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Serious Fun
Creating an electronic portfolio of your academic work for tenure or promotion may be the best approach -- but only if it feels authentic to you, write Paula Dagnon and Karen Hoelscher.
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Presidential First Steps -- II
Patrick Sanaghan and Kimberly Eberbach offer practical advice on reaching out to constituents, managing the staff and setting the agenda.
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Presidential First Steps - I
Patrick Sanaghan and Kimberly Eberbach suggest the questions a new campus leader should ask, and offer advice on listening skills.
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Helping Students Think About Thinking
Humanities and social science instructors should help undergraduates learn how to recognize and describe their higher order skills as they hit the job market, Casey Wiley writes.
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'Plan B' and Bob Dylan
Felicia B. LeClere rejects the idea that the only reason to get a Ph.D. is for an academic career.
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Tyro Tracts
Pushy Textbook Publishers
Nate Kreuter writes about the frustration of receiving unsolicited review copies -- and the impact of marketing efforts on the curriculum.
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Making Our Ideas More Accessible
To improve our reach, academics must make our writings both more available and public-friendlier, writes Nathan Jurgenson.
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The Golden Rule
It's time for search committees to treat candidates with the respect scholars on the panels would expect to receive themselves, and that means basic communication at a minimum, writes Jay Draper.
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When to Collaborate
Grad students and junior faculty members need to weigh carefully the choices associated with working with an established scholar vs. pursuing their own projects, writes Sue V. Rosser.
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Open Letter to Higher Ed Scholars
How can researchers who study higher education better influence the (often flawed) public debate about colleges and universities? Rhonda McClellan and Joshua Powers offer suggestions.
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Advice Columnists

Elizabeth H. Simmons
• Mend the Gap
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• Demystifying the Dissertation
Teresa Mangum
• Academic Career Confidential
Sabine Hikel
• Leaving Academia
Terri Givens
• Running 'Round the Ivory Tower
Mary Churchill
• She's Got It! and Editor, University of Venus
Rob Weir
• Instant Mentor
Maria Shine Stewart
• A Kinder Campus
Kerry Ann Rockquemore
• Support for Summer Writers     • Faculty Writing Workshop         • Surviving the Tenure Track
Jessica Quillin
• Entrepreneurship and the Academic
Eszter Hargittai
• Ph.Do
Eliza Woolf
• On the Fence
Nate Kreuter
• Tyro Tracts
C.K. Gunsalus
• Survival Guide
Dean Dad
• Ask the Administrator

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Setting an Agenda
Susan Resneck Pierce considers the qualities that help some new presidents succeed -- and the misjudgments that hold others back.
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Application Advice
Hester Blum read 740 essays in a year from people seeking positions or grants. She explains how some people impress, and how seemingly small slips doom others' chances.
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A Kinder Campus
R.I.P. Civility, 0000-2012
With Maria Shine Stewart out of pocket, a guest author offers an alternative point of view on kindness. Me first!
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From Scientist to Administrator
Women are excelling in senior posts at universities, writes Sue V. Rosser, but researchers who leave the faculty ranks before becoming full professors may limit their careers.
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Tyro Tracts
Professorial Discretion
Young academics need to learn when to share information and when not to, writes Nate Kreuter.
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