HEADS UP What Conspiracy? Faculty members are all too willing to adopt an "us versus them" attitude toward administrators but it's never that simple. MOVING UP Billion-Dollar Presidents A lawyer who specializes in presidential contracts looks at the compensation awarded to 25 university presidents who are leading billion-dollar campaigns. THE FUND RAISER Playing Philanthropist A development officer gets a chance to see what it feels like to be the one doing the giving. MOVING UP Quo Vadis? No question is more likely to trip up administrative job candidates than the one about why they want the job. A PRESIDENT'S FIRST YEAR The President's Mouth You'd better like to talk if you want to lead a college because the job is sort of like managing a sustained manic fit. FIRST PERSON Happily Exhausted Every once in a while, a new president wonders, What would it hurt to miss that next event, to leave early, to not even make the trip? FIRST PERSON A Perfect Faux Finalist It wasn't any fatal mistake you made that cost you the position; you never had a chance to begin with. THE FUND RAISER Why I Write A development officer believes his work is a form of creative expression, just not his own. BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER Lessons for the Academic Introvert A former vice president begins his search for a nonacademic job and finds himself less than prepared. FIRST PERSON Should I Apply? A college marketing director mulls whether to take the next step and seek a vice presidency. THE FUND RAISER A Presidential Predicament An advancement career suddenly seems to be the perfect springboard to a college presidency. MOVING UP The Age of Reason Faculty members are finally starting to understand that someone who looks like them is not the best candidate for today's top administrative jobs. A PRESIDENT'S FIRST YEAR Pacing Myself For a new president, half the battle is learning when to move fast and when to take it slow. THE FUND RAISER Skimming the Volunteer Pool Recruiting volunteers, often in the form of new board members, is a key part of what development officers do. MOVING UP The Divide An almost unbridgeable, us-versus-them gulf between professors and administrators drives one vice president to give up trying. CAREER TALK Career Counseling for Ph.D.'s A look at how universities and departments can get started providing career services to graduate students. HEADS UP Interim and Untenured An assistant professor who used to wonder what his department chairman did all day finds out the hard way. THE FUND RAISER Picking the Panel A newly hired foundation director prepares to invoke that fundamental force of nature known as the search committee. FIRST PERSON Reasons for Leaving With her bosses retiring or quitting, a college marketing director decides it's time to look for a new job. MOVING UP Crossing Over to the Dark Side Considering a career in academic administration? Here's what you need to think about. FIRST PERSON Taking Office The new president of Drew University begins a chronicle of his first year on the job. THE FUND RAISER Meet the New Boss Sometimes you've got to move out, a development officer finds, in order to move up in the administrative ranks. FIRST PERSON Just Stay No In administration, moving up the ladder means relocating -- a lot. But one admissions director discovers she has made one move too many. MOVING UP Working With Trustees A vice president talks to his fellow administrators about what they want from their governing boards -- and what they don't want. THE FUND RAISER The Reluctant Road Warrior Expecting a job offer, a development officer instead gets a rejection letter. What went wrong? CAREER TALK The CV Doctor Returns Our experts evaluate the CV's of three faculty-job candidates and two administrators seeking to move up. FIRST PERSON Downplaying my Doctorate An administrator learns that having a Ph.D. is not an advantage when your supervisor doesn't have one. THE FUND RAISER Three Months on the Market A development officer reaffirms the simple truth that some colleges know how to treat candidates and some don't. THE TWO-YEAR TRACK Letters From Jail Sometimes declining a student's request is the right thing to do -- for the administrator, the institution, and the student. MOVING UP When Candidates Misbehave Sometimes it's not the hiring committee that messes up the search -- it's the applicant. THE FUND RAISER A Cure for the Summertime Blues A development officer wants to make June, July, and August the three best things about being a fund raiser too. FIRST PERSON Making Some Bad Reads A vice president looking to make a career change encounters stiff resistance at the office and on the home front. THE FUND RAISER A Good Talk Spoiled Strong development officers need strong people skills, but they also need to know their way around a golf course. MOVING UP When and How to Leave a Presidency The last gift a thoughtful president gives to an institution is a graceful exit. HEADS UP Managing From the Middle "Midlevel Administrators Collaborate!" doesn't have quite the zing of most inspiring slogans. But it works. ALL IN THE GAME Where Have You Gone, Stanley Fish? Is the desire to retire from the fray stronger than the desire to prevail in it? THE TWO-YEAR TRACK Getting Into Administration The paperwork, stress, and tedium may dissuade you from