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Ask the Administrator: What Makes a Good Job Talk?
A new correspondent writes: I wonder if you'd consider posting a query to your readers about job talk expectations at...
Milestones
The Boy and The Girl are hitting new milestones. Last week we took them to a local park, where Santa...
Ask the Administrator: Go or Stay?
A new correspondent writes: I am a graduate student at a state school with a pretty decent reputation. Although I'm...
Edifice Complex
Enough with the freakin' buildings, already. Apparently, the American Council on Education (along with some other groups) is wasting no...
"It's Just a Job" vs. "We're All in This Together"
Okay, I'm a little late to this party, but there's been a fascinating exchange in blogland between Tenured Radical and...
The One Way We Still Get to Hire...
is for grant-funded positions. But hiring for grant-funded positions is different than regular hiring. Grant-funded positions exist in a parallel...
Quote of the Day
From yesterday's New York Times article about the faculty at the New School passing a vote of no confidence in...
Buying Low
Apparently, the proprietary colleges are in the midst of another of their periodic booms, swooping in and grabbing students just...