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P&T Confidential
A blueprint for rescuing your academic career from the ashes of tenure denial.
Career Talk
Our experts evaluate the CV's of three faculty-job candidates and an administrator seeking to move up.
Heads Up
The ability to communicate negative information without alienating your audience has become an essential administrative skill.
First Person
The not-quite-mutual decision of college and scholar to part ways can sour you on the prospect of finding the perfect academic "fit."
First Person
Here's a guide for entry-level administrators as they embark on careers in higher education.
On Course
A self-published book on teaching is the surprising source of some valuable insights on the college classroom.
Heads Up
Will you be held accountable for requiring students to participate in a virtual world if they become the target of online harassers?
First Person
In his first years in office, a new president learns to expect the unexpected.
Beyond the Ivory Tower
When his vision of finding a job at a big research university faded, a Ph.D. in ecology took the less traditional path.
Ms. Mentor
There are ways to dress in academe, Ms. Mentor cautions, and every fashion choice does send a message.
Page Proof
Too many books by academics are nothing more than data dumps.
First Person
On the continuum from purist to profligate, where do most academics fall when it comes to selling desk copies?
First Person
Exactly what kind of work are faculty members doing when no one's watching?
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On Hiring
The job market for lawyers may be heading the way of the academic job market in the humanities
Protests broke out at Stanford U. over the appointment of Donald H. Rumsfeld as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution
Read a special report on how colleges are working to diversify their faculties and staffs.
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