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What Is a Colleague?
No campus is an island, none of us stands alone. Maria Shine Stewart offers various definitions of a word often used and rarely discussed.
Teaching Generation Z
Eliza Woolf wonders what to make of students who seem disengaged from class and then give her great evaluations.
The Alt-Ac Track
Graduate students en route to Ph.D.s can simultaneously prepare themselves for well-paying non-faculty jobs in higher education, write Brenda Bethman and C. Shaun Longstreet.
Bridging the Cross-Cultural Divide
Katherine Haley on how colleges can ensure that faculty members and trustees work together effectively on presidential search committees.
The Active Interview
Even if you aren't asking the questions, you can guide the conversation, writes Katherine Ellison.
Fatherhood and Academic Life
When a father is the one balancing work and family duties, not everyone in academe is supportive or even understands, writes Matt Fotis.
Personal and Professional Boundaries
Academics ask all kinds of questions and make all kinds of judgments about parts of colleagues' or potential colleagues' lives that are irrelevant to their jobs, writes Nate Kreuter. He says it's time to stop.
Interviews at Teaching Colleges
It's time to set your research aside and to think about the undergraduate classroom, writes John Fea.