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Career Advice Teaching

Decentering Myself

For international teaching assistants feeling undue pressure to create the perfect classroom dynamic, Deborah Saki offers some advice.

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Career Advice Advancing in the Faculty

How and Why You Should Build a Style Sheet

For authors in the humanities and social sciences, creating a style sheet can strengthen your text and offer insight into the values shaping your choices, Tess C. Rankin writes.

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Opinion
Career Advice Carpe Careers

5 Strategies for Strengthening Academic Administrator–Faculty Partnerships

Mabel Perez-Oquendo offers advice for building strong collaborations for student and trainee success.

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Opinion
Career Advice Conditionally Accepted

Behind the Scenes in DEI: The Fights Within

Tait D. Brooks writes that internal conflicts and biases undermine the potential of DEI programs to drive transformative institutional change.

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Opinion
Career Advice

Imagining More Sustainable Higher Ed Careers

Genia M. Bettencourt, Lauren N. Irwin and Rosemary J. Perez offer strategies for achieving more sustainable careers even as they call for a deeper reimagining of roles.

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Career Advice Carpe Careers

Go Ahead—Allow Yourself to Reflect

Taking the time to reflect while in the middle of a job search can lead to better career decisions, Lauren Easterling writes.

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Career Advice Teaching

Why I Invited AI to Dinner

Asking students to converse with chat bots can help them see academic inquiry as a conversation, Michael Millner writes.

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Opinion
Career Advice

Academic Assistants, Unite!

Academic assistants can better support one another—and their institutions—when they connect, members of the Connecticut College Faculty Administrative Support Team write.