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Coping With the Challenge of Constant Change
How can make our work each day effective, Jaynie C. Mitchell asks, when we aren’t sure how the end of that day will shift our journey from where we started?
How Best to Use AI in Job Searches
Ketan Marballi describes how to make the most of technology like ChatGPT and applicant tracking systems without losing your own voice in your application documents.
Indecision About AI in Classes Is So Last Week
Professors and administrators from five major public universities provide advice on how to get moving ahead with AI in the classroom right now.
Reconfiguring the Ph.D.
William Acree describes his university’s attempt to introduce a new, highly transdisciplinary cohort model for incoming graduate students.
Transforming Challenged Academic Units
When a unit becomes dysfunctional, leaders may recognize the problem but not know where to begin to resolve it, write Jacob J. Ryder, C. K. Gunsalus, Elizabeth A. Luckman and Nicholas C. Burbules, who offer specific approaches that can help.
Partnering to Train Ph.D.s to Teach
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Nicholas Papas describe the powerful synergy that can occur between scholarship-oriented students at universities and community college faculty with practical teaching experience.
The Need for Federal Support of STEM Training
Congress should fund professional development for grad students and postdocs to enhance our nation’s global competitiveness, and university administrators should advocate for such legislative appropriations, writes Adriana Bankston.
Who Is a Faculty Peer?
Breda Eubank, Irene Shankar and Mary-Lee Mulholland explore the potential bias in so-called peer evaluations of teaching.