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Teaching Behind Enemy Lines
Susan Shaw offers advice for colleagues working in states where legislators are questioning progressive teaching and academic freedom.
The Virtues of Being a Selfish Teacher-Scholar
We’re pulled in many different directions and supposed to be jacks-of-all-trades, writes Anthony Barnhart, but that expectation is unreasonable.
Do Academic Sabbaticals Offer Space to Rest?
Hanna Tervanotko explores questions about the purpose of a sabbatical today, such as whether it should primarily serve the individual or the institution.
How to Support Innovative Work in the Humanities
Stephanie Kirk and Christopher Schaberg share nine ways senior faculty can help shift institutional cultures and make leading-edge scholarship more valued.
Advice on Selecting Service Opportunities
Steve Baule describes some service options that might be available to new faculty members and provides advice on those they may want to consider.
Academic Hybrid Positions and the F Word
As administrative scholars become more prominent across campuses, who should be considered capital-F Faculty, Chelsea Brislin asks, and what opportunities should be extended to them?
Increasing Women’s Representation in STEM Fields
Leaders in academe hold several keys to correct the well-documented tendency to undervalue women’s work, writes Nina Gray.
Helping Faculty Increase Their Research Impact
Publicly sharing research with future readers and collaborators can significantly increase publication and presentation opportunities, writes Christine Tulley.