Time for Growth
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Can the ‘Pitch Deck’ Help Academics?
You can opt to bore your audience silly with dense PowerPoint slides — or, you can adapt a popular business technique to better make your case. -
Do You Really Need to Hire a Career Coach?
How to be a discerning consumer in the growing marketplace of academic coaching and consulting.
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Beyond Productivity Hacks and Time-Management Tricks
How coaching can help professors to “flourish in place.” -
7 Tips for Scholars on Writing for Nonacademics
To reach a wider audience, try to unlearn a few habits. -
10 Ways to Better Manage Your Meetings
A new academic year means lots and lots of meetings. Here’s how to make them more productive and less contentious.
From Chronicle Intelligence
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Managing Higher Ed’s Modern Work Force
ON DEMAND: In a national survey by The Chronicle, 57 percent of administrators said their colleges lacked policies and systems to govern a contemporary workplace. Join us to discuss what provosts, deans, and department chairs can do to improve employee morale and related issues. With Support From ModernThink. Watch on demand
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Faculty Resources
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Advice
‘They Need Us to Be Well’
The surprising recipe for building students’ emotional well-being in the classroom? Rest and joy — for professors. -
Skill Development
The Scholarly Skill Almost No One Is Teaching
A distinct lack of training in peer review has worsened the crisis in academic publishing. -
Self Improvement
How to Cope With Presentation Anxiety
Here’s how a professor and experienced public speaker has learned to deal with the academic version of stage fright.
Administrative and Staff Resources
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Managing
The Case for Requiring Professional Development
Investing in your people shows that you value them, which encourages them to stay and give you their best work. -
Diversity
How to Make Room for Neurodivergent Professors
Seventeen years into his career, a faculty member finds out he is autistic. It explains a lot, he says. -
Transitioning
Careers on the Staff Track: How to Start a Job Transition
A new series will explore the professional paths and challenges of staff members in higher education.
