Recent Highlights From The Chronicle and Vitae
By Josh Boldt Find a marketable talent that is specific enough to limit your competition but still has a big enough client base to grow.
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By Karen Kelsky You can try, but the conditions under which you will succeed are fairly narrow.
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By Terry McGlynn You need to talk about assigning credit — before the research project gets started.
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By Leonard Cassuto Part 2 in a series on how to pick the professor who will guide your dissertation.
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By Kristen Ghodsee It wasn’t until I took a sabbatical overseas that I realized how deeply ingrained workaholism is in the American psyche.
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By Carrie J. Preston Why I began to rethink my views on classroom decorum.
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By Karyn Lacy Why the content of your job talk matters less than how you handle the Q&A afterward.
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My top five books on teaching.
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By Rob Kramer How to plan a faculty and staff retreat that people will actually find valuable.
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Also in our weekly roundup of conversations from The Chronicle’s discussion forums: hiring-committee hijinks; charting a path to administration; how to respond to students who ask you to review what they missed in class.
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