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Dealing With Pauses in Research Productivity
Many faculty members remain uncertain about how parental leave and other gaps should be treated professionally, write Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra, who provide some advice for both job seekers and institutions.
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Highest Education
Our country must appreciate the value of postdoctoral education and do more to ensure that it flourishes, writes David Silbersweig.
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Socializing Academia
Sick of relying on commercial platforms for academic sharing? Humanities Commons, SocArXiv, and the Center for Open Science to the rescue!
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Ask the Ethicist, Faculty Edition
If we as faculty members can’t be honest among ourselves, Steven Conn asks, will we be surprised if our professional autonomy gets taken away by administrators or boards of trustees or state legislators?
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Consuming Catastrophe
In a new book, Timothy Recuber explores how the media cover disasters like the Virginia Tech shootings -- but sometimes in problematic ways, writes Scott McLemee.