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Tea and Sympathy
While it’s usually not mentioned in job descriptions or part of any formal training, a major part of the unofficial duties of faculty members involves helping students deal with personal challenges, writes Angela B. Fulk.
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Help Is Right at Hand
Never again after graduate school will you have access to so many free, high-quality career development services, writes Melissa Dalgleish, who advises how to make the most of what your campus offers.
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'Playing The Game' for Black Grad Students
Eric Joy Denise shares advice and insights for new and prospective students.
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Birthing Both a Baby and Ph.D. as a Woman of Color
Dealing with both pregnancy and a Ph.D. were challenge enough, writes Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, without the unexpected additional burdens that she faced.
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Writing an Effective Abstract: An Audience-Based Approach
A bad abstract won’t by itself cause journal editors to reject a scholarly article, but it does incline them toward an initial negative answer, write Faye Halpern and James Phelan.
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Why We Must Support Sabbaticals
A sabbatical is a privilege that everyone should defend and seek out, not something to be eliminated where it still exists, argues Christopher Schaberg.
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Talking Trump in the Classroom
In today's political environment, how can professors challenge students to make sense of a changing world without imposing their own value-based judgments on classroom discussions? Jo-Ellen Pozner suggests some approaches.
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Your Ph.D. Experience Is Great Work Experience -- Part I
Contrary to popular and judgmental opinion, your doctoral experience is some of the best real-world working experience you can get, writes Briana Mohan.