Academic Assets
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TIAA-CREF and You
Making the most of your options with higher education's major retirement-plan provider need not be bewildering.
- Of Human Bondage, Part 2
- Of Human Bondage
- Choosing Investments for Balance
- Diversification Still Works
- Tax Planning and Sabbatical Leaves
- Saving, Speculation, Investment
- Tolerance, Risk, and Reward
- How Much Should I Save?
- Investing for Retirement
An Academic in America
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Screening Out the Introverts
Is academe biased against quiet, thoughtful listeners in favor of big-talking extroverts?
- A Type of Nostalgia
- Invisible Gorillas Are Everywhere
- We're Still in Love With Books
- 'Getting to Clear'
- Big-Tent Digital Humanities: a View From the Edge, Part 2
- 'Big Tent Digital Humanities,' a View From the Edge, Part 1
- 100 Columns Later
- On Deadlines and Dead Grandmothers
- A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2
- A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education
- Getting Medieval on Higher Education
- On Gratitude in Academe
- Why Do They Hate Us? Part 2
- Why Do They Hate Us?
- Getting Real at the Natural-History Museum, Part 2
- Getting Real at the Natural-History Museum
- Marian the Cybrarian
- Making a Reasonable Choice
- 'A Very Special Marketplace'
The Academic Expat
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For Academic Expatriates, Families Can Be a Big Risk Factor
What about the spouse? What about the children? Academics considering the expat life should think about these questions carefully.
- For Expat Professors in South Korea, Students Can Be the Biggest Cultural Surprise
- Cross-Cultural Skills: Essential for Expatriate Success
The Adjunct Track
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10 Ways to Get Yourself Fired
Whatever you do as a non-tenure-track faculty member, don't do any of these things.
- Dodgy Definitions of Merit
- An Adjunct's View
- Why Don't We Insist on Equity?
- Academe's House Rules
- Sticks and Stones, or Titles and Truth?
- The Silence of the Grads
- Help Is on the Way
- My Foray Into Adjunct Life
- The New Faculty Wife
Balancing Act
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The Future of the Ph.D.
Does the venerable male model of graduate training match the needs of its disciples today, half of whom are women?
- The Next Step for Female Scientists
- The Pyramid Problem
- Answering the Illegal Question
- How to Change Workplace Culture on Parenting
- Have No Illusions: Dual Academic Careers
- The Three-Body Problem
- E-Mail: the Third Shift
- Women, Tenure, and the Law
- The Academic-Motherhood Handicap
- Still Earning Less
- Title IX Includes Maternal Discrimination
- Why So Few Doctoral-Student Parents?
- Superprofessor Meets Supermom
- How the 'Snow-Woman Effect' Slows Women's Progress
Beyond the Ivory Tower
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Our Secret Nonacademic Histories
Today's graduate students are still being told, directly and indirectly, that any career other than an academic one is unthinkable.
- The Sweet Spot of a Nonacademic Job Search
- Changing History
- Sharing the Driving
- Zigzagging Through the Real World
- From Ph.D. to Self-Employed Consultant
- And if You Just Don't Go?
- Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
- A Hobby Becomes a Career
- From Biologist to Life Coach
- Quasi-Academic Careers
- From Academic to Radio Producer
- Every Ph.D. Needs a Plan B
- The Writing Business
- Adjusting to Corporate Culture
Career Confidential
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Varieties of Procrastination
How to tell the difference between when it's OK to put off work and when you're only hurting yourself.
- Good Deeds That Are Most Punished, Part 3: Research
- Good Deeds That Are Most Punished, Part 2: Service
Career Talk
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Seeking the Mentors You Need
No one is going to walk up and offer kindly to be your mentor. You have to learn to ask.
- The Logistics of a Dual-Career Search
- What to Expect in a Second-Round Interview
- The Tough Part Is the Transition
- Getting Away From the Lab
- What to Expect in a First-Round Interview
- How Do I Create a Professional Network?
- Deciding When to Leave
- What Can Faculty Members Do to Help?
- Writing Samples and Teaching Statements
- The CV Doctor Returns - 2010
- Managing Your Emotions on the Market
- From Graduate Student to Faculty Member
- Career Paths for Life Scientists
- Following the Nonacademic Track
- Dealing With a Difficult Adviser
- Taking Your Questions
- The CV Doctor Is Back
- The CV Doctor Returns
- Should I Get Another Degree?
