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3 Budget-Free Ways to Support Faculty
Michelle Pautz, Jessica Dewey and Martha Diede describe what faculty members have said is most frustrating about their jobs and how administrators can better support them in small yet impactful ways.
A Title Does Not a Leader Make
A key question underlying the myriad challenges higher ed faces is whether we have people equipped to lead our institutions through those challenges, Vicki L. Baker writes.
The Soft-Pants Effect
Monica Chrambach Kucich and Jenny Weil Malatras explore why our students are struggling and often disengaged—and then offer some advice on how we can help.
Levels of Accuracy
As an academic, you are sometimes, maybe, kinda allowed to write simple declarative sentences, writes Rachel Toor.
We Can Say the Word ‘Fat’
Most of us in academe would rather ignore the needs of marginalized people than recognize antifat biases, but we must do better, writes Kallie Menard.
Taking Umbridge With Associate Deans
Richard Utz explores how and why such academic administrators are parodied on Twitter.
Creating Classroom Community Agreements
They provide the best way to cultivate critically compassionate learning communities, writes Jesica Siham Fernández.
Increasing Women’s Representation in STEM Fields
Leaders in academe hold several keys to correct the well-documented tendency to undervalue women’s work, writes Nina Gray.