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The Humanities’ Scholarly Infrastructure Is in Utter Disarray
The lifeblood of humanities scholarship—peer review, scholarly publishing, journal editorship, even the professional meeting—is struggling. This doesn’t bode well for the humanities’ future.
A Hard ‘Soft’ Skill
Self-awareness is not evenly distributed.
Build Your Résumé From the Bones Up
Taking a fresh look at how you tell your workplace story may help renew your zest for research, affirm your value and steer you in the right direction, Victoria McGovern writes.
It’s Time to End Legacy Admissions
It favors wealthy, white applicants, writes Alan B. Morrison.
A New Mind-Set for Recruiting Chinese Students
With pandemic lockdowns straining family budgets, it’s time for colleges to adopt a more inclusive strategy for recruiting and admitting Chinese students, Xiaofeng Wan writes.
3 Questions About the Scaled Online iMBA
A conversation with colleagues at the University of Illinois.
Removing Barriers to Entry
Lindsay Hansen Brown outlines what you can do to stand out when applying for an academic library job.
Friday Fragments
On being ignored by the Times, responses to the parent coordinator, ways to end meetings and an idiosyncratic definition of emergency.