- Using the Summer to Explore Career Options
- Switching Sides, Part 4
- Switching Sides, Part 3
- How to Do an Informational Interview
- On the Market in a Recession
Catalyst
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Midcareer Mentoring, Part 2
You've got an outside offer, so how do you go about negotiating the counteroffer from your university?
- Midcareer Mentoring, Part 1
- Read Me (Please)
- Can Well-Behaved Women Make (Academic) History?
- When Your Adviser Wants a Letter of Support
- Tales From the Grad-Advising Crypt
- The A to Z of Dual-Career Couples
- Led Down the Administrative Path
- Confessions of a Journal Editor
- A Man Walks Into a Department Office ...
- Leave Dr. Seuss Out of It
- An Insider's Tales From a Tenure Committee
- Getting to Know You: Just Don't Use Facebook
- The Joys of Making a Difference in Science
- I Did Not Slow Down Once I Got Tenure
- Working With Jerks
- Why 'Female' Science Professor?
- Interesting Committee: Not (Always) an Oxymoron
- Invited Guests
- At Your Service
First Person
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This Can't Be Happening
What do you do when you throw up on the department chair during your job interview?
- What Really Matters to Working Students
- 10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics
- Don't Hug Them: Dealing With Student Crises
- Facing My 'Anonymous' Nemesis
- Accreditation and Faculty
- Things Look Pretty Male Here
- Why I Tossed Your Résumé
- How to Write an Anonymous Peer Review
- Graduate School Is Art School
- My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dissertation
- Teaching Future Scientists to Talk
- The Rhetoric of the CV
- To the Inside Candidate Who Did Not Get the Job
- The Endangered Scholarly Book Review
- Should Working-Class People Get B.A.'s and Ph.D.'s?
- What to Say—and Not Say—to Program Officers
- Graduate School Is a Means to a Job
- What I Learned About Surviving Graduate School
- The Inherent Unreliability of Student Evaluations
- My Last Index
- Every Monograph a Movie
- The Conference Season in Student Affairs
- Withdrawing From a Job You've Accepted
- A Pleasing Observation
The Fund Raiser
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International Fund Raising: It's Not Just About the Money
A development team expands its effort to build relationships with alumni and parents in Asia.
- Choosing a Development Career
- What's on One Fund Raiser's Mind in 2010?
- Considering a Job in Fund Raising?
- The Professor as Fund Raiser
- Why Stewardship Is Critical Now, and Always
- The Three R's
- Advancing Knowledge
- Fund Raising in a Recession
- Moving On in Turbulent Times
The Graduate Adviser
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Teaching Ph.D.'s How to Reach Out
Should doctoral students be required to take a communications course?
- Keyword: Placement
- The Comprehensive Exam: Make It Relevant
- Making a Public Ph.D.
- OK, Let's Teach Graduate Students Differently. But How?
Heads Up
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A Letter to a New Chair
The job of department chair carries an ounce of cachet and a ton of weight, but it's worth doing.
- Our Ever-Shifting Jargon
- Standing Out From the Crowd
- How Not to Reform Humanities Scholarship
- Yes, Big Brother Is Watching
- Snowy Decision Making
- How Not to Measure Faculty Productivity
- Avoiding the Hunker-Down Strategy
- Safety First
- If Only I Knew Then ...
- Investigate Me, Please
- A Different Kind of Jury Duty
- If Universities Were Democracies
- When to Dissolve a Faculty Senate
- Carnegie Matters
Moving Up
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Rent-a-Dean
For many, the pull toward administration overrides the challenges of an interim job.
- Using a Case Study to Hire a Dean
- Becoming a Dean
- Confidentiality Is Becoming the Norm in Presidential Searches
- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- How Institutional Fit Influences Presidential Selection
- Dos and Don'ts for the In-Person Interview
- Rejection, Resilience, Renaissance
- It's Hard to Say Goodbye: Extended Stays by Presidents
- What I Learned From YouTube
- The Right Kind of Nothing
- The Candidate and His Earring
- The Burden of Too Much Information
- Reflections of a Failed Dean
- Mind the Gap
Ms. Mentor
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Death by Discussion
Someone save me from these meetings.
- Annoying Young Colleague
- I Can't Learn Their Names
- Do I Have to Finish My Dissertation?
