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Opinion

Looking Good on Paper Won’t Cut It in Job Searches Anymore

If it ever did. Graduate students and postdocs should lean into their human skills in order to achieve their long-term career goals.

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Opinion

Leading From the Middle

The human-centered work of department chairs is critically important—and exactly the kind of work our culture does not tend to value.

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Opinion

10 Lessons From an Office of Public Scholarship, 3 Years In

How can institutions better support scholars wanting to do public-facing work?

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Opinion

Cancer Took My Parents—and Showed Me How to Teach

Grief transformed my classroom into a space where students learn professional skills by serving organizations that fight the disease that devastated my family.

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Opinion

We Know the Ph.D. Job Market Is Broken

Do we know what could help?

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Opinion

Faculty Are Bringing Corporate Culture Into the Classroom

It’s not helping their students.

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Opinion

Want an Evidence-Based Way to Motivate Your Students? Try Specs Grading

Nine out of 10 faculty who switched to a specifications grading system reported it resulted in higher-quality student work.