administrative work, but the money isn't the only reason you should reconsider. THE FUND RAISER A Hypocritical Oath They spend their days urging donors to give, but do advancement professionals contribute to their own alma maters? MOVING UP Bad Behavior in a Search The opportunities to make a mess of the hiring process are abundant for search committees. FIRST PERSON Southern Inhospitality Did the members of a search committee for a dean's position not know how to treat candidates? Were they incompetent or just rude? FIRST PERSON Class Notes More than ever, faculty members are being recruited to raise money for their departments. ALL IN THE GAME On Balance The only thing you get when you enforce a political balance in hiring, teaching, or campus life, says Stanley Fish, is a politicized university. THE FUND RAISER Death of a Fund Raiser When a colleague feels like the development world's version of Willy Loman, all the usual career advice seems to fall flat. FIRST PERSON Paying the Price The chancellor of a Wisconsin campus offers a primer on handling controversy -- in this case, a speech by Ward Churchill. FIRST PERSON We Can't Handle the Truth Am I trying to induce honest philanthropists to divert their money to a mediocre cause? A grant writer at a small liberal-arts university wonders. MOVING UP Firing the President The price of the generous compensation being offered to new presidents is tougher governing boards. HEADS UP The Limits of Tenure A department chairwoman battles it out with a combative staff member and loses -- not her tenured job, just her reputation. THE FUND RAISER Defending My Profession A campus development officer writes an open letter to Andy Rooney. ALL IN THE GAME Clueless in Academe The controversy over Larry Summers's remarks is not about any particular issue, says Stanley Fish. It's about someone falling down on the job. HEADS UP The Fourth Factor for Hiring Research, teaching, and service are the big three, but there's one more criterion that interviewers need to evaluate -- attitude. MOVING UP Courting Elusive Candidates A search consultant offers tips on how hiring committees can find and attract good prospects. BALANCING ACT Are Your Parental-Leave Policies Legal? Many institutions' aren't, says a law professor, but a best-practices model is now available that is worth adopting. ALL IN THE GAME Who's In Charge Here? For Stanley Fish, the evaluation of teaching by students amounts to a whole lot of machinery with a very small and dubious yield. THE FUND RAISER Wasting Money A failed fund-raising trip makes a development officer rethink how he spends his college's money. FIRST PERSON Suddenly Location Matters In her quest for a deanship, an administrator initially was prepared to move anywhere. A family crisis has changed that. HEADS UP Drifting Away from Research When academics move into administration or association work, at some point they have to set aside their scholarship. FIRST PERSON Not Searching for Skeletons External reviews of departments and programs are a fact of academic life. So why are the nuts and bolts of how to conduct such a review so little discussed? ALL IN THE GAME One University Under God? What will succeed high theory and race, gender, and class as the center of intellectual energy in academe? Religion, says Stanley Fish. THE FUND RAISER Friend Raising Advancement professionals may see fine distinctions between alumni relations and development, but we're all playing the same game. MOVING UP Interim and Internal Administrators who accept a temporary appointment and also apply for the permanent job can expect a rough ride. FIRST PERSON No Reply It's not just faculty job candidates who think hiring committees need a lesson on civility. ALL IN THE GAME What Did You Do All Day? Administrators work harder than faculty members, says Stanley Fish, and that's why they're paid more. HEADS UP The Drama Behind the Job Ad Savvy chairmen know that the days when certain faculty "lines" belonged to a department are over. THE FUND RAISER Anatomy of a Gift Development officers hear "no" much more often than "yes," but it's the yeses that keep them in the game. FIRST PERSON Administrative Trials and Errors A newly tenured professor chronicles his first week on the job as his department's director of graduate studies. MOVING UP Not the First Lady As a presidential spouse, you are considered ancillary but anything you do and say may come back to bite you. ALL IN THE GAME The Last Angry Man All deans who are any good at it are obsessive compulsives, says Stanley Fish. FIRST PERSON Making the Leap An assistant dean of continuing education goes on the market looking to move into academic administration. THE FUND RAISER Part Company It's easy for fund raisers at large universities to attract corporate dollars, but what if you work at a small, rural college? FIRST PERSON You're Fired! An associate vice president for academic affairs hears those words in his own reality show. MOVING UP Avoiding Trouble With the IRS Here's how trustees can keep their president's compensation from being challenged by tax auditors. ALL IN THE GAME Welcoming Remarks Delivering the opening comments at a meeting joins death and taxes on the list of things no administrator can avoid. THE FUND RAISER Rank and File How much sensitive information about donors should college fund