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Teaching Behind Enemy Lines
Susan Shaw offers advice for colleagues working in states where legislators are questioning progressive teaching and academic freedom.
Is Focusing on Your Strengths Sabotaging Your Success?
Julia Chinyere Oparah explains how knowing your derailers is an essential superpower for every leader in higher ed.
Safeguarding Black Women Educators’ Mental Health
Campus leaders and colleagues must recognize their battle fatigue—and the sophisticated racism at its root—and work to support them, write Jálin B. Johnson, Nakisha Castillo, Natalie V. Nagthall and Hawani Negussie.
The Virtues of Being a Selfish Teacher-Scholar
We’re pulled in many different directions and supposed to be jacks-of-all-trades, writes Anthony Barnhart, but that expectation is unreasonable.
Succeeding as a Gen Z Leader In Higher Ed
Megan Finlan advises how to manage and connect with a student team as an administrator when you just recently graduated yourself.
Making the Most of External Review Letters
Their quality must improve, and with that the credibility of promotion and tenure as a professional process, says Richard Utz, who offers some guidelines.
Things to Consider Before All in Favor Say, ‘AI’
Graduate students and postdocs shouldn’t use ChatGPT to help write first drafts, says Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan, as it robs them of an important opportunity.
The Brain-Body Problem and False Work-Play Dichotomy
Creative writing classes are often Islands of Misfit Toys, but students today seem just plain broken, says Rachel Toor, who tried something new to help mend them.