Higher Education Career Advice

Career Advice

Nate Kreuter considers the role of instructors when their students come to them with decidedly nonacademic problems.

Even if you find at a campus visit that an institution isn't for you, never show a lack of interest, writes Kathryn Hume.

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Don’t Hit Send Until You Read This

E-mail communication is fast and convenient -- which is exactly why it often exacerbates conflict, rather than helping avoid it, writes John Frazee.

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How to Enjoy a Sabbatical

Sybil L. Holloway considers the roles of planning, preparation and setting reasonable expectations.

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Will I Write a Letter for You?

Chris Blattman offers ideas on how to approach a professor to help you on part of the process for getting into a grad program or landing an academic job.

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Mend the Gap

Evaluating Colleagues: Time Well Spent

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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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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