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Thursday, October 4, 2018


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What Professors Think: a Chronicle Survey


Faculty

The Best and Worst Part of Being a Professor: Students premium

By Audrey Williams June

Teaching is the aspect of the job that the largest share of professors find satisfying, a Chronicle survey shows. But students are also a major source of stress.

Data

How Faculty Members View Students

What are the most satisfying parts of the job? The most challenging? Here’s what we learned.


Also in Today’s News


Publishing

‘Sokal Squared’: Is Huge Publishing Hoax ‘Hilarious and Delightful’ or an Ugly Example of Dishonesty and Bad Faith?

By Alexander C. Kafka

A trio’s systematic trolling of journals yields seven accepted papers, including a study of canine rape culture in Portland, Ore., dog parks and a feminist rewrite of a chapter of Mein Kampf.

From the Archives

Anatomy of a Hoax premium

An oral history by Jennifer Ruark

How the physicist Alan Sokal hoodwinked a group of humanists and why, 20 years later, it still matters.

Teaching

5 Tips for Using Multiple-Choice Tests to Bolster Learning

By Beckie Supiano

A new study finds that the same best practices that make an exam an effective assessment also deepen students’ understanding.

Campus Assault

Rutgers President Scraps 2-Year Limit on Sexual-Misconduct Complaints

By Steven Johnson

In practice, the university didn’t always hold to the policy, its leaders say. But several women say their complaints were rejected or never acknowledged.

Re:Learning

Graduates Are Told They Can Do Anything With Their Degrees. Is That Why They Feel Lost?

By Scott Carlson

For many privileged students at well-regarded institutions, the march toward a credential doesn’t include much time for technical training or reflection on career paths. That’s a problem, and the stakes are high.

Students

Create a ‘Personal Brand,’ and Other Tips Learned During a Day With a Recruiter

By Julia Schmalz

“It’s more than just knowing just a little bit about a company.” A recruiter gives advice on how to get employers to take notice of your students.


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Views


The Chronicle Review

How Students Learned to Stop Worrying — and Love Being Spied On premium

By David Rosen and Aaron Santesso

We’ve arrived at a moment that could forever change the academy’s role in training citizens.

Advice

The Professor Is In: How to Discourage Sycophancy in Graduate School

By Karen Kelsky

Deflect your doctoral students’ excessive praise by emphasizing that academe is a workplace — not a holy order.

Lingua Franca

‘Different Than’ or ‘Different From’: Which Should You Say?

Ben Yagoda analyzes 26 sentences from spoken English, and who said them, to reach a conclusion.


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Job Opportunities


Multiple Faculty Positions, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
North Carolina, United States

Vice President for Finance and Administration, Lander University
South Carolina, United States

Provost and Academic Vice President, University of St. Francis
Illinois, United States

Tenure-track and Multi-year Term Positions, Middlebury College
Vermont, United States

Associate Dean for Academic Services, Western Michigan University
Michigan, United States

Clearing Corporation Chair in Food and Agricultural Marketing, Purdue University
Indiana, United States

Lecturer, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University
New Jersey, United States

Associate Professor/Full Professor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Georgia, United States

Visiting Professor/Lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
New Jersey, United States

Associate or Full Professor, Department of French Literature, New York University Arts and Science
New York, United States

Faculty Director, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
District of Columbia, United States

Full Professor (Tenured) and Department Chair, Department Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Texas, United States

Experienced Tenure-Track Position in Strategy, Harvard Business School
Massachusetts, United States

Assistant Professor in Modern Hebrew Literature, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University Arts and Science
New York, United States

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