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Ready for Retirement?
Professors approaching the end of their careers say that they are ready financially, survey finds, but relatively few have figured out their needs. And younger faculty know they don't have it figured out.
TMI From Professors
If you want your students to behave in class, focus on your credibility, and avoid self-deprecation, study suggests.
Opinion
'Learn to Write Badly'
Sociologist's new book explores time-tested techniques for avoiding potentially inconvenient risk of being understood. Scott McLemee foregrounds the opportunity spaces for discursive practice.
No Aid, No Problem
UniversityNow signs up more than 1,000 students for low-cost, competency-based degree programs without the lure of federal financial aid.
Union Impact and Non-Impact
Study comparing grad students with and without collective bargaining for their teaching work finds that those with unions have better pay, and that they are just as close to their professors as those on other campuses.
Shift on Grad Unions
NYU offers to permit election on collective bargaining for teaching assistants, but not for research assistants. Move marks shift for university, but union leader says it is based on "arbitrary distinctions."
Grappling With Global Learning
At gathering focused on global learning, faculty and others discuss diverse strategies for integrating it within the curriculum.
Not a Retirement Club
With many professors balking at giving up their intellectual homes, some institutions create emeritus colleges.