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Opinion
Career Advice Advancing in the Faculty

Rebalancing Academic Productivity

Writing accountability groups support all faculty and address unequal workloads.

By Dustin T. Duncan

Covers of the books Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink; What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain; Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina; and Teaching & Learning Illuminated: The Big Ideas, Illustrated, by Bradley Busch, Edward Watson and Ludmila Bogatchek.
Opinion
Career Advice Teaching

10 Books for the Evidence-Based Professor

Consider this a starter kit in the science of learning.

By Benjamin Pacini

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Opinion
Career Advice Carpe Careers

How to Prepare for a Teaching-Track Academic Interview

You can’t control a lot of things about the application process—but you can control how well you prepare for the interview.

By Peter Harrington and Dinuka Gunaratne

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Opinion
Career Advice

Slow AI

Whether you’re an AI advocate or a skeptic, the slow AI movement has something to offer.

By Sam Illingworth

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Opinion
Career Advice

Burnout by a Million Paper Cuts

Behold: a job posting you’d never accept, but already did.

By Tim Franz et al.

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Opinion
Career Advice

What Grad Students Need: A Crash Course in Institutional Literacy

We’re preparing Ph.Ds. who lack basic knowledge about how universities work.

By Gabriela Garcia

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Opinion
Career Advice

Rethinking Fit: Autism and Equity in Faculty Hiring

Sociability is not the same as hireability. Colleges can take concrete steps to make the academic hiring process fairer for neurodivergent candidates.

By Gabriel Proulx

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Opinion
Career Advice

Professor Hamlet Contemplates Retirement

Such heady occasion demands a soliloquy.

By Sean McAleer