By Jennifer Polk - From PhD to Life. I was recently chatting with a friend here in Toronto who’s ABD and looking for full-time employment. He told me that when he “buried his degree” on his resume — placed education last instead of closer to the top — that he’d received much better responses from potential employers. Previously, his applications hadn’t resulted in anything; now, he’d been on two interviews in the past month. This is an anecdote, but talking with him got me thinking about my own relationship with my resume. So did a Twitter chat I hosted last week on the topic of non-academic resumes. More...

By Vincent DeFrancesco. The Chronicle Book Club this month discussed What Is College For? The Public Purpose of Higher Education. Chronicle web producer Vincent DeFrancesco discussed issues raised by the book with the book’s editors, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and Harry Lewis. The chat took place on Thursday, April 24, at 10:20 a.m., U.S. Eastern time. More...

By Natalie Houston. Grading student assignments is a significant feature of many academics’ workload, especially as the end of semester nears. In the years since our first round up post, From the Archives: On Grading we’ve written quite a few useful posts about grading philosopies, tools, and approaches:
Philosophies and Methods
In Cross-Disciplinary Grading Techniques, Heather wrote about adopting humanities methods for grading open-ended assignments to her physics courses. More...

By Cathy Davidson. Last week, for the #FutureEd class where students are working in teams to design three very different institutions of higher education "from scratch" (i.e. no cake mix for these learning cupcakes please!), we each evaluated the three model universities from the perspective of "Would You Send Your Child to This Intitution?". More...