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Opinion

Getting the Mentoring You Need

Bill Mahoney and Jaye Sablan share advice on how grad students can shape working relationships with faculty in ways that help them feel supported and be successful.

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Opinion

Oh, Vandy

Vanderbilt’s criticism of the U.S. News ranking methodology is tone-deaf at best, Jim Jump writes.

Opinion

3 Questions for Clare Rawlins, Vice President, Kaplan’s International Pathways

A quick pulse check on the state of higher education globally.

The book cover for Marlena Williams's "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist."
Opinion

Exorcising ‘The Exorcist’

Scott McLemee reviews Marlena Williams’s Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist.

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Opinion

Invisible Labor and Emotional Currency

Jálin B. Johnson, Nakisha Castillo, Natalie V. Nagthall and Hawani Negussie describe the unseen impacts of higher ed’s cultural taxation on minoritized faculty and eight steps to help diminish those impacts.

Opinion

I’m Writing a Book

Looking at the labor underneath the product.

Opinion

New College Leadership Wants Spin, Not Truthful Communications

How its approach feeds misleading stereotypes and taints the profession.

Man holding a briefcase and reaching for a star stands atop a very tall stack of textbooks
Opinion

Revitalizing the Later Years in Academe

It’s a time when faculty can make new and different contributions than before, yet most institutions don’t approach the academic life cycle that way, writes Kenneth N. McKay.