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Advocate for Languages
Executive director of the MLA discusses mentors, career paths, learning from disappointments and the challenges facing higher education.
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Stand Up for Yourself
Maria Shine Stewart examines what comedy class can teach instructors about what they do in their own classrooms.
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Thinking About Skills
To advance in student affairs, it's important to focus on issues beyond job titles, writes Owen Sutkowski.
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The Gossip Scene
New academics need information, official and otherwise, writes Barbara Pinckus, but there can be costs for gathering and sharing it.
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Making Interdisciplinarity Possible
To make joint faculty appointments work, colleges should use memorandums of understanding to clearly define expectations, write Elizabeth H. Simmons and Michael P. Nelson.
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Think Like a Colleague
To succeed in job interviews, especially during the economic downturn, grad students need to shift mindsets, write Cheryl Reed and Dawn M. Formo.
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Presidential Transitions
Patrick Sanaghan offers advice for incoming leaders, departing leaders and board members.
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The Very Rough Art of Listening
Listen up, all you listless listeners: you may want to amplify your attending skills as a new academic year approaches. Maria Shine Stewart suggests why.