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Career Advice

Advice to a Friend on Becoming an Adjunct

Melissa Olson-Petrie pens an epistle for all those now or henceforth laboring in steerage.

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Career Advice Teaching

‘D’s Get the Degrees’: Shifting the Mindset of Underachiever Students

Having underachievers in class can be frustrating, but these students can be guided into becoming high achievers, writes Yalinu Poya, an assistant professor.

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Opinion
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‘What’s Going to Happen to Science?’

The U.S. university-federal partnership is a miracle for global scientific progress. It must be protected, Mary Sue Coleman writes.

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Career Advice Carpe Careers

Behold: The Administrative Postdoc

Administrative postdoc positions offer advantages for Ph.D.s looking to transition into a range of career paths, Alex Yen and Anne-Charlotte Mecklenburg write.

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Opinion
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Providing More Transparent College Pricing

Prospective students need better pricing information earlier in their college search process, Phillip Levine writes.

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The Big Chill

The federal funding freeze highlights the outsize role academic medical centers play in shaping their institutions, John R. Thelin and Neal H. Hutchens write.

Columns Beyond Transfer

A Failure of Implementation

Why higher education must take control of AI training.

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Career Advice Seeking a Faculty Job

The Ivy Advantage

Adam Szetela asks why Ivy League Ph.D. students like him should have an advantage on the academic job market.