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Establishing Rapport in the Classroom
Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra provide suggestions for how faculty members can best connect with students in class.
How to Illustrate Your Career Readiness Competencies
As many grad students approach the end of their academic programs, they realize they’ve forgotten how to talk about their strengths and skills to different types of employers. Joseph Barber provides advice.
Research on the Margins
J. Sumerau provides advice to researchers who find themselves studying groups or phenomena missing -- mostly or entirely -- from the current scientific literature.
5 Myths About Nice Academics
Being perceived as nice has perks, writes Melissa Nicolas, but it can create troubling misconceptions about who we are and how we should act.
Creating a Campus Mentoring Program
Kerry Ann Rockquemore suggests six questions to ask yourself in order to create a lean and workable program.
Writing After War
A veteran struggling to resume civilian life in a classroom filled mostly with last spring's high school graduates can teach us all a lot, writes Alice Montclair.
Tailgating as Networking
Katharyn L. Stober describes how and why you should use tailgating and football lingo in your job search.
A Queer Confession
A.W. Strouse tells a cautionary tale about how academe turned him into a gay conservative.