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A Call for Flexible Name-Change Policies
A major concern for trans people today is the process of legally changing one’s name, as well as one’s gender marker, on official college records, writes Katriel Paige.
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What I Learned as a Creepy-Clown Expert
Many of us in academe might find that we have important expertise to share in surprising ways, writes Jason D. Seacat.
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Rethinking Professional Development
Humanities departments need to recognize today’s job market and change the tenure-or-bust attitude that’s still too prevalent on many campuses, writes Marcus Cederström.
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Making Office Hours Matter
Megan Condis explores why so few students take advantage of office hours and gives some tips on how to get more of them to do so.
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To Disclose or Not to Disclose?
When graduate students are searching for jobs, should they disclose any disabilities they may have? Sue Levine explores the question.
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Wanted: Disabled Faculty Members
For many disabled scholars, the choices they face when negotiating job market accommodations are deeply complex, fraught and risky, argue Jay Dolmage and Stephanie Kerschbaum.
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Unlikable
Without that extra push of likability, and often without senior scholars like us who can mentor us along the way, we have to work harder and smarter to succeed in academe, writes Shannon Craigo-Snell.
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Put Me In, Coach
Laura Beard offers nine lessons those who work in higher education can learn from baseball.