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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
In higher education institutions, faculty of color are professionally and mentally stretched. Dwayne A. Mack provides practical strategies to achieve a better work-life balance and avoid burnout.
At the Intersection of Privilege and Precarity
The precarity of contingent faculty members limits their ability to make important structural changes in the academy, including responding to student demands for racial justice, writes Michelle Kweder.
“This Course Is Racist (Toward Whites)!”
Roksana Badruddoja writes an open letter to her students, à la Shannon Gibney, Saida Grundy and Zandria F. Robinson.
Advice From an Outlaw Writer
You don't have to follow the traditional advice to improve and enjoy your writing, says Jane Ward.
On Being Peter Pan
A gender studies scholar at a public university describes why he has not come out as transgender to his students.
Speaking With, Not For
If our research never gets out of the ivory tower, then who is it helping, asks Jackson Wright Shultz.
Three Rules for Email
In order for email to have less control over your life, you need to start to take control of it, argues Tanya Golash-Boza.
Unfriending Friends
Being a minority of any kind in academe can be difficult, writes Manya Whitaker. But you can be much happier if you don't force relationships with people whom you are not naturally inclined to befriend.