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10 Strategies for Navigating Academic Careers
Aimee LaPointe Terosky explores some common themes among educators who have navigated and shaped their careers in meaningful ways.
Lies and Other Advice
Alfreda James shares insights for any new or soon-to-be Ph.D. interested in the day-to-day life of a career education professional.
Truths To Be Told: Entering Graduate School
Terri E. Givens describes the joys and satisfactions of her first year of graduate school.
Key Factors in Successful Student Mentoring
Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist recommend effective practices that individual faculty members, as well as institutions and departments, can adopt.
Stop Calling It the Dark Side
We need to stop emphasizing the things that divide the administration from the faculty and vice versa, argues Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt.
Conversations in the Global Classroom
Which histories matter? Which literatures? Who gets to decide? These questions are particularly complex with an international student body, writes Deborah L. Williams
You Need an Exit Plan
As you embark on your next career steps, how do you manage a graceful and less stressful departure from your current job? Michael A. Matrone provides advice.
An Inconvenient Adjunct
Barnard English instructor of 17 years, who helped bring a union to campus, no longer has a job there, and she blames the contract for allowing it.