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Opinion
What Are Your Terms?
David M. Ball sees the controversy over a rescinded job offer as reflecting larger tensions between research universities that train doctoral students and the other institutions that employ them.
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When Productivity Becomes Hyperactivity
Are graduate students pushing themselves (or being pushed) to do too much research? Stephen Reese wonders.
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Applying to Community Colleges
Candidates need a different approach from what they may have learned in graduate school, writes Mark Connelly.
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(Probably) Refusing to Quit
Patrick Iber is still waiting for the job everyone said he would find.
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Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent
Two adjuncts discuss career challenges, economic realities and gender.
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Finding Nursing Professors
Colleges need short- and long-term strategies to deal with a severe shortage, writes Regina M. Cusson.
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In Search of Lost Time
Philip Nel asks why faculty members work so much, and whether doing so is healthy for themselves and academe.