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Stop Asking Candidates to Pay for Job Interviews
Job interviews at the annual Modern Language Association convention contribute to a system that leads to graduate students' impoverishment, argues MLA head Paula M. Krebs.
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Writing an Introductory Email
November 17, 2014
Paula Wishart offers advice on how to increase your response rate.
It’s the Teaching, Stupid!
November 14, 2014
Most job advertisements in the humanities and social sciences make the bad mistake of positioning tenure-track search committees to learn much more about applicants’ research than their teaching. In order to make the hiring process better-reflect their needs, many departments should consider taking a teaching-centered approach to their next job search.
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Faculty members need to learn to understand higher education finances, writes Nate Kreuter.
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International graduate students are faced with an added challenge on the U.S. job market -- get a job or go home -- but it's possible to turn their foreignness to their advantage, Christopher Garland writes.

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