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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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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.

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Scholarship Thrives on Peripheral Vision

Don’t be limited by what’s straight ahead, David Labaree writes.

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Beyond the Research-Teaching Divide: Practical Steps for Educators

Sam Illingworth suggests five low-lift strategies for integrating research into teaching.

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Cultivating a Postdoc Community

Elizabeth Eikmann and Paola Cépeda suggest practical initiatives to build postdocs’ sense of community and belonging.

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Why Academics Need to Slow Down

Slowing down is key to more meaningful, intentional teaching and scholarship, Uddipana Goswami writes.

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Harnessing the Haters

Do your students think you’re a neo-Marxist feminist indoctrinator? Elisha Lim suggests some assignments intended to pull politically disaffected students back in.

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Grad School Doesn’t Stop for a Crisis

Jessica M. Vélez offers advice on supporting trainees and yourself when the world is on fire.