- Advertise My Courses? How Demeaning!
- A Young Professor Feels Left Out
- I Want to Make Them Squirm
- I Don't Fit In With the Oafs
- Whistle-Blowing or Witch Hunting?
- Novel Academic Novels
- I Want to Tell Them Off
- No Girls Aloud
- When a Charmer Becomes a Shark
- They Made Me a Despot
- Should You Rearrange Your Adviser's Furniture?
- So What Do You Teach?
- My Boss Is a Micromanager
- Betrayed in Academe
- Being Nice or Getting the Job Done
- Where Shall I Go A-Conferencing?
On Course
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On Teaching Awards
An innovative model seeks to reward good teachers and benefit from them as well.
- Using Twitter to Talk About Teaching
- The Best-Laid Teaching Schemes
- So You Think You Can Lecture?
- Metacognition and Student Learning
- Teaching and Human Memory, Part 2
- Teaching and Human Memory, Part I
- 21st-Century Campus Culture
- Re-energize at a Teaching Retreat
- Doing Research With Undergraduates
- Teaching Students to Write a Case Study
- Burns and Beyond
- How Do You Teach Networking?
- Beyond the Single Story
- A Classic 'Nontextbook' on Writing
On Message
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Maxims for PR Success
Effectiveness on the job in campus public relations usually comes down to credibility.
- How to Use Blogging as a Marketing Tool
- What's in a Name?
- Writing Our Own Stories
- Getting the Most From Your Consultant
- The Art of Meeting
- On the Market in PR
OUTspoken
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Adoption Advice for Gay and Lesbian Employees
Institutions can easily develop programs, without significant cost, to assist parents through the adoption process.
- How to Be Welcoming
P&T Confidential
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You Are Never a Sure Thing
Sometimes, departmental reviews of an assistant professor's work can be cryptic or misleadingly positive.
- Pleasing the Peers
- How to Read a Student Evaluation
- How to Play Left Field at Job Interviews
- Making Up Isn't Hard to Do
- It's Your Fault
- It's Not Your Fault
- Keep on Zelda's Good Side
- Overcoming the 'Rattle Effect'
- How to Avoid Battling the Boss
- Knowing When to Defriend
- Spotting Your Faculty Enemies
- Pick Your Battles ... but How?
- Your First Search-Committee Gig
- Everyone Knows Your Search Fell Short
Page Proof
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Why We Can't Farm Out the Teaching of Writing
Insecure about their own prose, too many faculty members shy away from evaluating the quality of their students'.
- Why Bother Writing Book Reviews?
- Not My Type
- Accepting the Way You Work
- The Art of 'the Ask'
- Why Are Some Academics Conversational Ball Hogs?
- What Looks Like Productivity
- The Problem Is: You Write Too Well
- Shame in Academic Writing
- Unconscious Plagiarism
- The Joys of Being the Dumbest Person in the Room
- The Writers' Workshop at Work
- Think of Yourself as a Writer
- Selling Your Book and Yourself
- Learning to Write From Uncle Ben
A President's Fifth Year
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Getting Used to Being Disliked
You become an academic leader because you are liked but, once in the job, you had better get used to some degree of antipathy.
- An Administrator's March Madness
A President's Fourth Year
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We're All in This Together
How the frigid economic climate is creating a certain human warmth on our campuses.
- How to Avoid Becoming a One-Hit Wonder
The Two-Year Track
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What Graduate Students Want to Know About Community Colleges, Part 2
A look at the workload and lifestyle you can expect while teaching at a two-year institution.
- What Graduate Students Want to Know About Community Colleges, Part 1
- Online Classes and College Completion
- What to Ask—and Not to Ask—in Your Interview
- We Need a New Interview Script
- The Rules About Classroom Rules
- The Brave New World of Job Hunting
- A Philosophy of Teaching
- Toward a Rational Response to Plagiarism
- The Liberal Arts Are Work-Force Development
- Why Are So Many Students Still Failing Online?
- What Did I Do Now?
- A Possible Pathway to the Profession
- The Advice Nobody Likes
- Preparing for Your Interview
- Faculty Enemies, Community-College Edition
- What's an Advice Columnist to Do?
- That Crucial First Impression
- Can I Teach at a Community College?
- Welcome to My Classroom
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