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Tuesday, October 25, 2016


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Students

Basic Training for Higher Ed premium

By Karin Fischer

Why colleges might look to the armed forces for guidance on serving low-income students.

Faculty

A Preordained Presidential Pick Gives Rise to a New Governance Battle premium

By Peter Schmidt

Georgia’s university system skipped a formal search in selecting a controversial state politician to run Kennesaw State University. Professors are fighting the move to keep it from happening again.

Campus Safety

Resident Assistants Find Themselves on the Front Lines of Title IX Compliance premium

By Shannon Najmabadi

College housing’s student workers have long been relied on to resolve roommate disputes, but the heightened enforcement of the federal gender-equity law has made them key reporters of sexual violence.

On Leadership

Video: A Former West Point Official Helps Mount St. Mary’s Find Its Footing

By Sarah Brown

Tim Trainor, interim president of the Roman Catholic institution in Maryland, says he needs to steady the ship, calm faculty fears, and rebuild trust after the tumultuous tenure of his predecessor.


Views


Special Reports

3 Easy Ways to Embrace High-Impact Learning

By Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Practices from the software-development world can be adapted to disrupt undergraduate education’s "seat time equals learning" model.

Career Counseling

It’s Time to Change What We Mean by ‘Credential’ premium

By Sean Gallagher

The way companies evaluate job candidates is evolving, and the certifications that liberal-arts colleges offer must evolve as well.

Lingua Franca

An Ill Wind That No One Blows Good

Geoff Pullum tracks the chaos of competing misattributions of a famous abusive description of a musical instrument.

Commentary

Bill Bowen: Man of Achievement

By Brian Rosenberg

He never stopped caring, and he never stopped being the most thoughtful and articulate voice on a host of issues central to our educational system and our civic life.


Advice


First Person

Tips for Managing Curmudgeons

By Alex Small

How to approach faculty members who find your administrative buzzwords insufferable.

Vitae

Mountain Climbing and Dissertation Writing

By Ariel Sophia Bardi

What an Everest climber taught me about surviving the post-Ph.D. blues.


Job Opportunities


Medicine Department Chair (Assistant/Associate Professor), University of Illinois College of Medicine
Illinois, United States

Humanities and Social Science Faculty Search, Washington University in St. Louis
Missouri, United States

Assistant Professor of Clinical Social Work, University of Nevada, Reno
Nevada, United States

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania, United States

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania, United States

Assistant Teaching Professor of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego
California, United States

Chair Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership, University of Memphis
Tennessee, United States

Historian of Pre-Colonial West Africa , The University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, United States

Tools & Resources


The Professor Is In!
Dear Readers: Have a question about the academic job market that you'd like to see answered on Vitae? Send it to The Professor Is In! Karen welcomes any and all questions related to the job market, preparing for the job market while in graduate school, coping with the adjunct struggle, and assistant professorhood. Send questions to gettenure@gmail.com.


Your Guide to the Ins and Outs of Negotiating in Academe
Kudos on having an offer in hand. But that’s just the starting point for negotiations. Our experts tell you how to weigh the terms and broker a better outcome. Download it here.


A New Podcast on the Future of Education
The education landscape is changing. On The Chronicle's Re:Learning podcast, you’ll meet the renegade teachers, ed-tech entrepreneurs, longtime educators, and others shaping the future of college. To keep up with new episodes, subscribe on iTunes — and please review the show there as well.