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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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| News & Advice
Page Proof
How to avoid hurt feelings and battered relationships when friends turn to
you for a close read.
Career News
Most colleges are enduring the recession without layoffs or across-the-board
hiring freezes. But the pain is being felt on campuses in other ways, a new
survey shows.
First Person
An Illinois liberal-arts college bucks the trend and goes on a hiring binge.
Academic Assets
It is particularly urgent now for academics to attend to their savings and spending.
First Person
A veteran academic offers advice on what to expect at conference interviews
and how to conduct yourself.
Balancing Act
Female undergraduate and graduate students voted for Obama in great
numbers. So what do they want from him now?
The Two-Year Track
Sometimes our own actions and attitudes unwittingly reinforce the negative
stereotypes about community colleges.
Heads Up
E-mail has been around long enough that you'd think we would have learned
how to handle it by now.
An Academic in America
The business culture that dominates today's museums has no room for the eccentricities of introverted curators.
The Adjunct Track
The predictable reaction to recent studies about part-time instructors is as
insightful as the data.
Moving Up
How the science of economics is instrumental in helping a president run his
university.
Career Talk
Preparing to attend your first big academic convention? Here's what you need
to consider.
First Person
The process of revising a grant proposal can help you turn piecemeal work
into a coherent whole.
First Person
The choice between a job in industry or academic science would be easy if it
really were a binary decision.
P&T Confidential
Praise in a letter of recommendation has more impact when it is honest,
detailed, balanced, and on point.
On Message
No two controversies are the same, but some basic public-relations
principles can help you handle the fallout.
Ms. Mentor
Should you wail to your colleagues, wait your turn, or find your own little
piece of turf?
Moving Up
Five rules to help you as a midlevel administrator lead people over whom you
have no real authority.
On Course
Do Web sites that format citations for students negate the need to teach
them how to create a proper source list?
The Fund Raiser
After 18 years in campus development, a fund raiser tries out the consulting
world.
Balancing Act
Oocyte cryopreservation is not the secret to professional success in
academe.
Career Talk
Our experts evaluate the CV's of three faculty-job candidates and an
administrator seeking to move up.
Career News
College workers in midcareer are most likely to express negative feelings about their jobs, The Chronicle's first extensive survey of college workplaces has found.
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Colleges Protect Workers and Cut Elsewhere Reimbursements Like Molasses Read a special report on how colleges are working to diversify their faculties and staffs. ForumsNew Topics
When I Get a Job ...
What will you do when you land a job?
Ambivalence About Dissertation and Academe
A graduate student is having misgivings about pursuing an academic career.
Cell-Phone Policy
How do you deter students from using their cell phones in class?
Community-College Stigma?
A job seeker wonders whether a stint at a community college will hurt his chances of landing a tenure-track job at a four-year institution.
Extra Credit
Do you offer extra-credit assignments in your courses?
Attendance Policy, Grade Complaint, Unsupportive Chair
A professor who lowered the grade of a student with too many absences wonders if he should stand his ground or back down now that the student has complained to his department chairman.
Is the Job Market That Bad?
Academics compare this year's job market with that of previous years.
No, I Can't Teach Hot Subfield
How would you respond if you were asked if you could teach a course in an area in which you have little training?
Unjustified A?
Have you ever awarded a student a higher grade than they deserved?
Hiring Freeze
Job seekers compare notes on which institutions have declared a hiring freeze.
Conversations with Students
Professors share their "favorite" conversations with students.
Job-Market Check-In Thread
Share information about how your search is progressing.
2008 Tenure-Track Newbies
Starting assistant professors recount their joys and frustrations on the job. Available Forums
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