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Have a Contingency Plan
Nate Kreuter questions the conventional wisdom of telling would-be graduate students who want to be professors to enroll only "if you can’t imagine yourself doing anything else."
For Artists, M.F.A. or Ph.D.?
As the Ph.D. threatens to replace the M.F.A. as the requisite degree for arts professors, Daniel Grant explores the pros and cons.
Defining Terms
To do an alt-ac search, you need to know the possibilities that are out there, write Brenda Bethman and Shaun Longstreet.
Recruiting Talent in Higher Ed
Nathan O. Hatch offers 10 maxims for successful searches.
Using LinkedIn
Kevin Grubb explains how to use the popular social media tool for administrative job development.
Owning Our Mistakes
Nate Kreuter writes that the best thing you can do when you mess up is to admit it and ask for help.
'Gray'-cious Conclusion to a Career
Whether senior professors have a vibrant end to the later stages of their academic careers is largely in their own hands. Roger Baldwin and Michael Zeig offer guidance for how they can do so.
The Potential of Late-Career Professors
Senior faculty members are one of higher education's overlooked assets -- one that colleges and universities can no longer afford to underappreciate, write Roger Baldwin and Michael Zeig.