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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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Balancing Act
Is there any advantage to an academic's professional career from having children?
On Course
Consider starting a new charitable tradition and giving the gift of school supplies.
An Academic in America
If you teach a few hundred students a year, it seems only a matter of time before you run into a dangerous one.
First Person
A Ph.D. in history adds another graduate-school cliché to his collection.
Career Talk
In more and more disciplines, a postdoc is a critical first step toward an academic career.
Ms. Mentor
For academic bullies, being left alone -- a mix of shunning and solitary confinement -- is the ultimate punishment.
First Person
The pragmatic demands of academic life mean that church-related colleges can't always demonstrate compassionate Christianity.
First Person
She had hoped to be treated as a qualified academic, not as the female remainder of a partnership that fell apart.
Balancing Act
Here's a primer on how to approach your department with a request to work part-time.
Page Proof
Why does it seem like the only time undergraduates encounter 'literary nonfiction' is in composition courses?
The Party Line
As a government-relations officer, you get used to being blamed when things in the capitol go wrong.
Beyond the Ivory Tower
A humanities Ph.D. pursues a career in teaching and administration at a private school.
Career Talk
Our experts evaluate the CV's of three faculty-job candidates and an administrator seeking to move up.
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Grade complaints
Professors discuss their grade-appeal policies.
You're a community-college instructor if ...
A semi-humorous analysis of life as a community-college instructor.
Why you were not hired
Search-committee members share their reasons for rejecting job candidates.
Lessons from the fall semester
What have you learned this semester that you will take heed of in the future?
Spousal hires
Department chairs talk about how they address the issue of spousal hires.
Dissertators' support thread
Need help overcoming procrastination? Join a virtual support group for dissertation writers.
2007 tenure-track newbies
Starting assistant professors recount their joys and frustrations on the job. Available Forums
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