raisers share with their trustees? MOVING UP Better Luck Next Time Unsuccessful in your last administrative job search? A search consultant suggests a few reasons why. FIRST PERSON On the Market The head of a large department decides she's ready to move up the ranks of academic administration. ALL IN THE GAME The Party's Over Stanley Fish's last day as dean was pretty much like any other: a little routine, a little drama, and a lot left hanging in the air. FIRST PERSON The End of the Line A former campus administrator comes to terms with her struggle to find the right position in college public relations. FIRST PERSON Broken Promises When an assistant vice president of student affairs asked for a raise, he found out just how much his university valued his field. FIRST PERSON Landing a Presidency A former president of a traditional college in Europe moves into a leadership role in for-profit education. THE FUND RAISER Not Making the Case A fund raiser's "case statement" about the need for a capital campaign gets ejected by the only audience that matters. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed chief executives at public colleges and universities. HEADS UP Getting Back in the Game For an associate professor, taking her turn as department head has meant seriously derailing her research career. FIRST PERSON A Comedy of Errors Is it too much to ask applicants to spell my name correctly, a vice president wonders? MOVING UP The Right Search Committee Taking the time to put together an effective panel is the first step toward a successful search. ALL IN THE GAME The Case for Academic Autonomy A prerequisite for academe's survival is distinctiveness. Without it, says Stanley Fish, we haven't got a prayer. FIRST PERSON The Grand Poobah New to the tenured ranks, an associate professor finds his career path rerouted by an administrative assignment. FIRST PERSON Just What the Doctor Ordered A veteran chairman offers a prescription for dealing with illness in a department. FIRST PERSON What Not to Do When You're the Boss Preparing to lead an academic program for the first time, an academic studied his former bosses for tips. THE FUND RAISER Certifiable A campus fund raiser talks to his counterparts about why they've become certified, or why they haven't. FIRST PERSON Mistaken Identity A black male Ph.D. and would-be administrator wonders why interviewers keep asking him whether he played sports. MOVING UP The Provost as Gatekeeper A former provost offers advice on managing the minefield that is the tenure process. ALL IN THE GAME Minimalism If brevity is advisable for politicians and actors, it is essential for college and university administrators. HEADS UP Straight Man An English professor learned a key lesson about being a chairman, not from any formal orientation, but from two academic novels. THE FUND RAISER Do I Need the Credential? A campus fund raiser mulls whether to seek formal certification in his field. MOVING UP Haunted by the Past, Part 2 How should administrative search committees handle negative comments from references? ALL IN THE GAME Letting Go Stanley Fish wonders, What do you do when you're on your way out? HEADS UP Around the Clock A former department chairman chronicles a typical day on the job. FIRST PERSON Please Don't Keep Me Informed By all means, says one administrative job candidate, spare me the details about how badly my application fared. THE FUND RAISER A Matter of Degrees Fund raisers aren't required to have a graduate degree, but if you want one, what's the best field? FIRST PERSON Sort of Hired A would-be dean lands a job but finds his life on hold while he awaits word on his tenure case. MOVING UP Haunted by the Past How should candidates for administrative jobs deal with negative comments from their references? SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed chief executives at public colleges and universities. ALL IN THE GAME Promises, Promises These days, says Stanley Fish, painstakingly negotiated appointment letters might just as well have been written in disappearing ink. FIRST PERSON Dear Would-Be Dean A member of a search committee for a new dean of arts and sciences offers a few words of advice to applicants. HEADS UP What Am I Worth? Setting faculty salaries is one of the trickiest tasks you'll face as a department head. THE FUND RAISER A Downhill Battle Part of the job is persuading donors to support the college's agenda, not just their own. ALL IN THE GAME Plus Ça Change The trouble with long-range planning, says Stanley Fish, is that it almost never works. FIRST PERSON The President's Spouse An administrator who is on the job market finds that her marriage to a college president keeps getting in the way of her advancement. HEADS UP Budget Lessons It gets to the point where there's nothing left to cut -- and then they ask for more. