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Teaching About Sexuality, Violence and Power

When the alleged perpetrator is a person with whom we feel some sort of affiliation or reverence, we start to make excuses and bend over backward to deny the plausibility of the victim’s experience, writes Jamie L. Small.

Speaking Out as an Untenured Professor

Faculty members without tenure have to weigh issues of silence and voice against the hope and need for job security. Deborah J. Cohan gives advice on how to navigate it all.

4 Expert Strategies for Designing an Online Course

Steps for success include involving the learner, making collaboration work, devising a consistent structure and revising based on evaluation.

Caught Between Constituencies

How can you as a senior administrator best handle situations in which you're caught between important constituencies with very conflicting demands? Barbara McFadden Allen, Robin Kaler and Ruth Watkins explore a hypothetical situation along those lines.

Can’t or Won’t: The Culture of Helplessness

We might provide the most detailed of instructions, but students will still find a reason to challenge those instructions as inadequate and shift the responsibility of the work to us, writes Lori Isbell.

Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Mentor

Pallavi Eswara raises the most important ones -- and also provides some answers.

Teaching Rape Culture

Helping students become familiar with the concept of rape culture provides an opportunity for them to recognize their own values and beliefs in action, writes Cat Pausé.

Balancing Leadership and Life

It’s possible to be an excellent administrative leader and still find time for leisure, health and social connections, write Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist, and here’s how.