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What I’ve Learned From Ungrading

Robert Talbert shares the results of his experiment over the past semester with this approach to assessing and reporting on student learning.

2 Biases That Can Stall Your Career Advancement

Kristi DePaul describes those biases and provides advice on how you can overcome them.

How Do You Tell Your Story?

Grad students must articulate how their skills and experiences relate to their career goals, but they often focus on what they’ve achieved rather than the journey that led to it, writes Salvatore Cipriano.

Academe, Hear Me. I Am Crying Uncle.

My workload crisis has not only personal but also systemic causes, writes an anonymous professor, and I’ve come to see that the only way to survive in my job is to declare academic Chapter 11.

Bashers Versus Swoopers

Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley explains what advice about graduate writing gets wrong and why you should focus on practices that best fit your instincts and style.

Grade Inflation Deserves an A

As an instructor, Candy Lee asks, if a student, working diligently, hasn’t managed to grasp a subject, whose fault is it—theirs or mine?

Tackling the Stack

As the academic year comes to an end, Daniel Cole offers some tips for how to grade student essays efficiently and with integrity.

Professors, Stop Telling Your Students Not to Get Ph.D.s

You may inadvertently discourage students from marginalized backgrounds, for whom it may be the perfect path—and who most need your help simply to navigate the process, argues Karly Ball.