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Up for Tenure, Facing Depression
Monica A. Coleman reflects on how she achieved academic success while dealing with severe mental illness.
Interview Attitudes
Ellen Spertus discusses what you want to project to a hiring committee -- and what you want to look for.
Nominating Your Evaluators
Elizabeth Simmons offers a dean's perspective on how faculty members up for tenure should approach deal with the process of identifying external evaluators.
Apply for Your First Grant
Russ Olwell offers advice on how arts and humanities faculty members can achieve his suggestion for a New Year's resolution.
10 Bad Habits
Academics who become administrators need to unlearn behaviors they embraced as faculty members, writes Robert J. Sternberg.
Go Native, Be Happy
Nate Kreuter writes about his frustrations with academics who look down on the communities where they teach.
Rx for Foot-in-Mouth Disease
What should you do when you feel like bursting the cartoon bubble over your colleague’s head? Or your own? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, Maria Shine Stewart prescribes.
The Missing Guidance
The best mentoring colleges could provide junior faculty members would be to offer clear guidelines for tenure and promotion, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore.