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Departmental Gatekeepers of Faculty Success
Ensuring that individuals in a unit are successful while also maintaining its stature can impact chairs’ decisions in ways that contribute to bias, write Kim Avrama Blackwell, Marjolein van der Meulen and Lori Setton.
Boycotts Cannot Become the New Normal
Ronald R. Krebs argues that the new AAUP statement on academic boycotts undermines scholarly values and opens the door to further politicization of the academy.
3 Questions for Joel Podolny
A conversation with the CEO and co-founder of Honor Education and founding dean of Apple University.
Applying Lessons From K-12 Education to Today’s College Campuses
What an 87-year-old historian of education can teach today’s higher ed professionals.
A Career Option Humanities Ph.D.s Should Consider
Jobs in career advising for grad students call on the natural skills of such Ph.D.s and are both fulfilling and in demand, writes Yoonha Shin.
Stop With the Rural-Bashing on Campuses
Faculty should avoid the Trump-country trap this election season, Lisa R. Pruitt and Emelie K. Peine write.
The Transformative Power of Literature
The cognitive, emotional and ethical impact of deep reading.
How to Give Up Tenure—Twice—and Thrive
Regardless of our fears and challenges, Heather Braun writes, we all can take actions, however small, that will over time lead to bigger and more lasting changes.