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Research, Teaching and Researching Teachers
My dissertation influences my teaching not so much through its content but by the lessons I learned writing it, says Peter Wayne Moe.
The Third-Year Review Blues
It can be challenging to receive criticism, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore, but it can also provide an opportunity to discern the difference between how you believe things should be and how they actually are.
Reevaluating Teaching Evaluations
Talk to any instructor about student evaluations, and our shared unease is almost universally immediate, writes Annelise Heinz, who provides three basic recommendation to improve the evaluation process.
Public Profiles and Job Searches
For graduate students, the academic job market requires you to develop a coherent public profile that isn’t inscrutable to the people you’d like to work with, writes James M. Van Wyck.
Becoming an Alt-Ac Sex Educator, Part III
The many interconnections of sexuality with life in and around universities should concern all of us, regardless of orientation, relationship status or gender identity, argues Jeana Jorgensen.
Finding Pleasure in Academe
We can savor the good in our work in a number of ways, write Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra, who list seven distinct facets of academic life worth treasuring.
Leading Without a Title
How can you effectively lead people when you don't have formal authority over them? Elizabeth Suárez provides advice.
Stress and Student Success
We in higher education now serve more students with more stress than ever before, yet we have done little to learn about the strategies to help them better manage it, argues Karen Costa.