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Foreign Students and Tolerance - I

Chris R. Glass and Larry A. Braskamp write that colleges have responsibilities to prevent the racist incidents and isolation that have been reported recently.
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Prepare for Administration

Even if you are an academic and aspire to never leave the faculty ranks, you need to learn how to manage programs and projects, writes Nate Kreuter.
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Foreign Students and Tolerance - II

Colleges should confront the reality that many who enroll from abroad have ill-informed and racist attitudes about some minority groups, writes Zack Ritter.
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Friday Fragments

This piece on the implications for higher ed in the election is well worth a read. Among other things, it...
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Preparing for the Phone Interview

If you're on the academic job market this fall, chances are you will soon be facing the prospect of a phone interview. In my discipline, rhetoric and composition, phone interviews generally happen after a candidate has applied for a job and responded to a request for more materials from an interested program.
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Why I Support an Open Definition of DH

Big Tent DH is actually a good thing.
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Managing Your Time Effectively

We all have our tricks with time management. Some are effective and others have the appearance of helping you manage your time, but might just make you think that you're organized. I don't have any easy answers, but I will share how I manage my time effectively. I first have to thank a colleague for insisting that I establish boundaries for getting work done. About four years ago, Dr. Matt James politely encouraged me to shut my door.
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Math Geek Mom: Empty Sets

When I was a child, a new way of teaching math was introduced and soon became popular. Often called the “new math”, this approach to math included an attempt to build up all of math from the concepts of “set theory.” Indeed, in those days, every math class began with a chapter on “sets.”