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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.
Postdoc Pay: A Women's Issue
If universities want to retain more female academic scientists, it's time to increase postdoc salaries, writes Jennifer Bussell.
Entrepreneurial and Innovative
Amid so much change in higher education, Terri E. Givens writes that just as faculty critique questionable ideas, they also need to do more to share how they are using new strategies and experimenting to improve teaching and research.
Congratulations! Now What?
Eric Goldman has 10 suggestions for newly tenured professors.