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed chief executives at public colleges and universities. THE FUND RAISER Balancing Fear and Greed If college fund raisers are supposed to be good with a dollar, then why do so many rarely think about their own finances? MOVING UP An Unhappy Interim Temporary appointees may claim that they don't want the permanent post, but what if they secretly do? FIRST PERSON On the Market Job ads may call for a collaborative leader, but a would-be dean finds that hiring committees seem to want a benevolent dictator. ALL IN THE GAME Make 'Em Cry In defending academe, campus administrators have been diplomatic, conciliatory, and reasonable. Stanley Fish says it's time to be blunt, aggressive, and just a bit arrogant. HEADS UP New Programs, New Problems For department heads, revising the curriculum is a lesson in human psychology. ACADEMIC ASSETS How to Prosper Your ability to make sound investment decisions at each stage of your campus career can influence how everything else turns out. THE FUND RAISER A Phantom Menace Why do so many campus marketing professionals view their counterparts in development with suspicion? ALL IN THE GAME Intellectual Diversity As a genuine academic value, intellectual diversity is a nonstarter. As an imposed imperative, it is a disaster. MOVING UP Finding Balance A search consultant talks to college presidents about how they juggle work and family. HEADS UP Intervening in the Classroom As a department head, you'll have to deal with complaints from students about mean teachers and complaints from teachers about rude students. THE FUND RAISER Thinking Ahead The importance of building an endowment seems obvious to fund raisers, but donors may be skeptical. FIRST PERSON Ho, Ho, Hum In two months, a would-be campus administrator goes from three job opportunities to none. MOVING UP The Perils of Provosting The role of chief academic officers has been marginalized, but they're still the ones who get things done. SPOTLIGHT My Next Move The president of a European college who is returning home to the States weighs his career options. HEADS UP Sharing Inside Information When should department heads keep faculty members in the dark, and when should they talk? THE FUND RAISER How (Not) to Treat Job Candidates The development community is relatively small. Do you really want your institution to gain a reputation for mistreating candidates? FIRST PERSON Information Overload A department chairman wonders: Is it just me, or is Caesar demanding more rendering unto? FIRST PERSON From Secretary to Administrator Typecast on one campus, a would-be administrator in student affairs finds a home elsewhere. MOVING UP Making the Team One of the best legacies that a president can leave his or her successor is a strong management team. ALL IN THE GAME The War on Higher Education How will academe's leaders respond to the assault under way on its autonomy and professional integrity? FIRST PERSON Adventures in Academic Affairs An assistant vice president in academic affairs begins his search for a deanship. HEADS UP Not What I Signed Up For Chaperoning job candidates, catering to donors, and other joys of a department chairmanship. THE FUND RAISER Praying for Pennants For campus fund raisers, organizing a special event can be thrilling, and thankless. MOVING UP Negotiating Your Contract How can newly appointed presidents get a good compensation package without appearing greedy? MOVING UP The Board's View For trustees, the challenge is setting the president's salary high enough to attract the best candidates, but not so high that it incites controversy. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed chief executives at public colleges and universities. ALL IN THE GAME Give Us Liberty ... Or give us revenue. Stanley Fish makes a case for privatizing public universities. SPOTLIGHT Cutting Back PR It's tough to land a job in campus public relations these days as candidates find fewer openings and more competition. HEADS UP Faculty Behaving Badly As a department head, you can rely on 98 percent of your faculty members to do their jobs and need minimal tending. Here's what to expect from the other 2 percent. THE FUND RAISER Not Enough Fun As development offices look increasingly corporate, have they taken the fun out of fund raising? MOVING UP Going It Alone Even though they might not use search consultants, hiring committees can employ their tactics. FIRST PERSON The Search for Oz An administrator in college public relations begins a diary of her job search. ALL IN THE GAME Grading Congress A recent Republican report on college tuition costs isn't worth the paper it's printed on, says Stanley Fish. CAREER TALK The CV Doctor Returns Our experts evaluate the vitas of four faculty-job candidates and an administrator seeking to move up. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed chief executives at public colleges and universities. THE FUND RAISER The Write Stuff Far too many development professionals have trouble writing a coherent sentence. HEADS UP Orientation Dennis Baron begins a monthly column on life as a department head. FIRST PERSON Goodbye Prague The president of a European university decides it's time to search for a new position back in the United States. MOVING UP Friends or Foes Whether college presidents have a good relationship with the news media depends, in large measure, on the president. ALL IN THE GAME Let Them Teach at Stanford When a public university hires "rock star professors," does it translate into any benefits for undergraduate education? Stanley Fish thinks so. SPOTLIGHT Careers in Student Housing To move up the ranks in student-housing offices, you've got to be willing to move around -- a lot. THE FUND RAISER Operating at the Margins If you're a campus fund raiser specializing in corporate and foundation relations, you'd better get used to being a sidekick. