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News & Advice by DateCatalyst
Are a moderately heavy teaching load and an active research program mutually
exclusive?
(7/3/2008)
First Person
Recent job postings and hires suggest that many academic libraries are
losing interest in hiring humanities Ph.D.'s.
(7/1/2008)
Career News
Stolen computers containing sensitive data are a growing and costly problem
for colleges.
(7/1/2008)
First Person
An associate professor ponders the cause and effect of academic infighting.
(6/30/2008)
An Academic in America
An English professor immerses himself in an emerging field that has already
begun to redefine academic work.
(6/27/2008)
Balancing Act
With four courses to teach, two conference panels to run, and a visiting poet to entertain, something had to give.
(6/26/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. in economics makes the transition from graduate student to potential
colleague.
(6/25/2008)
First Person
Graduate students often have no idea how to communicate with their advisers.
(6/24/2008)
Ms. Mentor
Without routine friendly interaction, many an academic turns to brooding, fuming, and toting up injustices.
(6/23/2008)
The Two-Year Track
Are you qualified to teach at a community college? Time to check your
graduate-school transcript.
(6/20/2008)
P&T Confidential
Whether you are comfortable with the label or not, you are the 'boss,' and you must act like one.
(6/19/2008)
Beyond the Ivory Tower
Working for a law firm, an English Ph.D. spends his days teaching writing
but actually getting paid well for it.
(6/18/2008)
Page Proof
To those of you with other people's manuscripts sitting on your desk, get to
them soon or give them back.
(6/17/2008)
First Person
Among other things, a Facebook profile means you get to see how your students react when you hand out their grades.
(6/16/2008)
First Person
Despite ceaseless murmurings about a 'global' age, most scholars remain narrowly bound to nation and discipline.
(6/13/2008)
Balancing Act
Why should admitting in a job interview that you have small children be so consequential?
(6/12/2008)
Career Talk
If you plan to apply for teaching jobs at two-year colleges, here's what you need to consider.
(6/11/2008)
The Fund Raiser
Isn't fund raising a job you could do just as easily from home as from a campus office?
(6/10/2008)
On Course
A new book tells the story of an excellent teacher but sometimes offers strangely specific advice as gospel truth.
(6/9/2008)
Heads Up
Disciplinary societies should devise a rigorous peer-review process for evaluating scholarly Web sites.
(6/6/2008)
The Party Line
Would a legislature filled with more college graduates correspondingly benefit higher education?
(6/5/2008)
First Person
An academic librarian who took a risk and conducted a geographically narrow search has secured her first tenure-track position.
(6/4/2008)
Moving Up
The ideal search committee resembles an athletic team made up of people who play key positions in a coordinated effort.
(6/3/2008)
Catalyst
The best way to find out what agencies look for in a grant proposal is to participate in a review session yourself.
(6/2/2008)
An Academic in America
Should faculty members reveal uncomfortable truths to prospective parents, or should we just try to make the sale?
(5/30/2008)
First Person
As the purpose of a professor's work trips has changed, so has the nature of the accommodations.
(5/29/2008)
Ms. Mentor
For academics, summertime doesn't always mean the living is easy.
(5/28/2008)
Moving Up
A midlevel administrator swings and misses in his first shot at moving up the ranks.
(5/27/2008)
First Person
A search committee thought it had selected 18 excellent candidates -- until it met them.
(5/23/2008)
Page Proof
As academics, we often don't look like we're working because many of the people around us don't understand what it looks like to do intellectual work.
(5/22/2008)
First Person
A newly minted Ph.D. in religious studies lands her first tenure-track job.
(5/21/2008)
The Two-Year Track
For department heads, distinguishing legitimate student complaints from baseless ones is a vital job skill.
(5/20/2008)
P&T Confidential
In every assistant professor there seems to lurk a Karate Kid seeking a Mr. Miyagi.
(5/19/2008)
First Person
The vote was in her favor but not unanimous; so why was everyone acting as if she had terminal cancer?
(5/16/2008)
First Person
For an administrative job candidate, the excitement of taking an offer goes hand in hand with fear and a touch of disillusionment.
(5/15/2008)
In your first year on the tenure track, be prepared for your confidence to take a beating.
(5/14/2008)
First Person
Back when I was a student, it, like, took a lot of effort to pilfer someone else's work.
(5/13/2008)
On Course
So you want to apply to teaching-oriented colleges but don't have any classroom experience?
(5/12/2008)
First Person
The rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of the humanities professor as thriving public scholar, writes Patricia Nelson Limerick.
(5/9/2008)
First Person
A Ph.D. in geological sciences always knew he wanted to teach; so how did his career get so focused on research?
(5/8/2008)
The Fund Raiser
Sometimes all it takes is a parking ticket for a donor to reconsider giving to a college.
(5/7/2008)
First Person
Contrary to popular belief, the faculty-career route is not disproportionately paved with peril.
(5/6/2008)
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