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How to Attend a Conference
You don't have to sit through boring presentations, writes Nate Kreuter, but you do need to think strategically.
Climate Change
Interested in making your department more inclusive? Elizabeth Simmons and Ramón S. Barthelemy offer suggestions for improving the climate for LGBT colleagues and students.
Your First Academic Job -- II
William Helmreich explains how to excel in an interview.
Your First Academic Job - I
William Helmreich offers an insider's tips on how to get the all crucial interview.
Summer Retooling
This is the perfect time to rethink the courses you teach, writes Nate Kreuter. He offers advice on evaluating feedback so you can develop the best new plan.
Teaching in the Amateur Hour
Professors -- especially senior ones -- should challenge themselves by teaching in multidisciplinary programs that force them outside their intellectual comfort zones, writes Michael Nelson.
Take This Advice and ...
If you are starting off an academic career, you need to listen to the experiences and ideas of others, but also need to know when to ignore them, writes Rachel Leventhal-Weiner.
Tweets from the Ivory Tower
Jack Schneider didn't think Twitter could possibly improve his scholarly work. But a challenge from a colleague led him to experiment, and he explains why it's now part of his public engagement.