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How Deans Can Help End Service Slacking
Richard Badenhausen suggests ways they can chip away at the phenomenon, most of which don’t cost money and are replicable across institutions.
25 Rules for Successful Research Professors
Richard Primack offers advice for how to be a happy, healthy and productive researcher year after year.
A Primer for Prepping for Tenure Review
Kate Vacek and Letitia Henville offer tips for academics who've just landed their first tenure-track job about how to advance and succeed.
Teaching Behind Enemy Lines
Susan Shaw offers advice for colleagues working in states where legislators are questioning progressive teaching and academic freedom.
The Virtues of Being a Selfish Teacher-Scholar
We’re pulled in many different directions and supposed to be jacks-of-all-trades, writes Anthony Barnhart, but that expectation is unreasonable.
Do Academic Sabbaticals Offer Space to Rest?
Hanna Tervanotko explores questions about the purpose of a sabbatical today, such as whether it should primarily serve the individual or the institution.
How to Support Innovative Work in the Humanities
Stephanie Kirk and Christopher Schaberg share nine ways senior faculty can help shift institutional cultures and make leading-edge scholarship more valued.
Advice on Selecting Service Opportunities
Steve Baule describes some service options that might be available to new faculty members and provides advice on those they may want to consider.