A RAND Corporation survey estimates 65 percent of Americans have a chronic illness of some sort, and 20 to 30 percent of working-age adults in many states are considered disabled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More...
Don’t Be a Conference Room Hog
As academe works to make conferences more accessible and humane, it's a pervasive problem that's also easy to fix, writes Jonathan Beecher Field. More...
How Faculty Can Help Student Parents Succeed
Larissa M. Mercado-López offers advice for how faculty members can better support student who are parents as well as those who are caregivers in other ways. More...
How to Run a Meeting
Meetings are a great equalizer -- they subject nearly everyone to needless suffering, writes Stephen J. Aguilar, who offers advice for making them more productive. More...
Planning to Leave?
Perhaps you’ve recognized reasons you’re being pushed or pulled outside higher ed. Perhaps you’ve engaged in career discernment, gaining clarity about next directions. More...
Peer Review Reviewed
In trying to get her students to care about writing, Rachel Wagner decided that she had to get them to care about editing. More...
A Marathon, Not a Sprint
Career centers across the country struggle with last-minute job searchers -- i.e., seniors and graduate and postdoctoral trainees in their final quarter or semester who need jobs right away. More...
Warning to Physician Faculty
Our academic freedom may be at stake, writes Julie Kim, if most of our paycheck is controlled by a hospital that is affiliated with but not owned by the institution. More...
Technology in the Classroom: What the Research Tells Us
Fans and foes of letting students use laptops and phones in class hold fervent views. Jordan Troisi and Aaron Richmond suggest acting based on research instead -- and offer recommendations. More...
Ordinary Education in Extraordinary Times
Despite all the changes going on outside campuses -- and often, in fact, because of them -- our traditional educational practices have never been more important, writes Michael S. Roth. More...