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Faculty Issues Career Development

For Some Anxious Faculty, Family Offers Relief

New research shows that early-career faculty are especially anxious but that having nearby family or a parent who is an academic alleviates stress. If faculty don’t have family to lean on, institutions can step in to offer support.

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Career Advice Advancing in the Faculty

Why Academics Need to Slow Down

Slowing down is key to more meaningful, intentional teaching and scholarship, Uddipana Goswami writes.

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5 Questions for an Equitable Pay Ecosystem

Addressing these questions will foster fairer compensation for faculty and staff at your institution, Carol Marchetti and Gloria L. Blackwell write.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

How Can Deans Support Faculty Well-Being?

Support for faculty well-being should be an expectation of academic leadership, Richard Badenhausen writes.

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Opinion
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‘What About Us?’

Institutions must invest in faculty and staff well-being at work, Vicki L. Baker and Rebecca Pope-Ruark write.

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Opinion
Career Advice Conditionally Accepted

A Path to Wellness for Women of Color Academics

Kenyatta Y. Dawson writes of the power of slowing down.

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Student Success The College Experience

All in a Day’s Work: 3 Stories of Changing Lives

Three professionals working in higher education share testimonies of how they’ve impacted students’ learning and future goals.

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Opinion
Career Advice

Imagining More Sustainable Higher Ed Careers

Genia M. Bettencourt, Lauren N. Irwin and Rosemary J. Perez offer strategies for achieving more sustainable careers even as they call for a deeper reimagining of roles.