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Professors like to dismiss RateMyProfessors.com as frivolous, and even malicious, but they are using it more than they let on.
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The flexible schedule that makes academic life manageable for faculty parents is not a facet of presidential careers.
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So your adviser is a major figure in your discipline. How much will that help your career?
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The number of faculty openings in foreign languages this academic year is projected to decline by more than 10 percent.
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It's tough to land a job in campus public relations these days as candidates find fewer openings and more competition.
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Good-looking professors consistently outscore less attractive ones on student evaluations of teaching, a new study finds.
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To move up the ranks in student-housing offices, you've got to be willing to move around -- a lot.
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Can applicants with doctorates from distance-learning programs land tenure-track jobs in academe?
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Even the normally robust job market in economics has slowed down lately.
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Professors are retiring in mathematics but many departments don't have the money to replace them with tenure-track hires.
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A wave of faculty retirements is under way in physics but not all departments can afford to replace the retirees.
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The job market in English turned out to be not as bad as expected this year, but not particularly good either.
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At public universities, now is not the time for lavish presidential inaugurations.
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Despite the slow economy, two liberal-arts colleges manage to award major raises to full professors.
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State and federal budget woes have made it a tough time to be an administrator in government relations.
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Need help writing a statement of your teaching philosophy? Here are some tips on what to write, and what not to write.
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Job applicants are increasingly asked to submit a statement of their teaching philosophy. But do departments really use them?
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What can department heads do to improve the plight of adjuncts, and are they doing enough?
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Careers in campus chaplaincy can be emotionally draining, but chaplains say the work is more than just a job.
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Frustrated with conditions at four-year colleges, many faculty members embrace the two-year mission.
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After hiring 11 new assistant professors, SMU's engineering school takes the unusual step of training them in how to get grants.
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History departments had expected to be doing a lot of hiring to replace retirees, but the economy has put a damper on that.
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When most colleges calculate faculty workload, they only give science professors partial credit for teaching laboratory courses. Is that fair?
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Departments are increasingly tapping untenured faculty members to serve as chairmen.
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A small but growing e-mail list offers "desktop faculty development" to new academics and future ones.
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Jobs in institutional research can offer new career opportunities for the statistically minded.
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Professors who have been through post-tenure review offer advice on what to expect.
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Whether you think it has saved tenure or eroded it, post-tenure review is an unavoidable reality at most public institutions.
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It means more money, more power, and a better office. So why do some academics still say no to a promotion?
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More colleges are searching for chief information officers and finding a stronger pool of applicants.
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A look at the tricky relationships between new presidents and former presidents who remain on campus.
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DeSales University offers its faculty members a choice: Seek tenure or sign a five-year contract with a big bonus attached.
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In the market for academic librarians, there are more job openings than candidates.
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At Ohio State, the presidential search committee finds a new leader in just four months.
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Professors learn to look out for faculty interests when they sit on presidential search committees.
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In the fall, hundreds of graduate instructors and new assistant professors will teach on their own for the first time. Here's what to expect.
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Cutbacks by university presses raise fears about how junior faculty members will meet the standard for tenure.
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Female college presidents gathered for a summit last month to talk about how far they've come, and how far they've yet to go.
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Many admissions deans say they fell into the field, and in the process, fell in love with it.
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The competition between business schools and economics departments to hire Ph.D.'s in economics has helped drive up salaries in both arenas.
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The competition between business schools and economics departments to hire Ph.D.'s in economics has helped drive up salaries in both arenas.
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Why has the search for a new president been suspended at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford?
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The chief of development at Northwestern U. leaves before its campaign ends to take the top fund-raising job at Brown U.
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Academics who can't seem to organize their research files and offices have another option: Hire someone to do it for them.
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A look at the role that little-known associations play in helping administrators do their jobs.
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Two college presidents who are married to each other and work in the same town had the perfect arrangement. Then a better job came along.
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A plan to hire fewer lecturers and more tenure-track professors at the University of California at Davis runs into opposition.
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Here's what you need to know before you take a job at a denominational college.
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Seeking privacy, the new president of the University of Vermont opts to live off campus, and ends up angering students and taxpayers.
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The job of vice president for student affairs is no longer an end in itself but can lead to a presidency.
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Is it cronyism when new presidents hire their friends for senior staff jobs?
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In mathematics education, Ph.D.'s are few and job openings go unfilled.
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Princeton University looks outside the professional fund-raising circuit to hire its new vice president for development.
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Trustees at Florida International University slashed the budget, but promised the president a big raise.
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Professors at Williams College will soon have a reduced teaching load.
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New assistant professors discussed, at the recent MLA convention, how they landed their first tenure-track job.
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Job openings in history reach record levels, driven by faculty retirements.
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How the recession has affected hiring at a private research university in New York.
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How the recession has affected hiring at a public research university in Arizona.
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How the recession has affected hiring at a liberal-arts college in Iowa.
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How the recession has affected hiring at a community college in California.
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How the recession has affected hiring at a regional state university in Tennessee, a community college in California, a liberal-arts college in Iowa, a public research university in Arizona, and a private research university in New York.
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Job openings are up in the ever-competitive market for English faculty members, but so is the number of new Ph.D.'s.
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How departments deal with the death of a faculty member in the middle of a semester.
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A new recruitment tool at the University of California seeks to help new faculty members afford the high cost of housing in the state.
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