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Friday Fragments
Students coming back, a giant stepping down and a query.
True Crime and Punishment
Scott McLemee reviews Mikita Brottman’s Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder.
A Disturbing Pattern
Inadequately citing or entirely omitting the scholarship of women and people of color reflects the larger problem of entrenched marginalization in the academy, write 12 women scholars.
Cross-Sector Collaboration to Improve Transfer in Texas
Within Texas’s complex higher education landscape, helping transfer students succeed requires alliances grounded in cross-sector relationships, data, and putting equity at the center of policy and practice.
Simple Rhetoric, Complicated Realities
What may be surprising is that the occupied regions of the West Bank and Gaza have become home to a vibrant, albeit struggling, network of postsecondary institutions, writes Michael Feuer.
Thoughts on Hiring
A philosophical question and a helpful tip.
A Crash Course in Career Development
Universities must do a better job helping Ph.D.s find their first nonfaculty job and obtain the skills they need to transition into a variety of meaningful, well-paying careers, writes Melissa Dalgleish.
Flawed Assumptions About Retirement Savings for Grad Students
Yes, grad students should save for retirement, but let's get the math right on how much they can earn from Roth IRAs.