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed chief executives at public colleges and universities. FIRST PERSON Making Lemonade An administrator's search for a new job in marketing and public affairs comes up short. ALL IN THE GAME Hard Choices Making them may be a bad idea, writes Stanley Fish. And urging that they be made may mask the real agenda. SPOTLIGHT Nontraditional Ph.D.'s Can applicants with doctorates from distance-learning programs land tenure-track jobs in academe? THE FUND RAISER Choosing a Consultant Mark J. Drozdowski offers 10 questions for development staff members to ask in hiring an outside consultant. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed chief executives at public colleges and universities. MOVING UP Wrong Answers The administrative hiring process is filled with traps. Here are some to avoid. ALL IN THE GAME The Same Old Song It is only by remaining distinct -- by remaining narrow -- that an enterprise can ensure its survival and its utility. FIRST PERSON The Faculty Spouse Marry a college faculty member and you may find yourself married to the college as well. FIRST PERSON A Search Ends An associate dean fulfills his quest to move up the administrative ranks. THE FUND RAISER A Big Easy Conference When you're a fund raiser, professional-development conferences come with the territory. MOVING UP Gender Issues Why do problems of style and self-presentation seem to plague female candidates more than male ones? FIRST PERSON From Professor to Administrator Service to others is a low priority when you're ascending the faculty ranks, but it's what matters in an administrative search. ALL IN THE GAME The Free-Speech Follies Sure there are real free-speech issues on campus, says Stanley Fish. There just aren't that many. THE FUND RAISER The Once-Over Should advancement researchers, whose job it is to determine a donor's assets, be invited on a visit to the prospect? MOVING UP The President's Spouse It's time to move away from the outdated notion of "two for the price of one." SPOTLIGHT Scaling Back the Ceremony At public universities, now is not the time for lavish presidential inaugurations. ALL IN THE GAME Aim Low Democratic values and academic values are not the same, says Stanley Fish, and confusing the two can easily damage the quality of education. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. THE FUND RAISER Thinking Big In planning a capital campaign, the fund raiser's job is to keep people mindful of the big picture. MOVING UP Transition Time A new president arrives. Will the vice presidents keep their jobs? Will they even want to? ALL IN THE GAME The Means to an End Administrators are not paid to manage money, says Stanley Fish. They're paid to tend an educational enterprise. SPOTLIGHT Friend Raising State and federal budget woes have made it a tough time to be an administrator in government relations. FIRST PERSON Is Untenured Untenable? A newly appointed but untenured department chairwoman wonders if she will regret taking the job. FIRST PERSON On the Market An administrator looking to move up the career ladder in university relations finds too many applicants for too few jobs. THE FUND RAISER What's the Difference? Are "development" and "fund raising" the same thing? Mark J. Drozdowski offers a few distinctions. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. MOVING UP After the Presidency A college presidency is a 24/7 job. Once it's over, it's time to bask in the joys of a normal life. ALL IN THE GAME It's All Their Fault What do we need administrators for anyway? Stanley Fish knows the answer. SPOTLIGHT Managing Adjuncts What can department heads do to improve the plight of adjuncts, and are they doing enough? SPOTLIGHT Called to Serve Careers in campus chaplaincy can be emotionally draining, but chaplains say the work is more than just a job. FIRST PERSON Going Global Administrators looking to work in Europe will find plenty of opportunities in fund raising, but few in public relations. THE FUND RAISER It's Only Money Fund raisers are never nervous when it comes to talking about money, except when it's their own. MOVING UP Closing a College The former provost of the now-defunct Trinity College of Vermont describes what it was like to shut it down. ALL IN THE GAME Administration: The Musical In a time of shrinking budgets, Stanley Fish still has a song in his heart. FIRST PERSON Just Say Yes Job candidates aren't the only ones waiting nervously for the phone to ring. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. THE FUND RAISER Those Who Can, Teach Sample the art of imparting knowledge and you'll gain a deeper appreciation for the academic enterprise. FIRST PERSON On the Market An associate dean tries to ask the right questions in his search for a deanship. MOVING UP Passed Over Sometimes internal candidates have a lock on the job. But what happens when they aren't selected? MS. MENTOR A Sporting Chance Ms. Mentor reassures a presidential wannabe: You don't have to be a golfer to move up the ranks. ALL IN THE GAME Saving the World If you want to save the world as a university administrator, says Stanley Fish, do it on your own time. BALANCING ACT Which Half Is Yours? Excessive attention to who deserves the credit in collaborative ventures defeats the whole point. THE FUND RAISER Am I a Salesman? A college fund raiser wonders whether his work is akin to selling cars. