Higher Education Career Advice

Career Advice

In the second essay in a two-part series, Elizabeth Simmons advises instructors on how they can best evaluate their faculty peers.

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The Middle East Option

Western academics can find good positions and plenty of the comforts they crave (with a better standard of living) far from home, writes William Roden.

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Tyro Tracts

E-Mail Boundaries

The way to keep electronic communication under control is to set expectations for professors and for students, writes Nate Kreuter.

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Mend the Gap

Leveraging Your Annual Evaluation

In the first of a two-part series on yearly reviews, Elizabeth Simmons suggests how faculty members can frame their self-evaluative essays in ways that help them and their institutions.

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Building the Pool

Efforts to diversify faculties will work only if diverse candidates are under consideration, write Armando Bengochea and Roger Brooks. They offer ideas on how to make that likely.

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The 'Be Yourself' Myth

To get hired, you need to master the six elements of a professional persona, writes Karen Kelsky.

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A Kinder Campus

Beating Campus Doldrums

Stock up on kindness to confront perils of winter, Maria Shine Stewart suggests.

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Tyro Tracts

Professor vs. Zombies

Nate Kreuter reflects on what he learned playing an all-campus game in which he was the only faculty member.

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Failing the French Test

Graduate programs in foreign languages need to stop letting their grad students go on the job market without sufficient fluency, writes Stephen Brockmann.

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Pathways to the Presidency

The New Research University Chief(s)

The biggest and best of the institutions will go global, while others will need to narrow their focus -- and those paths will require different sorts of leaders, Emily Miller and Richard Skinner argue.

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Advice Columnists

Elizabeth H. Simmons

• Mend the Gap

Peg Boyle Single

• 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

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