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Why You? Why Us? Why Now?
Elaine P. Maimon explains why effectively interviewing for a job is often like speed dating.
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How to Be Off the Tenure Track and Love It
Gina Brandolino explores four common misconceptions about non-tenure-track jobs.
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Framing Classroom Incivility
Understanding what constitutes classroom incivility can help faculty members minimize its dangers while maximizing the teaching and learning opportunities it presents, advises Courtney N. Wright.
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Coping With Stateless Students
Alfreda James describes the challenges of dealing with the questions and behaviors of a generation without a legal or welcoming home.
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Making Black Life Matter in Academe
Colleges and universities must do more than just bring in a speaker from the movement, only momentarily suspending the whiteness that pervades the everyday life and operations of the campus, argues Eric Anthony Grollman.
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Just Do Good Work
Anxious about landing an academic job after graduation, Shantá R. Robinson ultimately discovered that true “How I Made It” stories involve uncertainties, mishaps and mistakes.
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An Ally in Troubling Times
Many activist professors are stretched thin from attending protests, leading campus conversations, helping students while also processing their own emotions and dealing with the general weight of the current political moment. Kerry Ann Rockquemore gives advice on how to support such colleagues on your campus.
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Green-Eyed Grad Student
Everything changed when my best friend immediately found tenure-track employment while I struggled to finish a dissertation that seemed increasingly like a waste of time, writes Patricia Grisafi.