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Leveraging Your Annual Evaluation
In the first of a two-part series on yearly reviews, Elizabeth Simmons suggests how faculty members can frame their self-evaluative essays in ways that help them and their institutions.
Building the Pool
Efforts to diversify faculties will work only if diverse candidates are under consideration, write Armando Bengochea and Roger Brooks. They offer ideas on how to make that likely.
The 'Be Yourself' Myth
To get hired, you need to master the six elements of a professional persona, writes Karen Kelsky.
Beating Campus Doldrums
Stock up on kindness to confront perils of winter, Maria Shine Stewart suggests.
Professor vs. Zombies
Nate Kreuter reflects on what he learned playing an all-campus game in which he was the only faculty member.
Failing the French Test
Graduate programs in foreign languages need to stop letting their grad students go on the job market without sufficient fluency, writes Stephen Brockmann.
The New Research University Chief(s)
The biggest and best of the institutions will go global, while others will need to narrow their focus -- and those paths will require different sorts of leaders, Emily Miller and Richard Skinner argue.
Did I Say That Out Loud?
Cheryl Reed and Dawn M. Formo offer advice on how to prepare for Skype and telephone interviews.