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Ensuring Professional Success
To advance you must interact with others, and the manner in which you do so affects your professional reputation, writes Michael A. Matrone.
Becoming an Alt-Ac Sex Educator
Gender, sex and sexuality are such important facets of human experience that I would be doing a disservice to my students to exclude those topics from the classroom, writes Jeana Jorgensen.
Creating On-Ramps to Academe
Colleges and universities looking to diversify STEM faculty should consider talented women in industry, government or private research, write Coleen Carrigan and Eve Riskin.
When Emotions Run High
The last time you experienced a communication problem may have been because you were too upset to properly convey your message, writes Elizabeth Suárez.
Summertime Blues
Far too many faculty members end up feeling anxious that they've accomplished -- and relaxed -- much less than they had hoped over the summer months, write Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist, who offer tips on how to avoid that.
The Job-Search Buddy System
If you want to be efficient and effective during your job search, you should collaborate with a partner -- or even several partners -- to help achieve each other's goals, advises Thomas Magaldi.
Off Track, On Point
Yes, I would like to be a tenured professor, writes Julie Shayne, but I decided to choose happiness over self-implosion.
An Administrator, Writing
Monica F. Jacobe provides five rules to help people with Ph.D.s who still want to produce scholarship yet work in professional jobs that don't demand or reward it.