How should you respond to being called out on your privilege? The same way you’d respond to being caught with your zipper down, a deep-sea biologist explains.
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A postdoc in astrophysics finds that the formula for keeping your academic hopes alive is completely at odds with the formula for keeping your relationship alive.
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Companies already pay big money to universities for naming rights. Why stop there?, an economics professor asks.
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A look at this week’s landmark Supreme Court rulings and what they could mean for college employees and employers.