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
The Party Line
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Who's to Blame?
The profession of government relations teeters on the brink, just like so much else at our institutions.
- The Horror, the Horror of Midterm Elections
- The 10.1 Things a Government-Relations Officer Must Achieve
- A Tale of Two Lobbying Firms
- Can You Get Us President Obama, Please?
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
Salary Check
Faculty-Salary Increases at Public Colleges Trail Those at Private Ones
Salaries for faculty members across all disciplines rose by 1.9 percent this year, nearly matching the 2-percent rise in senior administrators' pay.
Average Faculty Salaries by Field and Rank, 2011-12
Readers Respond:
Elsewhere in The Chronicle
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President of California U. of Pennsylvania Is Fired
Angelo Armenti Jr., who had led the public institution for 20 years, was terminated a day before the release of an audit that criticized university financial dealings.
Latest Run-Your-Campus Columns
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Accreditation and Faculty
It's time academics started paying attention to the increased governmental intrusion into academe's voluntary system of quality control.
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Standing Out From the Crowd
It's a mistake for a state board to discourage competition between the public institutions in its borders.
- Online Classes and College Completion
- Helping the Re-Admitted Student
- How Not to Reform Humanities Scholarship
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.
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
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
