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What Are Your Terms?
David M. Ball sees the controversy over a rescinded job offer as reflecting larger tensions between research universities that train doctoral students and the other institutions that employ them.
When Productivity Becomes Hyperactivity
Are graduate students pushing themselves (or being pushed) to do too much research? Stephen Reese wonders.
Applying to Community Colleges
Candidates need a different approach from what they may have learned in graduate school, writes Mark Connelly.
(Probably) Refusing to Quit
Patrick Iber is still waiting for the job everyone said he would find.
Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent
Two adjuncts discuss career challenges, economic realities and gender.
Finding Nursing Professors
Colleges need short- and long-term strategies to deal with a severe shortage, writes Regina M. Cusson.
In Search of Lost Time
Philip Nel asks why faculty members work so much, and whether doing so is healthy for themselves and academe.