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A Ph.D. After 40
Lauren Easterling offers advice for successful job searches after obtaining your doctorate or completing a postdoc in midlife.
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Colleges Should Make It OK for Faculty to Disclose Disabilities
The academy continues to be ableist and disadvantage people with various learning abilities and those in neurodiverse learning communities, argues Karly Ball.
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Want Your Book to Be a Movie?: Part I
Follow your dream, but don’t hold your breath, advises Eric Jager, author of The Last Duel, who highlights the importance of luck, timing and the help of key people.
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Banned Books, Small Tasks and Hope for Civil Discourse
Nicole C. Livengood discusses her banned books class and offers suggestions for small tasks to help students in a range of courses develop the skills for engaging in civil discourse.
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So You’re Considering Working Abroad?
Bruce Taylor offers lessons from an almost 40-year career as a university expat.
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The Importance of Branding in Your Career
It defines who you are as a job seeker, what you are looking for, what you would like to achieve and, most important, what people associate with your name, writes Ketan Marballi.
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Unprofessional and Fundamentally Corrupt
The practice of co-authored chapters in a dissertation is deeply troubling and seems to defeat the purpose of demonstrating the ability to do original research, argues James Finkelstein.
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What Women Faculty Want in Allied Men
Meg A. Warren and Samit D. Bordoloi describe the actions exceptional male allies take—beyond just being decent and reasonable colleagues—that women find most valuable.