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Trading the Tenure Track for Tech
Chandra Y. Osborn explains why she walked away from a position at a prestigious university to join a tech start-up -- and what she learned about academic research along the way.
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Family-Friendly Conferences
Few institutions and associations have considered the particular hurdles conference participation presents for women scholars with children, argue Angela L. Bos, Jennie Sweet-Cushman and Monica Schneider.
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Let’s Stop Normalizing Student Debt
Why do academics accept and perpetuate the idea, asks Jessica Estep, that financial ruin should be the norm for humanities Ph.D.s?
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Best Practices for Professional Email
Natalie Lundsteen offers some basic tips to help you have clear and confident electronic communication.
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My Journey With Department Service
A Ph.D. candidate describes the costs of doing service as a graduate student of color.
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Midlife Ph.D. Programs and Minority Students
How do students evaluate the return on investment of pursuing a doctoral degree later in life? Gary A. Berg provides some answers.
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Student (In)Civility in the Age of Trump
Pam Whitfield offers suggestions for faculty members about how to manage student behavior and keep students safe at a time of growing contention.
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Helping Students See the Connections
We should help students make sense of not only the subject matter of our particular class but also how all their curricular and co-curricular activities fit together, writes Laura L. Behling.