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. MOVING UP Spin, Deception, and Lies Jean Dowdall looks at the most common deceptions by candidates and committees in the search process. FIRST PERSON Relocation Woes When middle managers go on the job market in academe, someone has to pay the plane fare. Why is it always the applicant? ALL IN THE GAME Let the Bad Times Roll Money has dried up, and so has Stanley Fish's schedule. ACADEMIC ASSETS Damage Control Your retirement accounts have taken a beating and you can't retire unless you have enough to live on. So, just how bad is it? THE FUND RAISER Happy to Stay Put? In the development field, the obsession with moving up the career ladder rules. But it doesn't have to, says Mark J. Drozdowski. MOVING UP You're Fired A lawyer who has worked for both presidents and trustees warns of the pitfalls that can lead the two to part ways. FIRST PERSON On the Market For an associate dean searching for a deanship, the mail usually brings a rejection and the telephone an interview. ALL IN THE GAME Discipline and Punish The general reluctance in academe to dismiss or even discipline a professor stems from class prejudice, says Stanley Fish. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. THE FUND RAISER Some Views on Interviews Mark J. Drozdowski offers tips on how to prepare for a job interview in fund raising and what you're likely to be asked. MOVING UP On Getting and Taking Advice Presidents get, and need, a lot of advice. Here's how to make sense of it all. SPOTLIGHT Careers in IR Jobs in institutional research can offer new career opportunities for the statistically minded. ALL IN THE GAME So You Want to Be a Dean? Stanley Fish analyzes the experience of failure on the administrative job market. FIRST PERSON Trial and Error A Ph.D. who tried out administrative work decides to go back on the market for a tenure-track job. FIRST PERSON The Accidental Administrator An administrator who came to her academic career late in life begins a diary of her search for a better job in public relations. CAREER TALK The CV Doctor Returns Our experts evaluate the CVs of three recent Ph.D.'s, a community-college instructor, and an administrator. SPOTLIGHT Turning Down a Promotion It means more money, more power, and a better office. So why do some academics still say no to a promotion? SPOTLIGHT The Search for CIO's More colleges are searching for chief information officers and finding a stronger pool of applicants. THE FUND RAISER Your New Fund-Raising Job Here's what you should hope to accomplish during your first semester in a new development job. SPOTLIGHT The Heir and the Spare A look at the tricky relationships between new presidents and former presidents who remain on campus. MOVING UP Converting Your Resume So you're ready to take on administrative duties? It's time to give your faculty CV a conversion. ALL IN THE GAME Somebody Back There Didn't Like Me Voting on a tenure case this year? Stanley Fish offers a few rules to help you make your decision for the right reasons. FIRST PERSON On the Market An associate dean begins a diary of his search for a deanship. THE FUND RAISER Who's Who in Development Wondering where you fit in the world of academic fund raising? Mark J. Drozdowski offers a taxonomy of the development species. MOVING UP Making an Unusual Move Sometimes a lateral career move, or even a downward one, can be the right move. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. ALL IN THE GAME The Golden Rule, Part 2 Stanley Fish explains why academics seem incapable of treating job candidates as fellow human beings. CAREER TALK Attention, Hiring Committees With a little foresight, a search committee can avoid unnecessary wear and tear on candidates. Here's how. SPOTLIGHT A Speedy Search At Ohio State, the presidential search committee finds a new leader in just four months. THE FUND RAISER Your First Development Job A primer on how to break into the field of university fund raising and development. SPOTLIGHT Serving on the Search Professors learn to look out for faculty interests when they sit on presidential search committees. MOVING UP Negotiating Extras A lawyer who negotiates presidential contracts says nonsalary benefits can get lost in the rush to sign an agreement. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. ALL IN THE GAME Reading the Morning Mail For Stanley Fish, answering the mail is a rehearsal for the work of the day. THE FUND RAISER Reviewing Candidates After 10 years of evaluating the résumés of fund raisers, Mark J. Drozdowski offers his take on what works. MOVING UP Off to a Good Start The first weeks and months of a new administrative appointment are critical to your long-term success in the job. SPOTLIGHT Parity and the Presidency Female college presidents gathered for a summit last month to talk about how far they've come, and how far they've yet to go. