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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

Presidential Transitions: Navigating the Twilight

Patrick Sanaghan and Dorothy Escribano offer advice on ending a presidency well.

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Career Advice

5 Science-Backed Ways to Improve Academic Writing

There’s a science behind writing clearer sentences, Yellowlees Douglas writes.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

Why Administrators Fail

Joe P. Dunn offers some best practices gleaned from a more than 50-year faculty tenure.

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Career Advice Teaching

It’s Not Them: It’s You

Rather than fixating on students’ supposed deficiencies, professors should recommit to core principles for learning, Erin Morris Miller writes.

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Opinion
Career Advice Carpe Careers

A Primer on Commercialization Postdocs

A commercialization postdoc program might be exactly what you need to launch your career, Chris Smith and Tomer Joshua write.

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Career Advice

4 Questions and 5 Tips for Transitioning to Independent School Teaching

As this particular alt-ac pipeline grows more crowded, Tony Lilly offers advice for how Ph.D. holders can succeed—and insights into why some fail.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

So You Want to Be a Disrupter

Jeffrey Herbst offers advice for how college leaders can prepare themselves for bruising battles over controversial changes in institutional direction.

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Career Advice Carpe Careers

The Power of Reflection and Intentionality

Reflection is a critical career-planning skill to cultivate while in graduate school and beyond, Lauren Lyon and Amruta Inamdar write.