First Person
This Can't Be Happening
What do you do when you throw up on the department chair during your job interview?
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
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
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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
Latest Do-Your-Job-Better Columns
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What Really Matters to Working Students
Frustrated by attendance problems in his developmental English course, a professor asks students to help him understand.
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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.
- 10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics
- Don't Hug Them: Dealing With Student Crises
- Death by Discussion
Recent Advice Columns
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Teaching Ph.D.'s How to Reach Out
Should doctoral students be required to take a communications course?
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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?
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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.
