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Ms. Mentor
Many a graduate student hopes to get a good teaching job without publishing, but the academic market is not the place for such childish fantasies.
(3/15/2006)
First Person
When every weekend brings another round of departmental socializing, what's a quiet untenured person to do?
(3/14/2006)
Moving Up
Succession planning is all the rage in the corporate sector; so why not in higher education?
(3/13/2006)
Catalyst
Here's a guide for new scientists who aren't sure how to begin seeking grants.
(3/10/2006)
First Person
Does losing my tenure case mean I chose the wrong career?
(3/9/2006)
First Person
What's it like to spend a Saturday waiting to hear whether your colleagues want you to stick around?
(3/8/2006)
First Person
For an academic job candidate, being superstitious goes hand in hand with being on the market.
(3/7/2006)
First Person
Twenty years after a student's suicide, his death continues to affect a professor's teaching.
(3/6/2006)
First Person
A job candidate admits that he was smart in an interview when pleasant might have served him better.
(3/3/2006)
First Person
For a postdoc in biology, the one part of the campus interview that fills her with terror is mealtime with her potential colleagues.
(3/2/2006)
First Person
A college marketing director would be a lot more excited about finding her dream job if only it would come looking for her.
(3/1/2006)
First Person
A tenured professor who quit her job and boxed up 25 years of her faculty life wonders how to begin the purge.
(2/28/2006)
The Fund Raiser
Part of any development officer's job is teaching a college's alumni and friends the habit of giving.
(2/27/2006)
First Person
An assistant professor tells how she learned to stop worrying and give lots of A’s.
(2/24/2006)
First Person
A Ph.D. applying for academic and nonacademic jobs finds that both types of employers want her to just choose a side already.
(2/23/2006)
First Person
An economics Ph.D. seeks to conquer his stress about the job market the only way he knows how.
(2/22/2006)
Heads Up
Faculty members are all too willing to adopt an "us versus them" attitude toward administrators but it's never that simple.
(2/21/2006)
First Person
A dissertation shows your potential as a scholar; it shouldn't simply be a long footnote to your mentor's glorious career.
(2/20/2006)
The Two-Year Track
The odds are against candidates who are unfamiliar with our values and don't speak our lingo.
(2/17/2006)
First Person
You don't ask for a yearlong leave to do some ordinary piece of work, but to produce the "big one." It seemed feasible at the start.
(2/16/2006)
First Person
What is the best way to respond to a interviewer who says, "I don't see the scholarly value of your work. Care to comment?"
(2/15/2006)
Balancing Act
If male academics don't have to choose between their personal and professional goals, an assistant professor wonders, why should she?
(2/14/2006)
An Academic in America
It's time for professors to abandon the genteel pose of being aloof from the sordid marketplace.
(2/13/2006)
Moving Up
No question is more likely to trip up administrative job candidates than the one about why they want the job.
(2/10/2006)
Career Talk
For Ph.D.'s who can't find, or don't want, a teaching job, but would like a career on a campus, what are the options?
(2/9/2006)
First Person
A junior scholar reconsiders the advice he got from senior professors on how to win tenure.
(2/8/2006)
First Person
Determined not to be left behind, a faculty member decides to become IM buddies with her students.
(2/7/2006)
Ms. Mentor
Eager scholars could spend years reading up on how hard it is to have a romance in academe, without ever emerging to see if it's true.
(2/6/2006)
Moving Up
A lawyer who specializes in presidential contracts looks at the compensation awarded to 25 university presidents who are leading billion-dollar campaigns.
(2/3/2006)
Moving Up
What the presidents earn at the 25 universities involved in billion-dollar campaign initiatives.
(2/3/2006)
First Person
For rhinos, the answer to alienation and anxiety is food. Ph.D.'s on the academic job market are less fortunate.
(2/2/2006)
First Person
What, exactly, is a professor to do when confronted by a student with psychological problems?
(2/1/2006)
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