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Tenure Candidates and Used Cars
Martin H. Krieger explains why deans trying to "sell" a tenure candidate to a president may be trusted as much as someone on a car lot.
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Digital Badges in the Classroom
The "badge" movement has grown mostly in the realm of noncredit work, but instructors at traditional colleges can use them to enhance teaching and learning, too, write Alan Reid and Denise Paster.
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How We Respond to Students
Instructors need to be careful to ensure that their comments encourage, writes Andrew Joseph Pegoda.
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Decoding Job Ads
What the notices say is only part of what they mean, writes Cheryl E. Ball.
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How I Spent Summer 'Vacation'
Academics need to explain to others what they do when they don't have teaching duties, writes Eszter Hargittai.
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Doing 'Cluster Hiring' Right
There are many advantages to the practice, writes Laura Severin, but it requires strategy and practices that go beyond hiring many professors at once.