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Vocational Training

There’s so much wisdom available these days on how to approach career diversity for PhDs in the humanities, arts and related fields. And there are a lot of models and best practices have emerged over the last ten years, offering both faculty and students a range of options and approaches to the...

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What Faculty and Advisors Can Do

The current higher education landscape presents as many challenges as it does opportunities, which can make it daunting to decide where to direct reform efforts. In this chapter and the one that follows, I use the context and arguments of previous chapters to begin building an action plan. First, I...

Are You My Community?
“Community” is a popular word these days, due significantly to our community organizer in chief and his heavily publicized references to a wide range of communities from the international to the online.