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. ALL IN THE GAME Say It Ain't So Stanley Fish laments the lost art of speaking and writing precisely. SPOTLIGHT The Accidental Career Many admissions deans say they fell into the field, and in the process, fell in love with it. THE FUND RAISERr A Fund Raiser's Lexicon For newcomers to the development office, Mark J. Drozdowski offers this primer on fund-raising lingo. MOVING UP The President's House Handling the potentially controversial decision of where a president lives. SPOTLIGHT Giving Back The new president of the University of Tennessee system secures a hefty financial package but pledges a $300,000 gift to the institution. FIRST PERSON Moving Abroad Before you pack your bags, you need to know a few things about accepting an administrative job overseas. ALL IN THE GAME Stop the Presses Why Stanley Fish continues talking to reporters, against his better judgment. SPOTLIGHT When a Search Falters Why has the search for a new president been suspended at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford? SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. SPOTLIGHT Leaving Early The chief of development at Northwestern U. leaves before its campaign ends to take the top fund-raising job at Brown U. FIRST PERSON The Reference Check Too often, when hiring committees call a candidate's references, they ask the wrong questions. THE FUND RAISER Jamming the Revolving Door How can colleges slow the turnover in their development offices? Pay commissions to fund raisers. SPOTLIGHT The Organizer Academics who can't seem to organize their research files and offices have another option: Hire someone to do it for them. MOVING UP Who's Really Paying? A lawyer who negotiates presidential contracts looks at the practice of foundations' supplementing executive salaries at public institutions. FIRST PERSON Rejecting a Tenure-Track Future Early on, Patty Payette began to see that her Ph.D. in the humanities could lead to more than just a teaching job. SPOTLIGHT Talking Privately A look at the role that little-known associations play in helping administrators do their jobs. ALL IN THE GAME Were It Not for My ... ... wife, husband, partner, mother, dog, or flower garden. Stanley Fish ruminates on the reasons job candidates turn down offers. FIRST PERSON Hits and Misses A department chairman tallies his regrets and his successes in handling this year's job search. FIRST PERSON A Lame Duck President A college president leaving office this summer considers her options and what she would have done differently. SPOTLIGHT What They Make A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public colleges and universities. SPOTLIGHT 2 Presidencies, 1 Marriage Two college presidents who are married to each other and work in the same town had the perfect arrangement. Then a better job came along. THE FUND RAISER Does It Matter if You're Not an Alum? Mark J. Drozdowski begins a new column on careers in university fund raising and development. FIRST PERSON My Brilliant Administrative Career Douglas Schriber takes issue with the notion of administrative staff members as second-class citizens in academe. MOVING UP Executive Searches Search committees and candidates face special issues in hiring senior executives for religious institutions. FIRST PERSON Becoming a President As a department chairman, Michael Lewis knew he probably didn't have a shot at a college presidency. But he applied anyway. ALL IN THE GAME Is Everything Political? It may be on some general level, says Stanley Fish, but that doesn't tell you much. MS. MENTOR Mean Committees Search committees often have bad manners, Ms. Mentor counsels, but they rarely hate you. FIRST PERSON In the Interim Interim administrators are stand-ins for the real thing. But that doesn't mean they can't make a difference. SPOTLIGHT Where Should the President Live? Seeking privacy, the new president of the University of Vermont opts to live off campus, and ends up angering students and taxpayers. SPOTLIGHT What They Earn A look at the salaries and benefits paid to five recently appointed presidents at public institutions. FIRST PERSON Beware of Becoming Your Résumé The last thing Mark J. Drozdowski wanted was to be typecast, defined more by what he had done than by what he hoped to do. MOVING UP How Faculty Members Think Milton Greenberg offers an administrator's guide to the faculty mind. FIRST PERSON The Best Job on Campus Karen Riedel thinks she's got it, and it doesn't involve tenure or hefty salaries. SPOTLIGHT Student Affairs The job of vice president for student affairs is no longer an end in itself but can lead to a presidency. ALL IN THE GAME You Probably Think This Song Is About You Unhappy departments, writes Stanley Fish, are each unhappy in their own way. FIRST PERSON Presidential Transitions The new president of Wilson College, and her predecessor, took an unusual step: They worked together. BALANCING ACT The Backlash Against Academic Parents Outdated assumptions about the ideal worker undermine people's efforts to integrate their work life with their personal life. SPOTLIGHT Hiring Their Friends Is it cronyism when new presidents hire their friends for senior staff jobs? SPOTLIGHT Back to the Faculty Can a dean ever really go back to being a faculty member? MOVING UP Self-Inflicted Wounds Jean Dowdall looks at how presidential search committees sometimes undermine their own efforts. FIRST PERSON The Death of Creativity The research-university model has killed creativity in the humanities and social sciences, writes James M. Jasper. SPOTLIGHT The Art of Giving Princeton University looks