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Thursday, August 7, 2008
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| News & Advice
The Two-Year Track
Some regional accrediting agencies have relaxed their standards for faculty
credentials at two-year colleges — or have they?
Careers News
Conflict between the inventor of a medicine for dry eyes and the university
where she worked highlights the pitfalls in commercialization of academic
discoveries.
First Person
A Ph.D. in the sciences loses his complacency and rediscovers his confidence
in his search for a tenure-track position.
The Fund Raiser
Why it's important for all fund-raising campaigns to follow the lead of the
big ones and stress results, not need.
First Person
A Ph.D. tries to reconcile the profession he glamorized as a child with the
one he is living on the tenure track.
An Academic in America
A cartload of recent books suggests that it's time to reverse the
customer-service mentality plaguing academe.
First Person
The economy can be a cruel mistress, particularly, it seems, to a performing
artist.
First Person
After 35 years of meetings and memos, an administrator mulls leaving the
management track.
First Person
A moment of minor irritation at a student's dumb question can make for major
aggravation.
First Person
A tenured professor accustomed to going about her own business finds herself
suddenly responsible for others in a summer institute.
First Person
Sick of mediocre students and feeling stuck on the job, a professor turns to
music to self-medicate.
First Person
If we had to make up a story for why you might be interested in our
position, then interviewing you was too risky.
Ms. Mentor
Advice on how best to dress, and act, when you look as young as your
students.
On Course
The season of panic approaches for those faculty members entering the
college classroom for the first time.
The Adjunct Track
Why adjunct faculty members don't feel like part of the academic division.
Heads Up
Go ahead, submit a long, gossipy rant against your chairman, but prepare to
be ignored.
First Person
Three assistant professors find the going tough in their first year on the
tenure track.
Career News
Here's what to consider in drafting a sound maternity-leave plan for faculty
members.
Career News
College workers in midcareer are most likely to express negative feelings about their jobs, The Chronicle's first extensive survey of college workplaces has found.
Career Talk
Our experts evaluate the CV's of three faculty-job candidates and an administrator seeking to move up.
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Naked Ambition Dressing for the Interview Read a special report on how colleges are working to diversify their faculties and staffs. ForumsNew Topics
No-Go Situations
What lines will you absolutely not cross in your pursuit of an academic career?
Is This the Norm?
You got the job, and now an unsuccessful candidate wants to see your application materials.
Writing a Negative Book Review
An assistant professor, asked to review a book, finds it pretty awful and wonders how honest to be.
Dreading Fall Courses
Anyone else out there not looking forward to the courses you're scheduled to teach this fall?
Dissertators' support thread
Need help overcoming procrastination? Join a virtual support group for dissertation writers.
2008 tenure-track newbies
Starting assistant professors recount their joys and frustrations on the job.
The two-body problem
Talk about the challenges of being a dual-career couple in our new forum. Available Forums
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