Manya Whitaker is an executive vice president and chief of staff at Colorado College and an associate professor of education. She writes for The Chronicle about academic-career issues. Read her previous columns here.
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An administrator’s front-row view of the competition for hiring senior staffers.
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You can’t see the entire field while you’re playing the game.
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A new vice president shares five factors to keep in mind as you weigh leaving faculty life.
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How to select committee work that brings you some measure of satisfaction.
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A professor in her first year as department head shares what she learned in a leadership-training workshop.
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Even well into your career, you may still be figuring out a productive writing practice.
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Search committees routinely ask candidates to submit a statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Here’s what not to write.
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The fall semester promises to be as stressful as the spring. What can you do as a department chair to lead in a compassionate way?
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Academe’s emergency shift to remote instruction has been toughest on faculty members who tended to resist digital tools. Here’s how one such “resister” coped.
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A newly tenured faculty member decides it’s not too early to start planning for her next promotion.