outside the professional fund-raising circuit to hire its new vice president for development. ALL IN THE GAME Keep Your Eye on the Small Picture Stanley Fish proposes a few administrative pieties that he would like to see banned from polite conversation. SPOTLIGHT An $83,000 Raise Trustees at Florida International University slashed the budget, but promised the president a big raise. FIRST PERSON Losing Status A former faculty member takes a staff position, and suddenly finds she no longer has a career -- just a job. CAREER TALK Answering Your Questions Do I have to return from a sabbatical? Readers get some answers to their career quandaries. SPOTLIGHT What Presidents Earn at 5 Public Colleges A look at what five new presidents earn at public colleges. FIRST PERSON The Job Interview Fresh from interviewing 30-plus candidates at the MLA, Dennis Baron looks at this rite of passage. FIRST PERSON Relationship Counseling Why is the relationship between professors and fund raisers so often a strained one? MOVING UP A Problem of Presentation Even the most promising administrative job candidates can fall short in a job interview. SPOTLIGHT The Search is On In a new feature, we track the names of institutions searching for presidents or provosts. SPOTLIGHT The State of Hiring How the recession has affected hiring at a regional state university in Tennessee, a community college in California, a liberal-arts college in Iowa, a public research university in Arizona, and a private research university in New York. ALL IN THE GAME Staying the Course Stanley Fish looks at the challenges of sustaining an institutional campaign to move up in the academic world. MS. MENTOR Academic Revenge Even the gentlest of academics, Ms. Mentor knows, harbor fantasies of revenge. FIRST PERSON Lonely at the Top? As a new college president, Kathryn Mohrman countered the isolation of leadership by creating her own council of confidential advisers. ACADEMIC ASSETS Continuing Care Advice for academics who plan to move into one of the many retirement communities springing up near college campuses. FIRST PERSON Stopping Grade Inflation The untenured faculty members who do most of the grading can do little about grade inflation if they want to keep their jobs. ACADEMIC ASSETS Continuing Care Advice for academics who plan to move into one of the many retirement communities springing up near college campuses. FIRST PERSON Latinos in Administration Roberto Haro says Latino men and women who seek jobs in the top echelons of campus administration are held to higher standards than members of other groups in the hiring process. ALL IN THE GAME Don't Do It Stanley Fish considers the suspect academic practice of soliciting outside offers and counteroffers. SPOTLIGHT Inaugural Hoopla How a university celebrates the inauguration of a new president reflects the personality of the new leader as much as the history of the institution. FIRST PERSON Calling Dr. Development With his Ph.D. finally in hand, Mark J. Drozdowski could have sought a faculty career. Instead he's staying put in the strange world of college fund raising. SPOTLIGHT Going the Distance If you're an administrator in distance education, what are your odds of moving into the top ranks of traditional academic administration? Not good. ALL IN THE GAME Time to Pay Stanley Fish examines the new reality of operating in a time of scarcity. SPOTLIGHT Off the Beaten Career Path Graduate career counseling, a small but growing branch of student services, is creating job opportunities for some Ph.D.'s. MOVING UP A New Season of Job-Hunting Fall brings the largest set of administrative job ads of the year. Jean Dowdall offers advice on how to get started on your job search. ALL IN THE GAME The Golden Rule In a new column on the academic career, Stanley Fish counsels telling the truth as an administrative strategy. SPOTLIGHT Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Iowa, returns a $40,000 pay raise and shines a spotlight on the politics of presidential salaries. SPOTLIGHT Going to the Chapel Presidents who get married while in office find that the personal and the professional tend to get entangled. SPOTLIGHT Online Searches More and more presidential search committees are creating Web sites to share information about the process and even solicit nominations. MOVING UP Sabbatical Lessons Few colleges presidents take sabbaticals. Kathryn Mohrman did, and here's what she learned. MOVING UP Telling Key People that You're a Candidate Jean Dowdall offers tips on how to tell people on your current campus that you're a candidate for an administrative job elsewhere. MOVING UP Being a Chairman Milton Greenberg takes issue with the perception of the department chairmanship as a thankless job. SPOTLIGHT Go Ahead, Admit It: You Want to be an Administrator A look at how to make the leap from the professoriate to a career in campus administration. Also see: Academic Assets Advice about managing your money. All in the Game An inside look at academic careers, hiring, and culture by Stanley Fish. Moving Up Tips about advancing your career in campus administration. First Person Firsthand accounts of Ph.D.'s on landing jobs and working in academe, or outside the ivory tower. Copyright © 2007 by The Chronicle of Higher Education |
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