First Person
An Underclass Is Educating Your Children
Many urban graduate students forgo food, health insurance, sanity, and vacations so they can dedicate themselves to learning to teach.
On Hiring
- Accounting for the Professoriate
- Pending the Money
- Small Colleges and Their Struggle to Recruit Business Professors
- Neither Fish nor Fowl?
- Faculty Work/Administrative Work
Peer Review
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For the Chancellor of a New Online Campus, Every Workday Is About Branding
Allison Barber, who once worked for the Defense Department, now spends her days trying to find adults in underserved groups to enroll in WGU Indiana.
- A Federal Judge's Tough Decision: Leaving the Bench to Lead a Campus
- A Professor Studies How African-American Religions Affect Media and Culture
In the Forums
Heavy Load
How common is a 6/6 teaching load at community colleges?
The First Day of Class Is Not a Blow-Off
A professor wishes advisers would stop telling her students that it's fine to miss the first day of class because "we don't do anything" on that day.
Fact or Fiction?
Academics share their favorite urban legends about campus design and architecture.
Interview Horror Stories
Did your interview go badly? Buck up. It could have been a lot worse.
Job-Market Check-In Thread
Share information about how your search is progressing.
Great Colleges to Work For, 2010
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97 Colleges Recognized in Chronicle Survey
In spite of the country's economic troubles, colleges remain sought-after places to work, the third annual Great Colleges to Work For survey found.
- But Why Are They Great?
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Latest Articles
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Resolve: Stop Saying Yes
The drug of flattery can lead us to say yes to tasks that we have neither the time nor the resources to do.
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4 Steps to a Memorable Teaching Philosophy
How do you write a teaching statement that doesn't sound exactly like everybody else's?
- From Graduate Student to Faculty Member
- Welcome to My Classroom
- Message in a Bottle
- From Ph.D. to Self-Employed Consultant
- Internationalizing the Academic Career
- Why Universities Reorganize
- Being Nice or Getting the Job Done
- Dos and Don'ts for the In-Person Interview
- A Short Recent History of American Capitalism
- Your First Search-Committee Gig
- What's in a Name?
- Getting Real at the Natural-History Museum, Part 2
- My Journey From Industry to Academe
More Advice
From the Archives
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The Womanly Art of Negotiation
The last thing she wanted to do was negotiate like a girl and accept a low-ball offer.
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What Deans Expect of Department Heads
Here are ways to make 'the toughest job in the university' a little easier
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Summer Prep for New Teachers
The season of panic approaches for those faculty members entering the college classroom for the first time.
First Time on the Market?
Going on the academic job market for the first time? Here are some things you should know.
