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Offering Teaching Postdocs Can Save the Humanities!
They can be a high-impact way to address and enhance the job prospects of new Ph.D.s in an increasingly dire academic job market, writes Melissa Ianetta.
5 Challenges of Navigating a Lifetime Alt-Ac Career
Thinking about working until 2035 as an alternative academic.
Friday Fragments
Responses on dead scholarships, a search for a grant, an open-ended question and Parents’ Weekend.
Our Own Devices
Scott McLemee surveys new university press titles on information technology and digital media, covering topics ranging from technology in policing to online felines.
The Tenure Two-Step
Paul J. Croft shares some underlying laws that govern the tenure process and how to make that process work best for you.
Creating a Culture of College Persistence
Career development offices can work differently and better to support first-generation and other disadvantaged students, writes Brittany Wampler.
Debating ‘What Universities Owe Democracy’
An exceptionally well-timed and compellingly argued book from the president of Johns Hopkins University.
How Blacks Shaped Every Facet of American Culture
David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders is a book we have greatly needed.