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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
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
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
Career Confidential
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Good Deeds That Are Most Punished, Part 3: Research
How to spot those promising research commitments that turn out to be dead ends for your career.
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?
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What Professors Make
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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.
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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.
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Recent Advice 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.
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10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics
An evangelist for tweeting explains the benefits for scholars and the common mistakes they make.
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
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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
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Peer Review
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New Dean's Mission: Expand the Reconfigured Jack Welch Institute
Daniel Szpiro, an assistant dean at Cornell University, is expected to rapidly increase enrollment at the business school, which was recently acquired by Strayer.
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