http://chronicle.com/section/Advice/66/ Advice Wed, 23 May 2012 04:13:49 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131904/ http://chronicle.com/article/Varieties-of-Procrastination/131904/ How to tell the difference between when it's OK to put off work and when you're only hurting yourself.

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 19:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131903/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Graduate-Students-Want-to/131903/ A look at the workload and lifestyle you can expect while teaching at a two-year institution.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131880/ http://chronicle.com/article/This-Cant-Be-Happening/131880/ What do you do when you throw up on the department chair during your job interview?

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131843/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Really-Matters-to-Working/131843/ Frustrated by attendance problems in his developmental English course, a professor asks students to help him understand.

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131831/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Letter-to-a-New-Chair/131831/ The job of department chair carries an ounce of cachet and a ton of weight, but it's worth doing.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131813/ http://chronicle.com/article/10-Commandments-of-Twitter-for/131813/ An evangelist for tweeting explains the benefits for scholars and the common mistakes they make.

]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131777/ http://chronicle.com/article/On-Teaching-Awards/131777/ An innovative model seeks to reward good teachers and benefit from them as well.

]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131776/ http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-PhDs-How-to-Reach/131776/ Should doctoral students be required to take a communications course?

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131749/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Future-of-the-PhD/131749/ Does the venerable male model of graduate training match the needs of its disciples today, half of whom are women?

]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131747/ http://chronicle.com/article/Seeking-the-Mentors-You-Need/131747/ No one is going to walk up and offer kindly to be your mentor. You have to learn to ask.

]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131748/ http://chronicle.com/article/Dont-Hug-Them-Dealing-With/131748/ Composition instructors become unwitting guides and counselors for many first-year students.

]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131708/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-We-Cant-Farm-Out-the/131708/ Insecure about their own prose, too many faculty members shy away from evaluating the quality of their students'.

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131707/ http://chronicle.com/article/Good-Deeds-That-Are-Most/131707/ How to spot those promising research commitments that turn out to be dead ends for your career.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131524/ http://chronicle.com/article/Empowering-educators/131524/ Schools and universities now have a remarkable opportunity to transform education for a new generation. Integrated digital learning resources and professional learning services make it easy to tailor curriculums and monitor progress to help students shine. Educational institutions are at an important juncture.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131525/ http://chronicle.com/article/Harnessing-the-Power-of/131525/ Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the way students want to learn, with more than six million students now taking at least one online course. As a seasoned educator and academic trainer in the field of higher education, I have seen the tremendous impact of technology on instruction and learning.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131526/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Unified-Modern/131526/ Workday provides the only unified global Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management solution delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS) and uniquely designed for the needs of Higher Education

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131631/ http://chronicle.com/article/Our-Ever-Shifting-Jargon/131631/ The language that circulates in discussions of higher education today reveals much about our values.

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131630/ http://chronicle.com/article/10-Ways-to-Get-Yourself-Fired/131630/ Whatever you do as a non-tenure-track faculty member, don't do any of these things.

]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131629/ http://chronicle.com/article/Facing-My-Anonymous-Nemesis/131629/ What's it like to come face to face with the peer reviewer who trashed your manuscript?

]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131599/ http://chronicle.com/article/Death-by-Discussion/131599/ Someone save me from these meetings.

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131600/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Graduate-Students-Want-to/131600/ Ph.D. candidates, and even some of their advisers, seem more interested than ever in careers at two-year colleges.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131577/ http://chronicle.com/article/AccreditationFaculty/131577/ It's time academics started paying attention to the increased governmental intrusion into academe's voluntary system of quality control.

]]> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131578/ http://chronicle.com/article/Things-Look-Pretty-Male-Here/131578/ A female Ph.D. seeking a teaching job in Britain finds an environment that continues to unduly privilege men.

]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131576/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Tossed-Your-R-sum-/131576/ Here are six mistakes that guarantee you won't get interviewed for a staff position in academe.

]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131521/ http://chronicle.com/article/Midcareer-Mentoring-Part-2/131521/ You've got an outside offer, so how do you go about negotiating the counteroffer from your university?

]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131520/ http://chronicle.com/article/Screening-Out-the-Introverts/131520/ Is academe biased against quiet, thoughtful listeners in favor of big-talking extroverts?

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