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Let’s Reclaim Summer Break
After a year pretty much like no other, it’s time for most of us to finally pause, close our laptops and turn off our notifications -- even for just a day, Rebecca Vidra urges.
Rhetoric vs. Reality
In candid moments, even women presidents, provosts and other senior leaders discuss the gender bias they still confront in higher education, Melanie Ho writes.
5 Things We Must Do Better When This Thing Is Over
Matthew Wright offers suggestions for fellow Zoomed-out faculty instructors.
Dropout Professors
While the chances of a high-school dropout becoming a professor remain low, Gretchen Soderlund shares lesson from a few, including herself, who made the grade.
Developing Your Thought Leadership for Any Career
Nana Lee provides guidance to graduate students on how to answer the common question “Should I consider academe or industry?”
Do the Work
Jia Zheng and Jalah Townsend share some key strategies to help higher education institutions retain faculty who are Black, Indigenous and women of color.
Coping With Postdefense Depression
No one ever warns you that, once you come down from your champagne-soaked high, the fact that it's actually all over will hit you like a ton of bricks, warns Angel M. Jones.
In-Class Career Discernment
Alison Clark Efford describes the value of setting aside time in each class with her graduate students to discuss the humanities, careers and the good life.