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Ask the Chair: ‘How Do You Get Professors to Respond in the Summer?’
A timely question this month as department heads eagerly anticipate the “summer break.” -
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Why Is There No Training on How to Teach Graduate Students?
When you follow the graduate-school money, it leads to faculty offices, not student needs. -
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Multitasking Is the Enemy of Academic Productivity
Faculty members pay a price for all that juggling of research, teaching, and service. -
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‘They Need Us to Be Well’
The surprising recipe for building students’ emotional well-being in the classroom? Rest and joy — for professors. -
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5 Lessons for Higher Ed’s Least Powerful Administrators
What department chairs can learn about leadership from Everything Everywhere All at Once. -
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The Provost Files: How to Hire New Deans
Seven steps every provost should take in overseeing a leadership search. -
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My Unexpected Cure for Burnout
Or, how to declutter an officeful of books and maybe restore your love of teaching, too. -
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Scholars Talk Writing: Roxane Gay
“Allow yourself to be terrified to take risks and take those risks anyway.” -
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‘Help! My Dissertation Supervisor Is Smothering Me!’
Advice from an academic-productivity expert on how to cope with poor advising from your mentor. -
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Ask the Chair: How to Organize a Useful Retreat
A new dean asks for advice on what to include in a retreat for department heads.