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Reflections on the Invisible Labor of Online Teaching
Given the rightful fear and anxiety that our students are feeling, online instruction has opened a portal for them to seek therapy-like consultations from professors, writes Irina Popescu.
You Can’t Kill It With Kindness
Basic decency and treating people better isn’t going to get at the core issues of what makes job hunting so demoralizing and damaging for most recent Ph.D. graduates, Zeb Larson contends.
Career Exploration Through the Lens of Equity
We need equity-minded scholars now more than ever, writes Deborah S. Willis, and she shares some practical strategies for how to become one.
Dear DEI People: Your Black Colleagues Are Waiting
Courtney N. Wright asks, why aren't more administrators who say they support diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives reaching out to their black colleagues now?
Doctoral Dysfunction
Many doctoral students today are tending to fall into one of two disturbing categories: academic technician or justice warrior, writes David F. Labaree.
Should We Do Away With Office Hours?
The ways and extent to which students expect faculty members to be accessible has been undergoing a recognizable shift in recent years, writes Jennifer L. Brinkley.
Academic Advising in a Pandemic and Beyond
Given academe will probably change fundamentally in the future, academic advising should clearly reconsider and define its role, writes Eric R. White.
Applying Your Ph.D. Knowledge to Alt-Ac Careers
The skills you’ve learned are vital, but so is the actual subject-matter expertise you’ve gained, argues Dan Moseson.