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To the Editor: One of the most disagreeable conditions to which job candidates are subject is that, more than occasionally, the search committee is not really searching (“A Bill of Rights for Job Candidates,” The Review, January 26). The advertised position has already been all but promised to an…

Descriptions of new scholarly books, organized by category.

Al Gore probably had a lot of reasons why he accepted a visiting professorship at Columbia University’s journalism school after his Supreme Court-decided election defeat. Among his reasons, according to CNN, were so that he could work part time and easily visit his daughter and grandson -- although…

Don’t have sex with your students. It would be hard to find faculty members who do not know that sex with their own students is taboo. But, if reciting that rule is the extent to which professors examine the boundaries of their student-teacher relationships, they ignore a whole set of norms and…

My students and friends will be surprised by this confession. As a full professor with tenure, I have given workshops to colleagues and professionals throughout the world and have lectured to classes as large as 250 students. I can usually be counted on to mouth off during a faculty meeting or as…

We hear a lot about student hazing on campuses, but there is another form that rarely gets noticed: the hazing of academic job applicants. Last spring I experienced this firsthand when I was a finalist for a faculty position at a college in another state. Coincidentally, I was also head of a search…

We hear a lot about student hazing on campuses, but there is another form that rarely gets noticed: the hazing of academic job applicants. Last spring I experienced this firsthand when I was a finalist for a faculty position at a college in another state. Coincidentally, I was also head of a search…