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2 Reminders for a Productive Summer of Writing

You need to know that it will never go quite as planned and learn to lean into pleasure, advises Mary Anne Lewis Cusato.

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How Did You Get Here?

Matt Brim and Jessica Murray describe how having students write educational narratives can promote slow active learning.

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10 Things I’ve Learned as a New Administrator

Jennifer Snodgrass shares the key things that have helped guide her in shifting from the faculty to the administration, including putting her teaching skills to best use.

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Finding the Right Mentor at the Right Time

It could be just what you need to take the next step in your career journey, and identifying and working with one is easier than you might think, writes Shailee Koranne.

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3 Budget-Free Ways to Support Faculty

Michelle Pautz, Jessica Dewey and Martha Diede describe what faculty members have said is most frustrating about their jobs and how administrators can better support them in small yet impactful ways.

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A Title Does Not a Leader Make

A key question underlying the myriad challenges higher ed faces is whether we have people equipped to lead our institutions through those challenges, Vicki L. Baker writes.

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The Soft-Pants Effect

Monica Chrambach Kucich and Jenny Weil Malatras explore why our students are struggling and often disengaged—and then offer some advice on how we can help.

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Levels of Accuracy

As an academic, you are sometimes, maybe, kinda allowed to write simple declarative sentences, writes Rachel Toor.