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Postdoc Pay: A Women's Issue
If universities want to retain more female academic scientists, it's time to increase postdoc salaries, writes Jennifer Bussell.
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Entrepreneurial and Innovative
Amid so much change in higher education, Terri E. Givens writes that just as faculty critique questionable ideas, they also need to do more to share how they are using new strategies and experimenting to improve teaching and research.
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Have a Contingency Plan
Nate Kreuter questions the conventional wisdom of telling would-be graduate students who want to be professors to enroll only "if you can’t imagine yourself doing anything else."
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For Artists, M.F.A. or Ph.D.?
As the Ph.D. threatens to replace the M.F.A. as the requisite degree for arts professors, Daniel Grant explores the pros and cons.
Opinion
Defining Terms
To do an alt-ac search, you need to know the possibilities that are out there, write Brenda Bethman and Shaun Longstreet.
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Using LinkedIn
Kevin Grubb explains how to use the popular social media tool for administrative job development.